Basic Metabolic Panel Plus

Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)

Renal and metabolic diseases.

Calcium (Ca)

Parathyroid, bone and chronic renal diseases; tetany.

Chloride (Cl-)

Dehydration, prolonged diarrhea and vomiting, renal tubular disease, hyperparathyroidism, burns, salt-losing renal diseases, over hydration and thiazide therapy.

Creatinine (CRE)

Renal disease and monitoring of renal dialysis.

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate [Calculated] (eGFR*)

Identify individuals with reduced kidney function and help facilitate the detection of CKD.

Glucose (GLU)

Carbohydrate metabolism disorders, including adult and juvenile diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia

Potassium (K+)

Renal glomerular or tubular disease, adrenocortical insufficiency, diabetic ketacidosis, excessive intravenous potassium therapy, sepsis, panhypopituitarism, in vitro hemolysis, hyperaldosteronism, malnutrition, hyperinsulinism, metabolic alkalosis and gastrointestinal loss.

Lactate-Dehydrogenase (LDH)

Magnesium (Mg)

Hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia.

Sodium (Na+)

Dehydration, diabetes insipidus, loss of hypotonic gastrointestinal fluids, salt poisoning, selective depression of sense of thirst, skin losses, burns, sweating, hyperaldosteronism, CNS disorders, dilutional, depletional and delusional hyponatremia and syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion.

Total carbon dioxide (tCO₂)

Primary metabolic alkalosis and acidosis and primary respiratory alkalosis and acidosis.