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EPIC NAME: LUTEINIZING HORMONE EPIC CODE: LAB87
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Performing Laboratory
Saint Francis Medical Center-Chemistry
Specimen Requirements
Specimen Type: Plasma
Container/Tube:
Preferred: Mint green-top (lithium heparin gel) tube
Acceptable: K2- or K3-EDTA tube
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Transport Temperature
Refrigerated 14 days/Room Temperature 5 days/Frozen 6 months
Reference Values
Males
<12 years: <1.0 U/mL
>12 years: 1.0-9.0 U/mL
Females
Prepuberty: <1.0 U/mL
Follicular: 1.0-18.0 U/mL
Midcycle: 20.0-80.0 U/mL
Luteal: 0.5-18.0 U/mL
Postmenopausal: 12.0-55.0 U/mL
Day(s) Test Set Up
Monday- Sunday
Test Classification and CPT Coding
83002
Methodology
Electrochemiluminescence