Test ID: POXA
Oxalate, Plasma
Secondary ID 
A test code used for billing and in test definitions created prior to November 2011
81408
NY State Approved Indicates the status of NY State approval and if the test is orderable for NY State clients.
Yes
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
Aliases Lists additional common names for a test, as an aid in searching
Oxalate
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