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| Title | GASTRIN |
| Specimen Requirement | <p>Patient should fast 12 hours.</p>
<p>Draw blood in a SST. Spin, separate and send 2.0mL serum in screw-capped plastc vial; label transport tube as "serum" and freeze.</p>
<p>Contact lab for dry ice for shipment.</p> |
| Methodology | |
| Stability | Frozen 14 days |
| Reference Range | By report* |
| Turnaround | 4 days Performed Tues,Fri |
| Clinical Use | <p>Diagnose Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and pernicious anemia, both of which exhibit high gastrin levels. Evaluate patients with severe duodenal ulcer or recurrent symptoms after gastric surgery; evaluate achlorhydria.</p> |
| Test Code | GASTW |
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