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Referred Tests

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Referred Tests

The following referred tests should be requested on a Haematology request form and the Department will make arrangements to send the sample on.

Abnormal Haemoglobinopathies:

The Department offers a comprehensive haemoglobinopathy screening service, however occasionally samples are referred for further analysis or confirmatory testing. Laboratory staff will refer samples if appropriate.

Unidentified haemoglobin variants:

Haematology Department
Haemoglobinopathy Laboratory
Central Middlesex Hospital
Acton Lane
London
NW10 7NS
 
or
 
Genotyping of Haemoglobin Disorders
Oxford Regional Genetics Laboratory
Churchill Hospital
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7LE

Pyruvate Kinase:

Pyruvate Kinase assays are referred to:

Specialist Red Cell Centre
Synnovis Hub Site
Floor 2, Friars Bridge Court
41-43 Blackfriars Road
London
SE1 8NZ

Positive Malaria Results:

When a positive malaria result is obtained we are required to refer blood films to the Malaria Reference Laboratory:

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
 

Dye Binding Test for Hereditary Spherocytosis (EMA):

Haematology Department
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Steelhouse Lane
B4 6NH
 
Please call the laboratory on 0121 424 0908 prior to sample collection
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