ERBA Test Strips MicroalbuPHAN® and MicroalbuPHAN® LAURA

Diagnostic Strips PHAN

The test strips MicroalbuPHAN® a MicroalbuPHAN® LAURA are intended for semiquantitative determination of albumin and creatinine in urine and could be used for screening of microalbuminuria. Positive results should be confirmed by quantitative methods.

The clinical importance of the positive results of low concentrations of albumin in urine is the detection of the risk of the beginning of kidney damage. The microalbuminuria is the first indicator of the possibility of the incipiency of nephropathy, of other diabetes-related complications. It is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease and a risk factor in essential hypertension, and also an early marker of complications in diabetic pregnancy.

The test strip for visual evaluation of the microalbuminuria has been available for several years and has found a firm position, especially in laboratories of specialists - diabetologists.

Erba Lachema s.r.o. introduce a new test strip for objective evaluation of microalbuminuria in urine - MicroalbuPHAN® LAURA. The test strip is compatible with urine analysers LAURA® Smart.

Advantages of test strips MicroalbuPHAN® LAURA:

• Objective evaluation eliminates the mistakes of visual evaluation

• unified evaluation time (60 seconds)

• elimination of extremely coloured urine (using of compensation field)

Evaluation of Results:

• Semi-quantitative determination of microalbumin

• Semi-quantitative determination of creatinine

• Automatic calculation of the ratio of albumin/creatinine