Inpatient and Outpatient Orderable

von Willebrand Factor Multimer Assay

Synonyms

  • FACTOR 8
  • FACTOR VIII
  • LAB1111
  • MULTIMERS
  • VON WILLEBRAND MULTIMERIC
  • VWF
  • VWF MULTIMERS

Cerner Name

VWF Multimer

Clinical Info

Specimen Sources

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

Specimen Types

Blood

Container

Blue Top Tube

Collection Instructions

Container/Tube: Light blue-top (3.2% sodium citrate) tube
Specimen: 0.5 mL citrated plasma
Transport Temperature: Frozen
Collection Instructions:
1. If no other tube is drawn, draw a discard tube.
2. If there is a delay in transport, spin down, spin plasma again, and send citrate platelet-poor plasma. Double-centrifuged specimens are critical for accurate results as platelet contamination may cause spurious results.
3. Fill tube completely.
4. Mix by gently inverting several times.
5. Send aliquot frozen.

Specimen Volume

0.5 mL citrated plasma

Transport Instructions

Frozen

Specimen Stability

Methodology

Days Performed

Monday, Tuesday and Saturdays

Performing Laboratory

Esoterix

CPT

85247

PDM

5600318

Only Orderable at Locations:

Orderable Everywhere

Results
Component Name Base Name Common Name External Name
VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR MULTIMER ASSAY VWFMULT VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR MULTIMER ASSAY VWF Multimers

Result Interpretation

Normal pattern and distribution

Forms
LAB1111 build edit