The lab performing aldosterone and cortisol analyses must be very careful to ensure that accurate labelling has occurred at every step of the pre-analytical process. The samples are typically all named similarly, all arrive simultaneously, and may have identical or similar collection times. Review ...
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The degradation products formed under those circumstances (including biliverdin) do not react with the test, causing false-negative test results. To avoid this, urine should be evaluated within 30 minutes of collection or be refrigerated, kept dark, and (for other tests) brought to room ...
While resolving these nods would bring benefit to the research, biomarker discovery and diagnostics development, we tend to privilege the solutions that are likely to offer major compliance with current clinical lab practices in terms of timing and processing of urine samples. At the same time, ...
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However, if spot urine P/C ratio is >20 mg/mmol (0.2 mg/mg), or >50 mg/mmol (0.5 mg/mg) for children under 2 years of age, or the urine test results are abnormal (e.g. hema- turia, leukocyturia, active urinary sediment), persistent proteinuria or proteinuria of clinical ...
However, the fact that a similar percentage of controls are also LAM-ELISA positive suggests that the positive results in patients with solely NTM infection are not really attributable to cross-reactivity of the test. The sensitivity of the LAM-ELISA is noticeably higher in HIV-infected patients ...
For this reason, we examined the effect of delaying the laboratory analysis of urine samples for ACR by 24 to 48 h (stored at 4 °C) and observed no effect on the results. While promising, not all participants may be willing to store urine samples in their refrigerators, and this could...
For example, laboratory error and test insensitivity can result in the lab reporting absence of the prescribed drug. Even bingeing by the patient can result in unexpected negative urine reports if the patient runs out of medication prior to sample collection. Therefore, these results by themselves ...
Ideally, if samples are collected in a similar way and analyzed using the same technique, the results of drug tests should be consistent. However, authentic samples can show some variance from real values due to different lab conditions or many other factors [1], [2]. This bias can be amp...