Qualitative STR (VAMC)

Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center 10E-19
319-338-0581, EXT. 5640 (dial 158 from UIHC)

Specimen(s):

Whole Blood

Minimum:

THREE 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes from patient pre-transplant AND donor pre-transplant.

Delivery Instructions:

Deliver at room temperature.

Testing Schedule:

Test performed daily.

Turn Around Time:

Resulted in Epic by 7 working days.

Comments:

Requires samples from BOTH patient and donor pre-transplant.

Baseline STR allele identification of donor and recipient.


All HLA Testing is ordered through the University of Iowa Epic 
System.

Methodology:

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Sequence Based Typing (SBT)

CPT Code:

81265

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