Inpatient and Outpatient Orderable

Random Urine, Albumin/Creatinine Ratio

Synonyms

LAB689
MALBRU
MICROALBUMIN
MICROALBUMIN / CREATININE URINE RATIO

Cerner Name

Clinical Info

An important test for identifying early kidney disease in patients with diabetes or other risk factors (eg, hypertension).

Specimen Sources

Urine, Catheter Urine, Clean Catch

Specimen Types

Urine

Container

Urine-Yellow Top

Collection Instructions

Container/Tube: Plastic urine Container or Yellow (no preservative) tube Preferred - "2nd morning urine" is preferred,
Specimen: Full Yellows urine tube or 10 mL from a random urine collection. (3mL min) No preservative.
Transport Temperature: Refrigerated
Stability: 14 Days Room Temperature
28 Days Refrigerated or Frozen

Specimen Volume

10 mL from a random urine collection. 3mL min) No preservative.

Transport Instructions

Refrigerated

Specimen Stability

14 Days Room Temperature
28 Days Refrigerated or Frozen

Methodology

Immunoturbidmetric

Days Performed

Monday through Sunday, continuously

Performing Laboratory

Northwell Health Laboratories

CPT

82043 - urine, microalbumin
82570 - urine creatinine

PDM

5302604

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Orderable Everywhere

Results

Component Name	Base Name	Common Name	External Name
ALBUMIN, RANDOM URINE	ALBUMINUR	ALBUMIN UR	Urine Albumin per volume
CREATININE, RANDOM URINE	CREATUR	CREATININE U	Urine Creatinine
ALBUMIN/CREATININE RATIO	ALBCREAT	ALB CREAT RATIO	Urine Albumin/Creatinine Ratio

Result Interpretation

Microalbumin/Creatinine ratio: 0 - 30 mg/g

Forms

LAB689

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