Clinical Biochemistry Tests
- Useful for:
Monitoring magnesium levels in blood. Hypomagnesemia causes impairment of neuromuscular function, reduced tolerance to carbohydrates, and cardiac arrhythmias. Hypermagnesemia, among other effects, causes hypotension, bradycardia, and respiratory depression.
- Method Name: Enzymatic
- Other Common Names: Mg
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 51
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Monitoring magnesium levels in blood. Hypomagnesemia causes impairment of neuromuscular function, reduced tolerance to carbohydrates, and cardiac arrhythmias. Hypermagnesemia, among other effects, causes hypotension, bradycardia, and respiratory depression.
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Diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders including bone, parathyroid, and kidney disease.
- Method Name: Phosphomolybdate
- Other Common Names: Phophate, PO4
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 52
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders including bone, parathyroid, and kidney disease.
- Useful for:
Diagnosis and monitoring of a wide range of disorders including diseases of bone, kidney, parathyroid gland, or gastrointestinal tract.
- Method Name: Arsenazo
- Other Common Names: Ca
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 50
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
- Other Information:
- Avoid prolonged tourniquet application and excessive fist clenching during blood collection , as these can falsely increase calcium.
- Document calcium-affecting therapy (e.g. calcium supplements, vitamin D, diuretics).
Diagnosis and monitoring of a wide range of disorders including diseases of bone, kidney, parathyroid gland, or gastrointestinal tract.
- Useful for:
The Amylase test is used as an adjunct in the diagnosis and management of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
- Method Name: CNPG3 Substrate
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 42
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
The Amylase test is used as an adjunct in the diagnosis and management of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
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Diagnosis and treatment of a variety of diseases involving the liver, kidney, or bone marrow, as well as other metabolic or nutritional disorders.
- Method Name: Diurate
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 19
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Diagnosis and treatment of a variety of diseases involving the liver, kidney, or bone marrow, as well as other metabolic or nutritional disorders.
- Useful for:
Assessing nutritional status. Albumin is the main serum protein in healthy individuals. Elevated serum albumin levels are usually the result of dehydration. Decreased albumin levels are observed in various conditions, such as kidney disease, liver disease, malabsorption, poor nutrition, severe burns, and infections.
- Method Name: Colorimetric
- Other Common Names: ALB
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 20
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Assessing nutritional status. Albumin is the main serum protein in healthy individuals. Elevated serum albumin levels are usually the result of dehydration. Decreased albumin levels are observed in various conditions, such as kidney disease, liver disease, malabsorption, poor nutrition, severe burns, and infections.
- Useful for:
Evaluating the long-term control of blood glucose concentrations in patients with diabetes. Hemoglobin A1c measurements are used as an aid in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, for identifying patients who may be at risk of developing diabetes mellitus, and for monitoring long-term blood glucose control in individuals with diabetes mellitus. This assay is not useful in determining day-to-day glucose control and should not be used to replace daily home testing of blood glucose.
- Method Name: Urease
- Other Common Names: Glycosylated Hemoglobin
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 620, 277
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: EDTA Whole Blood
- Specimen Required Supplies: K2-EDTA vials
- Specimen Volume: 3 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab
- Other Information:
Send specimen in original tube. Do not aliquot.
Evaluating the long-term control of blood glucose concentrations in patients with diabetes. Hemoglobin A1c measurements are used as an aid in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, for identifying patients who may be at risk of developing diabetes mellitus, and for monitoring long-term blood glucose control in individuals with diabetes mellitus.
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Screening test for evaluation of kidney function. Determination of the concentration of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in serum is a widely used test for the assessment of renal function. This test is often requested in combination with serum creatinine measurement for the differential diagnosis of prerenal (heart failure, fluid loss, increased protein catabolism), renal (glomerulonephritis, chronic nephritis, polycystic kidney disease, nephrosclerosis, tubular necrosis), and postrenal (urinary tract obstruction) uremia.
- Method Name: Urease
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 2
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Screening test for evaluation of kidney function. Determination of the concentration of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in serum is a widely used test for the assessment of renal function.
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Measurement of serum creatinine is used for the diagnosis and monitoring of acute and chronic renal failure, the calculation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and the assessment of patients undergoing hemodialysis.
- Method Name: Jaffe
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 34
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Measurement of serum creatinine is used for the diagnosis and monitoring of acute and chronic renal failure, the calculation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and the assessment of patients undergoing hemodialysis.
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Evaluation of jaundice and liver functions. Direct bilirubin increases in conditions that cause hepatic enlargement, hepatitis, cirrhosis, several inherited enzymatic deficiencies, as well as hereditary defects in tubular (canalicular) excretion.
- Method Name: Diazo Reaction
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 17
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Evaluation of jaundice and liver functions. Direct bilirubin increases in conditions that cause hepatic enlargement, hepatitis, cirrhosis, several inherited enzymatic deficiencies, as well as hereditary defects in tubular (canalicular) excretion.
- Useful for:
Assessing liver function. Evaluating a wide range of diseases affecting the production, uptake, storage, metabolism, or excretion of bilirubin. Total bilirubin is increased in hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemolytic disorders, several inherited enzymatic deficiencies, and in conditions that cause hepatic obstruction. Quantitative determination of neonatal bilirubin is used to monitor diseases that cause jaundice in the newborn, mainly fetal erythroblastosis (also known as hemolytic disease of the newborn, or HDN).
- Method Name: Diazo Reaction
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 16
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Assessing liver function. Evaluating a wide range of diseases affecting the production, uptake, storage, metabolism, or excretion of bilirubin. Total bilirubin is increased in hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemolytic disorders, several inherited enzymatic deficiencies, and in conditions that cause hepatic obstruction.
- Useful for:
Diagnosing and monitoring treatment of liver, bone, intestinal, and parathyroid diseases. A rise in the alkaline phosphatase occurs with all forms of cholestasis, particularly with obstructive jaundice. It is also elevated in diseases of the skeletal system, such as Paget disease, hyperparathyroidism, rickets, and osteomalacia, as well as with fractures and malignant tumors.
- Method Name: Para-Nitropheny
- Other Common Names: /
- Medicover Laboratories Code Name: 15
- Fasting or other requirements: None
- Specimen Type: Serum
- Specimen Required Supplies: Serum gel vial (preferred), Red top vial (acceptable)
- Specimen Volume: 0.5 ml
- Specimen retention time: 7 days
- Report Available: Same day/1 day
- Performing Laboratories Location: Central Lab, BOCOC Lab and Apollonio Lab
Diagnosing and monitoring treatment of liver, bone, intestinal, and parathyroid diseases. A rise in the alkaline phosphatase occurs with all forms of cholestasis, particularly with obstructive jaundice.
