Open AccessHyperbilirubinemia in Anicteric Blood?
Author(s) -
Yu Chen,
Lauren Graham,
Ihssan Bouhtiauy,
Gail Watts,
Mary Kristina Hamilton
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2014.223495
Subject(s) - medicine
Plasma total bilirubin for a 65-year-old man was high [19.1 mg/dL (326 μmol/L)] on a Roche cobas 6000 analyzer. However, the specimen was anicteric and the icteric index was 1 (approximately 1 mg/dL or 17 μmol/L). A dilution study demonstrated nonlinear results. Direct bilirubin was measured as normal. The split specimen aliquots were further …
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