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| Title | ZINC |
| Specimen Requirement | <p>Draw blood in a dark blue EDTA tube. Spin, POUR off plasma from cells within 2 hours and send 2.0 mL plasma refrigerated in a screw-capped plastic vial. Do not pipette plasma. Indicate on transport vial "Dark Blue/EDTA/Plasma"</p>
<p>ALTERNATE SPECIMEN-SERUM: DARK BLUE NO ADDITIVE.</p>
<p>REJECTION CRITERIA: HEMOLYSIS, SERUM OR PLASMA NOT SEPARATED FROM CELLS WITHIN 2 HOURS.</p> |
| Methodology | |
| Stability | Room Temp: 24 hours; Refrigerated: 7 days; Frozen: 14 days |
| Reference Range | By report* |
| Turnaround | 4-6 days Performed Tues, Fri |
| Clinical Use | <p>Monitor exposure to zinc; evaluate suspected nutritional inadequacy, especially in enteral or parental nutrition, critically ill or burn patients; cases of diabetes or delayed wound healing; growth retardation; follow therapy, for example when higher intravenous zinc doses are used to balance excessive ongoing GI losses in long-term total parenteral nutrition; follow oral zinc therapy in Wilson disease; confirm acrodermatitis enteropathica and follow therapy</p> |
| Test Code | ZINC |
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