K993251 · Diagnostic Products Corp. · LIG · Nov 17, 1999 · Clinical Chemistry
Device Facts
Record ID
K993251
Device Name
IMMULITE 2000 VITAMIN B12, MODEL L2KVB2, L2KVB6
Applicant
Diagnostic Products Corp.
Product Code
LIG · Clinical Chemistry
Decision Date
Nov 17, 1999
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 862.1810
Device Class
Class 2
Indications for Use
IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 is for in vitro diagnostic use with the IMMULITE 2000 Analyzer - for the quantitative measurement of vitamin B12 in serum or heparinized plasma, as an aid in clinical diagnosis and treatment of anemia.
Device Story
The IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 is an automated chemiluminescent immunoassay system used in clinical laboratories. It processes patient serum or heparinized plasma samples. The assay involves a one-cycle sample treatment using dithiothreitol (DTT) and NaOH/KCN to release vitamin B12 from endogenous binding proteins. The treated sample is incubated with a vitamin B12-coated polystyrene bead, hog intrinsic factor (HIF), and an alkaline phosphatase-labeled anti-HIF antibody. A competitive binding reaction occurs where sample B12 competes with immobilized B12 for HIF binding sites. After a centrifugal wash to remove unbound conjugate, a phosphate ester of adamantyl dioxetane substrate is added. Alkaline phosphatase catalyzes the hydrolysis of the substrate, producing light. The luminometer measures photon output, which is inversely proportional to the vitamin B12 concentration in the sample. Healthcare providers use these quantitative results to assess vitamin B12 levels, aiding in the diagnosis and management of anemia and related nutritional deficiencies.
Clinical Evidence
Method comparison study performed on 166 patient serum samples comparing the IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 to the predicate IMMULITE Vitamin B12. Linear regression analysis yielded a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.937, with a regression equation of y = 0.95x - 34 pg/mL. Mean values were 400 pg/mL for the subject device and 457 pg/mL for the predicate.
Technological Characteristics
Chemiluminescent immunoassay; utilizes alkaline phosphatase-labeled anti-HIF antibody and phosphate ester of adamantyl dioxetane substrate. Solid phase consists of vitamin B12-coated polystyrene beads. Automated system performs centrifugal washing and luminometry. Operates via competitive binding principle. Designed for use with the IMMULITE 2000 Automated Immunoassay Analyzer.
Indications for Use
Indicated for the quantitative measurement of vitamin B12 in serum or heparinized plasma to aid in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of anemia in patients.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A vitamin B12 test system is a device intended to measure vitamin B12 in serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of anemias of gastrointestinal malabsorption.
Predicate Devices
IMMULITE® Vitamin B12
Submission Summary (Full Text)
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NOV 1 7 1999
K993251
## 510(k) Summary of Safety and Effectiveness
This summary of 510(k) safety and effectiveness information is being submitted in accordance with the requirements of SMDA 1990 and 21 CFR Part 807.92.
Name: Diagnostic Products Corporation Address: 5700 West 96th Street Los Angeles, California 90045-5597 (310) 645-8200 Telephone Number: (310) 645-9999 Facsimile Number: Contact Person: Edward M. Levine, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Affairs Date of Preparation: September 24, 1999 IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 Device Name: Reagent system for the determination of vitamin Trade: B12 in serum and heparinized plasma Catalog Number: L2KVB2 (200 tests); L2KVB6 (600 tests) Class II device, 75-CDD (21CFR 862.1810) Classification: Manufacturer: Diagnostic Products Corporation 5700 West 96th Street Los Angeles, California 90045-5597 DPC's Registration # is 2017183 Establishment Registration #: DPC's IMMULITE® Vitamin B12 Substantially Equivalent Predicate Device: IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 is a clinical device Description of Device: for use with the IMMULITE 2000 Automated Immunoassay Analyzer.
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# Intended Use of the Device:
IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 is for in vitro diagnostic use with the IMMULITE 2000 Analyzer - for the quantitative measurement of vitamin B12 in serum or heparinized plasma, as an aid in clinical diagnosis and treatment of anemia.
