Test Overview
Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA), Monkey kidney substrate.
To detect presence of and/or determine titer of serum antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies in patients with suspected Goodpasture's syndrome and antiglomerular basement membrane antibody induced glomerulonephritis.
Negative.
Test Details
8 hours
- AGBM
- Anti GBM
- Anti Glomerular Basement Membrane
- Anti-GBM
- Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Antibody
- GBM
- Goodpasture's Antibody
- AGBM
- Anti GBM
- Anti Glomerular Basement Membrane
- Anti-GBM
- Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Antibody
- GBM
- Goodpasture's Antibody
- Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane Antibody
- AGBMT
- ANTI GLOMERULAR BASE MBR ANTIB
- ANTI-GMB TITER
- ANTI-GBM TITER
Specimen Requirements
Collect specimen in SST tube. Centrifuge, aliquot serum into a plastic vial and refrigerate up to 3 days. Specimen should be frozen if it's not going to be received in Immunology within 3 days of collection.
Additional Information
If the screen is positive, a titer will be performed at an additional charge. By ordering this test the clinician acknowledges that additional reflex testing will be performed and billed at a separate additional charge if indicated. Test includes pathologist interpretation of results billed as a separate additional charge. This test is not available without interpretation. The two principal mechanisms of autoimmune renal disease are those of immune complex deposition with complement activation and those due to antibodies to the renal glomerular basement membrane.