Diagnostics Flashcards
Serum Cortisol
4 pm
3-13 mcg/dL
Or
83-359 nomol/L
Serum Cortisol
8:00 am
5-23 mcg/dL
Or
138-635nmol/L
Urine Cortisol
Less than (< 100mcg/24hr
Or
276 nmol/day (SI units)
ACTH
Am
Less than (<80 pg/ml
Or
80 pmo/L (SI Units)
ACTH
PM
Less than (< 50 pg/mL
Or
<11 pmo/L (SI units)
Serum Glucose
< 200
Serum NA
136 - 145
Serum K
3.5 -5.0
WBC
5,000 - 10,000
17 - Hydrocorticosteroids
Male 3-10mg/24hr h
Female 2-8mg/24hr
High - Cushing
Low- Addison disease
17- HYDTOXYCORTICOSTEROIDS
17(OHS) interfering factors
Stress : E-P (infection
DO NOT EAT LICORICE (cause increased adrenal activity)
Drugs that cause increase -
17 - Ketosteroid
Male 6-20
Female 6-17
Monitors andrenal hyperplasia
VMA
< 6.8/24hr
Interfering factors
Foods- Tea, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, cider vinegar, licorice, soda
STOP TAKING LEVADOPA 24hrs before the specimen is obtained
Free Catecholamines
< 100 mcg/24hr
Epinephrine
< 20 mcg/24hr
Norepinephrine
<100 mcg/24hr
Dopamine
Adult/elderly
65-400 mcg/24hr
Metanephrine
< 1.3mg/24hr
Normetanephrine
15-80 mcg/24hr
BEFORE VMA
RESTRICTIONS
2 or 3 days before and throughout the 24-hr collection
Avoid- coffee, tea, bananas, chocolate, cocoa, licorice, citrus fruit, all foods and fluid containing vanilla and aspirin.
USE PRESERVATIVE KEEP ON ICE
Let them have foods afterwards