Specimen:

Whole Blood

Minimum:

THREE - FOUR 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes.

Delivery Instructions:

Deliver at room temperature.

Analytic Time:

7 days

Comments:

Requires pre-transplant donor sample AND pre-transplant recipient 
sample and prior Qualitative STR testing.

Engraftment test provides percentage of donor DNA in purified CD3 
subset from post-transplant recipient blood sample by quantitative 
analysis of 1 STR locus.

Methodology:

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), magnetic cell separation, flow 
cytometry and Sequence Based Typing (SBT).

CPT Code:

83891(x3), 83909(x9), 83900(x1), 83901(x52), 83912(x2), 86849(x1),
88184(x1), 88185(x2), 88187(x1)
Use modifier (4I or 4L)

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