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Test Code hGH Human Growth Hormone

Performing Laboratory

Memorial Hospital Laboratory- Automated Procedures  304-388-5953       

Specimen Requirements

Plasma- 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)

Specimen Rejection

  • Improperly labeled, collected, stored, and transported
  • Quantity not sufficient

Reference Values

Adult Male 0.003-0.971 ng/mL
Adult Female 0.010-3.607 ng/mL

Reference intervals have not been formally verified in-house for pediatric and adolescant patients.  The published literature indicates that reference intervals for adults, pediatrics, and adolescant patients are compartable.

Methodology

One step imummoenzymatic sandwich 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

83003