What does lipemic plasma mean?

What does lipemic plasma mean?

Lipemia is defined as visible turbidity in serum or plasma samples due to the presence of lipoprotein particles, especially chylomicrons. The most common cause of turbidity is a high concentration of triglycerides [1,2].

What color will the fluid portion of the blood be if lipemia has occurred?

Lipemic Serum or Plasma (Turbidity) Normal serum or plasma is a clear and light yellow to straw in color. Turbid serum or plasma appears cloudy or milky. Serum or plasma may be cloudy due to bacterial contamination or chronic or transient high lipid levels in the patient’s blood.

How do you get rid of lipemia?

Centrifugation. A recommended procedure for treating lipemic samples is centrifugation using ultracentrifuge which effectively removes lipids and allows measurement of large number of analytes (42,43). However, due to the high cost, this equipment it is not available in a large number of laboratories.

How do you identify a lipemic sample?

Lipemia can be detected visually if the concentration of triglycerides in patient sample is over 3.4 mmol/L (32). In the full blood samples, visual detection is very hard and can be observed at much higher concentration of triglycerides (over 11.3 mmol/L) (32).

Why does serum look milky?

Triglycerides greater than 1000 mg per dL (11.3 mmol per L) can easily cause this appearance. Or your patient may simply have eaten a large fatty meal a few hours before having the blood sample drawn. Another component of blood that creates a milky appearance is chylomicrons – a combination of fat globules and protein.

Does blood turn white?

Blood plasma, normally clear, turns milky white when levels of cholesterol and other fatty substances become to high.

What makes plasma green?

Green plasma, on the other hand, has been attributed to elevated levels of a copper-containing pigment called ceruloplasmin. Hormonal medications, like the pill, can cause higher levels of ceruloplasmin in the body. Infections and medical dyes used in diagnostic procedures can also cause green plasma.