Bile Acids, Fractionated and Total, Serum

Order Code:	BAF
Epic Lab Code:	LAB2712
Order Form:	A-1a Miscellaneous Request or Epic Req

Commercial Mail-out Laboratory
6240 RCP
356-3527

Specimen:

Serum

Collection Medium:

Red top tube

Minimum:

Preferred minimum: 1 mL serum from red top tube Absolute minimum: 0.2 mL serum from red top tube

Analytic Time:

1 week upon receipt at reference laboratory

Reference Range:

7 years and older: Cholic acid (CA) 0-1.9 umol/L Chenodeoxycholic acid (CDC) 0-3.4 umol/L Deoxycholic acid (DCA) 0-2.5 umol/L Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDC) 0-1.0 umol/L Total 0-7.0 umol/L Note: Reference intervals were derived using samples obtained after an overnight fast.

Comments:

Patient should be fasting a minimum of eight hours prior to specimen collection. Overnight fasting preferred.

Methodology:

Quantitative High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

CPT Code:

83789