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Adjusted Calcium (Calculated)


Adjusted Calcium (Calculated)

Calcium (Ca) blood tests measure how much calcium is in your blood. Your healthcare provider can use this test to help diagnose and watch many conditions.

Measured total calcium in serum consists of approximately 15% bound to organic and inorganic ions, approximately 40% bound to albumin and the remaining as biologically active ionized calcium. As a result, the total serum calcium concentration in patients with low or high serum albumin levels may not accurately reflect the physiologically important ionized, or free calcium concentration. Adjusted calcium is an estimate of the total calcium concentration, had the serum albumin concentration been normal.

Clinical Details

Corrected calcium concentration estimates the total concentration as if the albumin concentration was normal – usually taken as 40g/l. A typical correction is that for every 1g/l that the albumin concentration is below this mean, the calcium concentration is 0.02mmol/l below what it would be if the albumin concentration was normal; i.e. corrected [Ca] = measured [Ca] + {(40 – [albumin]) * 0.02}.

Causes of Hypercalcaemia include

  • Primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Sarcoidosis
  • vitamin D intoxification
  • Tuberculosis
  • Lithium treatment
  • periods of prolonged immobilisation
  • acute renal injury

Causes of Hypocalcaemia include

  • Inadequate Vitamin D
  • Hypoparathyroidism post operatively or post radiotherapy
  • Pseudohypoparathyroidism or pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
  • Hyper or hypomagnesemia
  • Renal disease : excessive calcium excreted
  • End-stage liver disease causing vitamin D inadequacy
  • Bone disease – osteomalacia in adults or rickets in children
  • Sclerotic metastases
  • Genetic causes: congenital absence of parathyroid glands, Di George syndrome, or Fanconi syndrome
  • Pancreatitis
  • Drugs (eg, rifampicin, antiepileptics, calcitonin, bisphosphonates, calcitonin, corticosteroids, chloroquine)
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WASPLab® at Enfer Medical
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Sample Type &
Volume Required

5mL venous serum or plasma

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Transporting
Samples

In addition to the packaging of samples, the transport/delivery of clinical samples to the laboratory is required to be in adherence to all national regulations for the safe transport of biological materials. Enfer Medical provides a fully compliant logistics service, aligned with clients’ testing requirements.

Prompt transport of specimens:
To ensure prompt testing of samples and release of results within the published test turnaround times, samples should arrive to the laboratory by 18:00. Test turnaround time is measured from receipt of the sample at the laboratory until the time the authorised results are reported to users.

Acceptance/Rejection
of Samples

In rare cases specimens may not be suitable for testing on arrival to the laboratory. In that case the sample will be rejected at the receipt stage and the service user will be notified immediately and an explanation as to why the sample could not be processed will be provided. Reasons why samples cannot be processed include but are not limited to:

  • Samples received beyond the stability limits and/or not at the correct temperature indicated for each test.
  • Incorrect sample type received.
  • Leaking samples, sample not received or sample insufficient for analysis as stated below within sample requirements.
  • Non-compliant samples or request forms i.e. those missing sample date information, missing sample test request and/or missing sample site/type information.
  • Samples received without the necessary patient identifiers.
Clients will be provided with guidance on Sample Receipt Anomalies.

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General health and wellness testing can include a variety of tests, depending on the needs of the individual or recommendations of
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Regular STI screening facilitates early treatment and reduces the long-term consequences of infection.
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Respiratory Health
Rapid early pathogen identification has important treatment and infection control implications. See our range of tests here.
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Reproductive & Female Health
Hormonal analysis is hugely beneficial to identifying problems that can arise during the reproductive years.
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Result Values:

Quantitative results for Adjusted Calcium (Calculated) are reported in numeric value in mmol/L. Please contact us for more information on the reference ranges used at Enfer Medical.

Critical results are communicated in accordance with the Communication of critical results for patients in the community- national laboratory handbook CSP041/2019.

 

 

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