Unit Code 81408:
Oxalate, Plasma
Useful For 
Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Assessing the body pool size of oxalate. The settings in which
it has been most useful include patients with enzyme deficiencies,
such as primary hyperoxaluria, which result in overproduction
of oxalate.
In the presence of renal insufficiency, 3 uses of plasma oxalate are:
- In those patients with renal insufficiency from indeterminate
causes and in whom the question of primary hyperoxaluria has
arisen and urinary oxalate is not available, plasma oxalate has
been used for diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria
- Monitoring patients with renal failure who are thought to have primary
hyperoxaluria
- As an aid to maintaining plasma oxalate at levels below that which
supersaturation occurs
Method Name A short description of the method used to perform the test
Spectrophotometry (SP)
Reporting Name A shorter/abbreviated version of the Published Name for a test; an abbreviated test name
Oxalate, P
Ordering Mnemonic An alternate Mayo code (to the Unit Code) for a test
POXA
Aliases Lists additional common names for a test, as an aid in searching
Oxalate
Soft-POXA
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