Assay

Abnormal Haemoglobin Referral (Haemoglobin variant)

Key Words

Haemoglobinopathy, haemoglobin variant, mass spectroscopy

Specimen Collection

7.5ml EDTA. Patients should be aware that when giving us their family origin information and agreeing to antenatal family origin screening, we will where necessary provide this information to other healthcare professionals outside the Pathology department in order to provide appropriate antenatal care.

Referral

This test is referred to another centre for analysis: 

North West Genomic Laboratory

Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine

St Mary's Hospital

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9WL

Turnaround time

6 weeks from receipt at reference laboratory

Test indications

Haemoglobinopathy of unknown specificity

Interferences

Contact referral laboratory for information

Reference Range

Contact referral laboratory for information

Minimum retesting interval

 N/A