At a glance
| Analyte | Total beta human chorionic gonadotropin |
|---|---|
| Also called | Beta hCG, hCG, Total beta-hCG, Pregnancy test |
| Method | Two-site sandwich chemiluminescence immunoassay |
| Sample type | Serum, Plasma |
| Panel | Fertility |
| Discipline | CLIA immunoassay |
| Brand | Mindray |
What Total β-hCG measures
Human chorionic gonadotropin is produced by the developing placenta, and a quantitative serum measurement does considerably more than the qualitative urine test that most people picture. Because it gives a number rather than a yes or no, it can be repeated over days and read as a rate of change, and that pattern is what makes it useful in an early pregnancy of uncertain location or viability. It is also measured in trophoblastic follow-up under a physician’s direction. The distinction from a urine test matters for the laboratory: a request for a quantitative beta-hCG is asking for something a dipstick cannot provide, and it is often being ordered precisely because the situation is unclear.
How Philippine laboratories run it
Philippine obstetric and emergency services generate steady demand for the quantitative assay, and much of it is urgent, since the clinical questions it supports concern early pregnancy problems that are being assessed the same day. Requests frequently arrive as serial samples on one patient over a few days, so a single request often means several determinations. Laboratories should plan for that multiplier and for out-of-hours availability, because a beta-hCG requested from an emergency department at night is not a test that waits for the morning run.
Analyzers it runs on
Calibrator, controls and companion tests
Delivered with the rest of the fertility panel, on the same schedule as Total β-hCG.
Storage and handling
Refrigerated, upright, and not frozen.
Buying Total β-hCG in the Philippines
Total β-hCG is supplied for the CL-2600i and CL-900i. We deliver it with FSH and Prolactin, because a run held up waiting on a separate order costs the same shift a stock-out does. Delivery is scheduled against your monthly Total β-hCG count, so the bench is not rationing tests in the last week of the month. How we plan clia immunoassay supply.
Questions about Total β-hCG
How is this different from a urine pregnancy test?
A urine test gives a positive or negative answer at a fixed threshold. This assay gives a concentration, which can be repeated over days and read as a rate of change. That is what allows it to support the assessment of an early pregnancy whose location or viability is uncertain, where a single yes or no answers nothing useful.
Order Total β-hCG
Tell us your monthly Total β-hCG volume and we will quote a supply schedule for CL-2600i. We reply within one business day.
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