If collecting at home please keep Kit refrigerated until delivered back to your providers, Parkview Physician Office.
Whole Blood in a Lavender Top Tube - EDTA from Mother
or
A cheek swab of Mother
and
Fresh Tissue from fetus or placenta.
Alternate Tissue Specimens:
chorionic villi
gestational sac
fetal skin
umbilical cord tissue
cytogenetic tissue cell pellets.
Tissue stable refrigerated for up to 30 days
Blood and cheek swab stable refrigerated for up to 14 days
Annora kit provides tube and swab
Tissue should be kept fresh, Do not place tissue or placenta in formalin.
If under 20 weeks- send the specimen with a Lav EDTA blood tube to pathology. Pathology Assistants will collect the tissue and place into the kit.
If over 20 weeks and not requireing an autopsy, collect fetal thigh muscle tissue and send out kit with orders printed from EPIC.
Refer to Interpretive Results
All fresh Products of Conception received in pathology will have this kit collected and held for 2 weeks in case testing is desired. Orders must be faxed to pathology within the 2 weeks requesting this testing. Pathology fax is 260-266-1679
1 week
N/A
Patient Billed