- AH50
Complement Activity, Alternative Pathway AH50
Specimen:
Test Code
AH50
Specimen Name
Complement Activity, Alternative Pathway AH50
Collect
1-Plain Red Top
Submit
1 mL (Min: 0.5 mL) Serum
Special Handling
Allow specimen to clot for one hour at room temperature. Separate serum from cells ASAP and centrifuge and aliquot serum into standard transport tube. Freeze specimen immediately at -70 degrees C or lower freezer.
Rejection Criteria
Specimen types other than serum collected from RED TOP tubes. SST or serum gel tubes are not acceptable. Refrigerated or room temperature specimens. Specimens left to clot at refrigerated temperature. Specimens exposed to repeated freeze/thaw cycles. Grossly hemolyzed or grossly lipemic specimens or icteric specimens.
Stability
Preferred/Transport CRITICAL FROZEN 30 days; Ambient Unacceptable; Refrigerated Unacceptable
Methodology
Semi-Quantitative Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
Performed
Sunday/Wednesday
Reported
7-14 days
CPT Codes
- 86161
Components
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Additional Information
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