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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