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Test Code LAB665 Aluminum, Serum

Important Note

Mayo code is AL

ASANTE order code: ALUM

**Cannot be drawn without the special Mayo Collection Tube** Please call processing before you draw.

Greiner Z Trace Element no-additive (Aluminum Only), 6 mL (T713)-Metal Free Specimen Vial (T173)

Performing Laboratory

Mayo Clinic Laboratories in Rochester

Reporting Name

Aluminum, S

Specimen Type

Serum


Specimen Required


Patient Preparation: High concentrations of gadolinium and iodine are known to potentially interfere with most inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry-based metal tests. If either gadolinium- or iodine-containing contrast media has been administered, a specimen should not be collected for 96 hours.

Supplies:

-Metal Free B-D Tube (No Additive), 6 mL (T184)

-Metal Free Specimen Vial (T173)

Container/Tube: 6-mL Plain, royal blue-top Vacutainer plastic trace element blood collection tube

Submission Container/Tube: 7-mL Mayo metal-free, screw-capped, polypropylene vial

Specimen Volume: 1.2 mL

Collection Instructions: See Metals Analysis Specimen Collection and Transport for complete instructions.


Reject Due To

Gross hemolysis OK
Gross lipemia OK
Gross icterus OK

Specimen Stability Information

Specimen Type Temperature Time Special Container
Serum Refrigerated (preferred) 28 days METAL FREE
  Ambient  28 days METAL FREE
  Frozen  28 days METAL FREE

Specimen Minimum Volume

0.3 mL

Day(s) Performed

Monday through Friday

Specimen Retention Time

14 days

Report Available

1 to 4 days

Reference Values

<7 ng/mL

<60 ng/mL (dialysis patients)

 

For International System of Units (SI) conversion for Reference Values, see www.mayocliniclabs.com/order-tests/si-unit-conversion.html

Useful For

Monitoring for aluminum toxicity in patients undergoing dialysis

 

Routine aluminum screening

 

Monitoring metallic prosthetic implant wear

CPT Code Information

82108

LOINC Code Information

Test ID Test Order Name Order LOINC Value
AL Aluminum, S 5574-9

 

Result ID Test Result Name Result LOINC Value
8373 Aluminum, S 5574-9

Forms

If not ordering electronically, complete, print, and send a Renal Diagnostics Test Request (T830) with the specimen.