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Unit Code 8804:
C-Peptide, Serum

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Useful For

Diagnostic work-up of hypoglycemia:

-  Diagnosis of factitious hypoglycemia due to surreptitious

   administration of insulin

-  Evaluation of possible insulinoma

-  Surrogate measure for the absence or presence of physiological

   suppressibility of endogenous insulin secretion during diagnostic

   insulin-induced hypoglycemia (C-peptide suppression test)

 

Assessing insulin secretory reserve in selected diabetic patients

(as listed below) who either have insulin autoantibodies or who are

receiving insulin therapy

-  Assessing residual endogenous insulin secretory reserve

-  Monitoring pancreatic and islet cell transplant function

-  Monitoring immunomodulatory therapy aimed at slowing

   progression of preclinical, or very early stage type 1 DM

Method Name

Electrochemiluminescence Immunoassay

Reporting Name

C-Peptide, S

Ordering Mnemonic

CPR

Aliases

C Peptide

Connecting Peptide of Insulin

Key