Specimen

Plasma

Collection Medium:

Alternate
Collection Media:

Call laboratory for additional acceptable specimen collection 
containers.

Minimum:

2 mls whole blood in light green top or two light green top microtubes 
for pediatric patients.

Testing Schedule:

Testing offered once per week on Thursdays, excluding 
University holidays. For same day service, sample must 
be received by 0700.  For additional services, contact 
Clinical Pathology Resident on-call at pager #3724 or #3404.

Analytic Time:

7 working days

Reference Range:

0-1.9 mg/L

Test
Limitations:

Specimens from patients who have received preparations of mouse 
monoclonal antibodies for diagnosis or therapy may contain human 
anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA).  Such specimens may show either falsely 
elevated or depressed values when tested with assay kits which employ 
mouse monoclonal antibodies.  These specimens should not be assayed 
with the IMx B2-Microglobuiln assay.

When a patient is being monitored by this assay, the same specimen type 
should be used throughout the monitoring period.

Methodology:

MEIA (Microparticle Enzymatic ImmunoAssay)

CPT Code:

82232