CAURS - Overview: Candida auris Surveillance, Molecular Detection, PCR, Varies

Detecting Candida auris from surveillance swabs This test should not be used to determine cure or to monitor response to therapy.

GLP - Overview: Glucagon, Plasma

Diagnosis and follow-up of glucagonomas and other glucagon-producing tumors Assessing diabetic patients with problematic hyper- or hypoglycemic episodes (extremely limited utility)

AMPHU - Overview: Amphetamines Confirmation, Random, Urine

Confirming drug exposure involving amphetamines such as amphetamine and methamphetamine, phentermine, pseudoephedrine/ephedrine, methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

SASP - Overview: Aspergillus fumigatus, IgG Antibodies, Serum

Evaluation of patients suspected of having hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) induced by exposure to Aspergillus fumigatus Evaluation of patients suspected of having HP who have documented environmental exposures to high-humidity...

GLYCS - Overview: Glycine Receptor Alpha1 IgG, Cell Binding Assay, Serum

Evaluating patients with suspected autoimmune stiff-person spectrum disorders (stiff-person syndrome, stiff-limb, stiff trunk or progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus [PERM]) using serum specimens

DPYDZ - Overview: Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase, DPYD Full Gene Sequencing, Varies

Identifying individuals at increased risk of toxicity when considering 5-fluorouracil and capecitabine chemotherapy treatment Identifying common and rare variants associated with decreased or absent dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD)...

MGLE - Overview: Myasthenia Gravis/Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome Evaluation, Serum

Confirming the autoimmune basis of a defect in neuromuscular transmission (eg, myasthenia gravis [MG], Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome [LEMS]) Distinguishing LEMS from autoimmune forms of MG Providing a quantitative autoantibody...

CPR - Overview: C-Peptide, Serum

Diagnostic workup of hypoglycemia: -Diagnosis of factitious hypoglycemia due to surreptitious administration of insulin -Evaluation of possible insulinoma -Surrogate measure for the absence or presence of physiological suppressibility of...

OHPG - Overview: 17-Hydroxyprogesterone, Serum

Screening test for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), caused by either 11- or 21-hydroxylase deficiency, when used in combination with testing for cortisol and androstenedione As part of a battery of tests to evaluate women with...

EPS2 - Overview: Epilepsy, Autoimmune/Paraneoplastic Evaluation, Serum

Investigating new onset cryptogenic epilepsy with incomplete seizure control and duration of less than 2 years, using serum specimens Investigating new onset cryptogenic epilepsy plus 1 or more of the following accompaniments: -Psychiatric...