NTX-TELOPEPTIDE, URINE

Vitros Eci Competitive Assay & Enzymatic Colorimetric Assay

Includes Creatinine Urine

 

Test Performed At:

 

 

Mayo Medical Laboratories   #81549

 

Specimen Required:

 

 

Submit an entire 24-Hour urine collection in a urine container (with no preservative) supplied by St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Call 314-454-4161 to obtain container. Refrigerate specimen during collection and send specimen refrigerated. Please note collection START and STOP times on collection container.

 

 

NOTES:

1.

24-Hour collections are preferred, but second-morning voided and random specimens are also acceptable.

 

 

 

2.

Specimens contaminated with blood will be rejected.

 

Laboratory Notes:

 

 

Mix the submitted 24Hr Ur container well and measure the total volume collected. Aliquot 4.0 mL (minimum 1.5 mL) of urine into a 13-mL urine tube and send specimen refrigerated.

 

 

NOTES:

1.

Specimens with pH levels <5 will be rejected.

 

 

 

2.

Mayo will also accept random specimens.

 

 

 

3.

Specimens contaminated with blood will be rejected

 

Reference Values:

 

 

All units are reported in nmol Bone Collagen Equivalents/mmol creatinine.

 

 

 

 

 

Males:

 

 

 

< 6 years:

576-1,763

 

 

 

6-13 years:

307-1,367

 

 

 

14-17 years:

102-1,048

 

 

 

> or = 18 years:

21-66

 

 

 

 

 

Females:

 

 

 

< 6 years:

576-1,763

 

 

 

6-13 years:

307-1,367

 

 

 

14-17 years:

55-378

 

 

 

> or = 18 years:

19-63

 

 

 

 

 

Values are based on Mayo in-house studies of 75 children and adolescents age 3.5 to 18.5 and >100 adults.

 

 

 

 

Day(s) Test Set Up:

 

 

Monday-Saturday

 

Cut-off Time:

 

 

 

 

Turn Around Time:

 

 

3-5 days

 

CPT Code:

 

 

82523

 

Care Manager Order Name:

 

 

Miscellaneous Referral Test ONCE RTN

 

KIDDDOS Order Name:

 

 

Miscellaneous Lab Test

 

Cerner Order Name:

 

 

Misc Ref SLC

 

05/09