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Test Code Billings Clinic: 4304 Uric Acid, Random, Urine

Performing Laboratory

Billings Clinic Laboratory: Chemistry

Useful For

  • Differentiation of acute uric acid nephropathy from other causes of acute renal failure
  • Patients who cannot collect a 24-hour specimen, typically small children, a uric acid creatinine ratio can be used to approximate 24-hour excretion

Methodology

Uricase / Bichromatic endpoint

Specimen Requirements

  • 10 mL from a random urine collection in a urine container.
  • Send specimen ambient and at an alkaline pH.

Storage/Stability

Type Temperature Time
Urine (Alkaline) Ambient 4 days

Reference Values

Not established

Day(s) Test Set Up

Daily

Test Classification and CPT Coding

84560 - Uric acid, other source

LOINC Code Information

Reporting Name LOINC Code
Uric Acid, Urine, Random 3086-6