Chemistry Panel/CBC
This test requires fasting.
This panel is a comprehensive blood evaluation including the following 35 tests:
- Glucose, fasting: This test directly measures glucose levels and is commonly used in the evaluation of diabetes.
- Uric acid: This test is used in the evaluation of gout or recurrent urinary calculi.
- BUN (blood urea nitrogen): This test is used to measure liver function and indirectly to assess renal function and glomerular filtration rate.
- Creatinine: This is a renal function test used to estimate glomerular filtration rate, and follow progression of renal disease.
- BUN/Creatinine ratio: This test is used to diagnose impaired renal function. With creatinine, BUN is used to monitor individuals on dialysis.
- Sodium: This routine test is used to evaluate and monitor fluid and electrolyte balance and therapy.
- Potassium: This routine test is used to evaluate and monitor electrolyte balance and is especially important for cardiac individuals.
- Chloride: This test by itself does not provide adequate information. However, as part of a multiphasic testing for electrolytes it can give an indication of acid-base balance and hydrational status.
- Calcium: This test is used to evaluate parathyroid function and calcium metabolism.
- Phosphorus: This test is used to measure serum phosphorus. An imbalance could indicate the possibility of any number of conditions.
- Protein/Albumin/Globulin: This test is used to assist in the detection of many diseases that affect blood proteins as a whole or one single fraction of protein.
- Albumin/Globulin Ratio: This test is used to evaluate renal disease and other chronic disease.
- Bilirubin: This test is used to evaluate liver function
- Alkaline Phosphatase: This test is used to detect and monitor liver and/or bone disease.
- LDH (Lactic dehydrogenase): This test measures the intracellular enzyme LDH which, when present in the blood, can support the detection of injury or disease.
- AST (SGOT): This test is used to evaluate the possibility of coronary occlusive heart disease or liver disease.
- ALT (SGPT): This test is used to identify liver disease and to distinguish between the liver and red blood cell hemolysis as the source of jaundice.
- Iron: This test is used to evaluate many disease including iron deficiency anemia and hemochromatosis.
- Cholesterol: This test is used to determine the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and hyperlipidemias.
- Triglycerides: This test is used to identify the risk of developing coronary heart disease or if fat metabolism disorders are suspected.
- HDL Cholesterol: This test measures alpha lipoprotein and is used to predict heart disease.
- LDL Cholesterol: This test measures beta lipoproteins and is used to predict heart disease.
- Total Cholesterol/HDL Ratio: This test is used to determine the risk for coronary heart disease.
- CBC (complete blood count) with platelets and differential: This is a series of tests of the peripheral blood which provides a variety of information about the blood components. This series includes the following tests:
- Red blood cell count
- Hemoglobin
- Hematocrit
- Red blood cell indices
- Mean corpuscular hemoglobin
- Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration
- Red blood cell distribution
- White blood cell count
- Differential count
- Platelet count
