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Test Code CKMB Creatine Kinase (CK- MB)

Performing Laboratory

Memorial Hospital Laboratory- Automated Procedures  304-388-5953       
Plateau Medical Center Laboratory 304-469-8621
Greenbrier Valley Laboratory 304-647-6060

Test Profile

CK-MB fraction Total CK

Specimen Requirements

Memorial, Plateau

Plasma- Mint Green, Dark Green Lithium Heparin or Serum- SST gold top, red top 

Allow SST or red top to completely clot

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

4 mL of plasma/serum (minimum 2 mL)

 

Greenbrier

Serum only

Allow 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

Memorial, Plateau 

  • Improperly labeled, collected, stored, and transported
  • Quantity not sufficient
  • Hemolyzed 
  • Icteric
  • Lipemic

 

Greenbrier

  • Improperly labeled, collected, stored, and transported
  • Quantity not sufficient
  • Plasma EDTA and heparin
  • Hemolyzed
  • Lipemic

Storage and Stability

Memorial, Plateau 

Room temperature 15-30oC 8 hrs
Refrigerated 2-8oC 48 hrs
Frozen <-20oC Not specified

 

Greenbrier

Room temperature 15-30oC < 4 hrs
Refrigerated 2-8oC < 2 days
Frozen <-20oC < 1 year

Reference Values

0.6-3.6 ng/mL

Methodology

Memorial, Plateau-Chemiluminescent two-site immunoenzymatic sandwich assay

Greenbrier- Reflection density

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

82550-CK, total
82553-CK-MB isoenzymes