Laboratory Medicine ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (7): 623-626.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2016.07.019

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Status of clinical application of ionized calcium determination and corrected calcium concentration equation

WU Jiong, PAN Baishen   

  1. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032,China
  • Received:2015-02-06 Online:2016-07-30 Published:2016-08-10

Abstract:

Total calcium is consisted of ionized calcium and physiologically inactive calcium(mainly associated with albumin,as well as bicarbonate,citrate and lactate). Monitoring patients' calcium status is not straightforward, because both ionized and total calcium determinations are commonly available for clinical interpretation,and each has advantages and disadvantages. Total calcium is more convenient to be measured than ionized calcium,and is more frequently used by clinical laboratories. However,total calcium can not represent patients' calcium status correctly in some specific clinical situations. This review focuses on the research status of corrected calcium concentration equation,ionized calcium and total calcium.

Key words: Total calcium, Ionized calcium, Corrected calcium concentration equation

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