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lysozyme in urine
Indications:
- evaluation of acute monocytic leukemia & to a lesser extent acute myelomonocytic leukemia
Reference interval:
- < 4 ug/mL (urine)
Increases:
1) large increases (serum, urine)
- acute monocytic leukemia
- acute myelomonocytic leukemia
- proximal renal tubule damage (urine only)
2) moderate increases (serum, urine)
- chronic myelocytic leukemia
- polycythemia vera
- renal failure
- tuberculosis
- sarcoidosis
- megaloblastic anemia
- Crohn's disease
- ulcerative colitis
- acute bacterial infection
Decreases:
- neutropenia with bone marrow suppression
Related
muramidase or lysozyme
Specific
lysozyme in 24 hour urine
General
lysozyme in body fluid (serum/plasma/urine/CSF)
References
- Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests, 4th edition, HB Wu ed,
WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 2006
- Urine Lysozyme
Laboratory Test Directory ARUP: 50368
Component-of
lysozyme/creatinine in urine