Eurofins Biomnis code

VB6ST

Synonyms

• Pyridoxal
• Pyridoxal phosphate
• Pyridoxamine
• Pyridoxine

Specialty

Analytical Chemistry

Clinical significance

This test is useful in the diagnosis of deficiency which reveals as mucocutaneous, neurological, psychiatric and hematological disturbances. Deficiency can arise in chronic alcoholics, pregnant and breast-feeding women and in patients on non-supplemented parenteral alimentation or hemodialysis.

Preanalytics

• 1 x 2 mL :
• Whole blood EDTA (no tubes with separator)
•   FROZEN
• Freezing within 4 hours

• A tube specifically for this analysis : No

Further information

Store samples protected from light but do not pack the tube.
Tubes with separators not accepted

Methodology

LCMS/MS

Turnaround time

6 days