>Peter Vervaart wrote:
>> A quick and simple test we used to use was to measure the "Hb" with a
>> urine dip stick (Trinder based) before and after filtration through a 30
>> 000 MWt cut off filter.
Mike Collins wrote:
>>............. to give a false positive myoglobin. ..............
>We considered trying a second filtration but went for an immunological test
instead.
I seem to remember that one of the problems we had with the filtration
method was false negatives when the myoglobin concentration was v. high -
due to some binding between the molecules? Dilution appeared to increase the
number of positives. At that stage we changed to an immunological technique.
Regards, Ken
Ken Robertson,
Senior Scientist I/C (External Research),
Laboratory Management Unit, Royal Perth Hospital.
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