PTH, Intact and Calcium Test code(s) 8837 Question 1. What is the purpose of this test? Question 2. How are test results interpreted? Question 3. Is any patient preparation required for this test? Question 4. What type of specimen is required? Question 5. What can interfere with parath...
She had an ultrasound and technetium-99m-sestamibi scintigraphy confirming the presence of a parathyroid adenoma.The preoperative serum intact PTH assays performed at Quest Diagnostics, Nichols Institute, were low even after serial dilutions, whereas the intraoperative turbo PTH assay was elevated at ...
For the TSH assays in mLTC, ovine blood samples were taken from intact and thyroidectomized ewes (i.e., just before and after surgery) and had been previously assayed for TSH using a specific RIA [32]. 4.5. Area Under Curve (AUC) Calculations and Statistical Analyses The GraphPad 5.0 (...