# Summary and Explanation of the Test:
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) and folate are nutrients essential to hematopoiesis. Megaloblastic anemia is almost always due to lack of one of these two vitamin B12 deficiency can also result in severe neurological impairment.
Circulating levels of vitamin B12 are usually a good index to tissue stores. That is, vitamin B12 levels as measured in serum or plasma by an optimized assay system are typically low in vitamin B12 deficiency, and normal or elevated otherwise. Exceptions to this rule can occur in those relatively uncommon situations where levels of vitamin B12 transport proteins are abnormal. Thus, low circulating vitamin B12 levels can occur in the absence of vitamin B12 deficiency where the level of transcobalamin I (a physiologically inactive transport protein) is low.
Conversely, vitamin B12 deficiency can occur in the presence of normal or even elevated plasma vitamin B12 levels where transcobalamin II levels are low or where levels of inactive vitamin B 12 transport proteins are high, as in chronic myelogenous leukemia. (Circulating folate levels are usually normal or elevated in vitamin B12 deficiency, but red cell folate levels are frequently low in this condition.)
Vitamin B12 deficiency occurs only rarely as a result of dietary lack of this vitamin. More commonly, it results from impaired absorption, as in partial or total gastrectomy, or in pernicious anemia, a condition characterized by absence or near absence of intrinsic factor. Since roughly two thirds of all patients with pernicious anemia have blocking antibodies to intrinsic factor (IFbAb), while IFbAb are only very rarely encountered in other situations, IFbAb determinations represent a useful follow-up test for the differential diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency. (Circulating intrinsic factor antibodies are present in more than half of all pernicious anemia patients. Increased transport protein levels can occur, for example in chronic myelogenous leukemia.)
Common causes of high vitamin B12 levels include liver disease, myeloproliferative disease (with chronic myelogenous leukemia as a special case) and the use of multivitamin supplements.
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# Performance Equivalence - Technology Comparison:
IMMULITE® and IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 are chemiluminescent immunoassays. The technology in DPC's IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 is a unique combination of technologies employed in previously cleared and commercially marketed DPC products.
The IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 assay begins with a one-cycle sample treatment of patient serum or plasma with dithiothreitol (DTT) and a sodium hydroxide/potassium cyanide solution (NaOH/KCN) in a reaction tube containing no bead. After a 30-minute incubation, the treated sample is transferred to a second reaction tube containing a vitamin B12-coated polystyrene bead, hog intrinsic factor (HIF) and an alkaline phosphatase-labeled antibody specific for HIF. During a 30-minute incubation, the vitamin B12 released from endogenous binding proteins during sample treatment competes with immobilized vitamin B12 for binding with HIF. Alkaline phosphatase-labeled anti-HIF antibody binds to HIF and is immobilized only if HIF is bound to the B12-coated bead. Unbound enzyme conjugate is removed by centrifugal wash. Substrate is added.
The chemiluminescent substrate, a phosphate ester of adamantyl dioxetane, undergoes hydrolysis in the presence of alkaline phosphatase to yield an unstable intermediate. The continuous production of this intermediate results in the sustained emission of light, thus improving precision by providing a window for multiple readings. The bound comblex - and thus also the photon output, as measured by the luminometer - is inversely proportional to the concentration of vitamin B12 in the sample.
IMMULITE® Vitamin B12 is a chemiluminescent version of the classic method for vitamin B12 radioassay, involving a preliminary heat denaturation step. Vitamin B12 in the patient sample is released from carrier proteins by incubation at 100 ℃ in the presence of dithiothreitol and potassium cyanide to inactivate vitamin B12-binding proteins, even at extreme levels, as well as antibodies to intrinsic factor.
