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 Before Contacting the Laboratory
Patients and Family Members: Please take any information you may find helpful from this
website to your family physician to determine the suitability of our test
analyses for your particular condition or that of your family member. Please
do not contact the laboratory directly. Ask your physician to contact our
office either by phone or FAX to determine the appropriateness of testing.
This should be done before sending any type of specimens to the laboratory.
All specimens sent to the laboratory must include the appropriate test
request forms completed and signed by an ordering physician.
Physicians and Healthcare Providers: The complexity of testing for
individual metabolic disorders often results in partial defects or combined
defects that are difficult to interpret diagnostically. It is essential for
us to have all possible sources of supportive data to contribute to the final
analysis of our findings. Therefore, we require the inclusion of a clinical
summary and any relevant laboratory data for both children and
adult patients such as plasma lactate, ammonia, and creatine
kinase and in some cases plasma amino acids and
urine organic acids. The results of an ischemic exercise test and EMG report
are helpful in evaluating metabolic myopathies. In
cases where a skeletal or cardiac muscle or liver biopsy has been taken, we
require a histopathology report and when performed, an electron
microscopy report. All specimens sent to the laboratory must include the
appropriate test request forms completed and signed by an ordering physician.
Any specimens that arrive in the laboratory without the above required
information and complete forms will be placed on "hold" until
receipt of the complete information.
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All forms are sized to print on standard
8.5" x 11" paper. 
