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Test Code A1AT Alpha-1-Antitrypsin

Performing Laboratory

Memorial Hospital Laboratory- Automated Procedures  304-388-5953       

Specimen Requirements

Serum- SST gold top, red top

Allow SST or red top to completely clot      

Spin and physically separate serum from contact with cells as soon as possible

4 mL of serum (minimum 2 mL)

Specimen Rejection

  • Improperly labeled, collected, stored, and transported
  • Quantity not sufficient
  • Hemolyzed 
  • Moderate lipemic

Storage and Stability

Room temperature 15-30oC 8 hours
Refrigerated 2-8oC 1 week
Frozen <-20oC 2 months

Reference Values

90 - 200 mg/dL

Methodology

Photometric assay

Days Test Set Up and Turnaround

Monday through Sunday, Continuously

AM Collection Expected by 9AM same day
Routine Expected within 24 hrs
Stat Expected within 1 hr
Timed Expected results are test dependant

CPT Coding

82103