After the heat denaturation step, the treated patient sample and purified hog intrinsic factor are simultaneously introduced into an IMMULITE® Test Unit containing a polystyrene bead coated with a B12 analog, and incubated for approximately 30 minutes at 37 ℃ with intermittent agitation. During this incubation, vitamin B12 in the treated sample competes with the B12 analog on the solid phase for a limited number of vitamin B12 binding sites on the purified intrinsic factor. (Endogenous vitamin B12 analogs do not interfere, because the binder is free of R-protein.) Alkaline phosphatase-labeled anti-hog intrinsic factor is introduced, and the Test Unit is incubated for another 30-minute cycle. The unbound enzyme conjugate is removed by a centrifugal wash.
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## Performance Equivalence - Technology Comparison (continued):
Substrate is then added, and the Test Unit is incubated for a further 10 minutes. The chemiluminescent substrate, a phosphate ester of adamantyl dioxetane, undergoes hydrolysis in the presence of alkaline phosphatase to yield an unstable intermediate. The continuous production of this intermediate results in the sustained emission of light, thus improving precision by providing a window for multiple readings. The bound complex - and thus also the photon output, as measured by the luminometer - is inversely proportional to the concentration of vitamin B12 in the sample.
#### Performance Equivalence - Method Comparison:
The IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 procedure was compared to DPC's IMMULITE® Vitamin B12 on 166 patient serum samples. Linear regression yielded the following results.
(IMMULITE® 2000) = 0.95 (IMMULITE®) - 34 pg/mL
r = 0.937
400 pg/mL (IMMULITE® 2000) Means: 457 pg/mL (IMMULITE®)
### Conclusion:
The data presented in this summary of safety and effectiveness is the data the Food and Drug Administration used in granting DPC substantial equivalence for IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12.
edward Lewis
Edward M. Levine, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Affairs
9/24/99
Date
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NOV 17 1999
Edward M. Levine, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Affairs Diagnostic Products Corporation 5700 West 96th Street Los Angeles, California 90045-5597
Re: K993251
> Trade Name: IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12 Regulatory Class: II Product Code: LIG Dated: September 24, 1999 Received: September 28, 1999
Dear Dr. Levine:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) notification of intent to market the device referenced above and we have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration.
If your device is classified (see above) into either class II (Special Controls) or class III (Premarket Approval), it may be subject to such additional controls. Existing major regulations affecting your device can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Parts 800 to 895. A substantially equivalent determination assumes compliance with the Current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements, as set forth in the Quality System Regulation (QS) for Medical Devices: General regulation (21 CFR Part 820) and that, through periodic OS inspections, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will verify such assumptions. Failure to comply with the GMP regulation may result in regulatory action. In addition, FDA may publish further announcements concerning your device in the Federal Register. Please note: this response to your premarket notification submission does not affect any obligation you might have under sections 531 through 542 of the Act for devices under the Electronic Product Radiation Control provisions, or other Federal laws or regulations.
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Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA-88), this device may require a CLIA complexity categorization. To determine if it does, you should contact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at (770) 488-7655.
This letter will allow you to begin marketing your device as described in your 510(k) premarket notification. The FDA finding of substantial equivalence of your device to a legally marketed predicate device results in a classification for your device and thus, permits your device to proceed to the market.
If you desire specific advice for your device on our labeling regulation (21 CFR Part 801 and additionally 809.10 for in vitro diagnostic devices), please contact the Office of Compliance at (301) 594-4588. Additionally, for questions on the promotion and advertising of your device, please contact the Office of Compliance at (301) 594-4639. Also, please note the regulation entitled, "Misbranding by reference to premarket notification"(21 CFR 807.97). Other general information on your responsibilities under the Act may be obtained from the Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance at its toll-free number (800) 638-2041 or (301) 443-6597, or at its internet address "http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/dsma/dsmamain.html".
Sincerely yours,
Steven Sutman
Steven I. Gutman, M.D, M.B.A. Director Division of Clinical Laboratory Devices Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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510(k) Number (if known): Device Name: IMMULITE® 2000 Vitamin B12
Indications For Use:
IMMULITE 2000 Vitamin B12 is for in vitro diagnostic use with the IMMULITE 2000 Analyzer for the quantitative measurement of vitamin B12 in serum or heparinized plasma, as an aid in clinical diagnosis and treatment of anemia.
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