Copper, 24-hour Urine

Client Notes:

24hr jug is acid washed - Please send to the Laboratory in this container.

Specimen Requirements

7.0 mL aliquot from a well mixed 24 hour Urine Acid Washed Metal Free (trace element controled) Plastic Container into Clear trace metal-free collection tube.
 

Alternate Specimen

TransportAndStorage

5 days Ambient
5 days Refrigerated (Preferred)
2 weels Frozen

Collection Instructions

1. When starting the 24-hour period, urinate and discard (throw-away) this specimen. NOTE THE TIME
2. From that time on, collect all urine by urinating into a clean container and transfer into the provided container. 
DO NOT URINATE DIRECTLY INTO CONTAINER.
3. Try to pass the last urine just prior to the end of the 24 hour period. Add this urine into the container. 
4. Urine Specimen should be kept refrigerated during and after collection. 

Printable Patient Collection Instructions

English 24 Hour Urine Collection

Spanish 24 Hour Urine Collection 

Burmese 24 Hour Urine Collection

Arabic 24 Hour Urine Collection 

Minimum Volume

3.0 mL

Neonatal Volumne

Reference Range:

Copper, Urine: 2 - 30 ug/L

Detection Limit: 1 ug/L

Test Comments:

Patients with Wilson disease may have values greater than 50 ug/L.

Methodology:

• Inductively Coupled Plasma / Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS)

CPT Coding

82525