The University of Iowa (UIHC)
Department of Pathology
LABORATORY SERVICES HANDBOOK

UNOS PRA, Class I & Class II /MICA (VAMC)

Order Form: Tissue Typing Laboratory Test Requisition 		  Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
Veterans Affairs Hospital 10E-19
(319-338-0581), EXT. 5640
dial 158 from UIHC 
Specimen:
 
Whole Blood
Minimum:
 
One 10 mL red top (no additive) tube.
Delivery Instructions:
 
Deliver at room temperature.
Analytic Time:
 
Testing performed monthly.
Comments:
 
Percent reactive antigen (PRA), class I & class II.
The percentage of HLA antigens within a pool of donors bound by 
antibody in the blood sample.  Results updated in UNOS.
Methodology:
 
Luminex, Solid Phase
CPT Code:
 
86808, 83516, 86255(x21)
 
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Updated: 04/15/2009

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