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Antibody Screen |
TEST CODE |
CPT CODE |
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363 |
86850 |
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Specimen Requirements: Red Top
Tube |
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Report Available: |
24 Hours |
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Transport Temperature: |
Refrigerated |
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Clinical Use: to detect and subsequently
identify clinically important red cell antibodies. Thus
antibody screening is a routine pretransfusion test.
Antibody detection and identification also play an important
role in the investigation protocols for hemolytic disease of
the newborn, hemolytic anemia, and transfusion reaction. |
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