Inpatient and Outpatient Orderable

Isotretinoin Level Build info

Synonyms

  • ISOTRETINOIN LEVEL, SERUM
  • ABSORICA
  • ACCUTANE
  • AMNESTEEM
  • CLARAVIS
  • LAB11349

Procedure Name

ISOTRETINOIN LEVEL, SERUM

Procedure Master Number

LAB11349

Cerner Name

Procedure ID

115049

Clinical Info

Specimen Sources

 Blood, Arterial Blood, Capillary Blood, Central Line Blood, Venous

Specimen Types

 Blood

Container

Gold Top Tube

Collection Instructions

Container/Tube:  Red top tube(s)
Specimen:  1 mL of serum ( 0.3 mL min)
Transport Temperature:  Refrigerated serum
Collection Instructions:  Protect specimen from light.
 
Stability   Room Temperature: 14 day(s)                  Refrigerated: 14 day(s)                  Frozen (-20 °C): 14 day(s)

Specimen Volume

1 mL of serum ( 0.3 mL min)

Transport Instructions

Refrigerated serum

Specimen Stability

Methodology

High Performance Liquid Chromatography/ Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

Days Performed

Daily Monday - Friday
  TAT: 3 Days

Performing Laboratory

National Medical Labs

CPT

80375

PDM

 5913810

Only Orderable at Locations:

 Orderable Everywhere

Results
Component Name Base Name Common Name External Name
ISOTRETINOIN ISOTRET ISOTRETINOIN Isotretinoin

Result Interpretation

Not Detected
Reporting Limit: 10 ng/mL
 
Patients taking 30 to 50 mg daily oral isotretinoin for
3 months had steady state plasma isotretinoin
concentrations ranging from 91 to 291 ng/mL and an
elimination half-life ranging from 10 to 37 hours.
Compounds known to interfere with this substance:
9-cis, 13-cis-retinoic acid.
 

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