The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Sugar chromatography (urine)

Sugar chromatography (urine)

Test performed as part of a urine metabolic screen. Qualitative test which can detect presence of sucrose, maltose, lactose and lactulose (all disaccharides) and fructose, glucose and galactose (monosaccharides).

Tube Plain Universal
ID 29991
Availability Weekdays
Turn Around 18 days
Send to Specialist Laboratory Medicine
Block 46
St James hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Collection Con Minimum volume: 0.5 mL (dependent on creatinine)

Instructions for lab: Send to Block 46. If storage required (overnight or over the weekend) store refrigerated at 2-8ºC.

Please discuss with Biochemical Genetics lab prior to rejecting any samples.
Frequency Weekly
Sample REQ Urine
Ref. Range Notes Descriptive report of results is provided. Contact Biochemical Genetics laboratory for further advice if required.
Telepath Urine sugar chromatography: STCU1J, Creatinine: CREU1J,
ICE Codes Urine sugar chromatography: LSTCU