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TEST ID PEPIMTYP PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS WITH IMMUNOTYPING

Important Note

 

This test is down at NRH Lab. 

QMPSS Monoclonal Protein Study, Quantitative, Serum will be ordered in its place. 

 

Immunotyping will either be performed in-house by immunosubtraction or sent to referral lab for Monoclonal Protein Study by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)

Additional Codes

Immunofixation

Immunosubtraction

SPE

SPEP

Serum Protein Electrophoresis

PEP

Performing Laboratory

NRLS-Core Chemistry

Specimen Type

Serum

Specimen Required

Container/Tube:
Preferred: Gold top serum gel (2)
Acceptable:  Red top
Specimen Volume: 3.0 mL
 

Collection Instructions:

Serum gel tubes should be fully clotted and centrifuged within 2 hours of collection.
Red-top tubes should be fully clotted, centrifuged and aliquoted within 2 hours of collection.

Specimen Minimum Volume

2.5 mL

Specimen Stability Information

Specimen Type Temperature Time
Serum Refrigerated(preferred) 10 days
  Ambient 8 hours
  Frozen(within 8 hrs of collect) 1 month

 

Reflex Testing

*Only 1 Immunotyping method will reflex based on electrophoresis results.  

  Test ID    Reporting Name Available
Separately		 Always
Performed
  IMMUNOSUBTRACTION No Yes*
QMPSS Monoclonal Protein Study, Quantitative Yes Yes*

Reference Values

An interpretive report will be provided