Advanced Diagnostic Laboratories

Collect

Draw one green top tube (Sodium or Lithium Heparin) top tube.

When shipping specimens, please also include one sample from a healthy, unrelated adult to serve as a transport control.

Specimen Preparation

Do NOT centrifuge! Keep at room temperature (18-22°C).

Preferred volume: 4 mL

Pediatric Collection

Minimum volume: 2 mL blood

Unacceptable Conditions

Frozen, clotted, hemolyzed or centrifuged specimens. Anticoagulants other than heparin. Specimens >48 hrs old.

Storage Transport Temp

Maintain and transport specimens at room temperature (18-22°C).
Ship specimens Priority Overnight via Fed Ex in container sufficiently insulated to avoid temperature extremes (<10°C and >37°C).

Stability

48 hours at room temperature (18-22°C)

Notes

Samples accepted Monday - Friday, no later than 12:00pm on Friday.

Performed

Tue-Fri

Methodology

Flow Cytometry

Reported

2-4 days

Department

Immunology Lab - Functional Assay

Synonyms

Neutrophil Respiratory Burst;Flow Cytometry (Dihydrorhodamine Oxidation);Neutrophil Oxidative Burst

Related Tests

NBT, CTX, BACT, CD18, ADHM, CDA11, C11CO, 11BO

Reference Interval

Index value >30

Interpretation

This test supports the diagnosis of X-linked or autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease.

CPT Code

82657x2