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Test ID: CARNU
Carnitine, Urine

Secondary ID A test code used for billing and in test definitions created prior to November 2011

81123

Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful

Evaluation of patients with a clinical suspicion of a wide range of inborn errors of metabolism, especially organic acidemias and fatty acid oxidation disorders including primary carnitine deficiency

 

Monitoring carnitine treatment

Method Name A short description of the method used to perform the test

Flow Injections Analysis-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (FIA-MS/MS)

Reporting Name A shorter/abbreviated version of the Published Name for a test; an abbreviated test name

Carnitine, U

Aliases Lists additional common names for a test, as an aid in searching

Carnitine Free & Total, Urine
L-Carnitine, Urine
Urinary Carnitine, Quantitative