Does Lipemia interfere with the assays?
Lipemia has the potential to affect the bile acid, canine and feline TLI and PLI assays. Severe lipemia interferes with the assay methods that we use, and can lead to spuriously high or low results. Mild lipemia (the serum looks cloudy/opalescent but you can see through it) is usually not a great problem, we will attempt to centrifuge out the lipids before starting the assays. If we receive a sample that we judge is too severely lipemic to give accurate results we will attempt to contact you before running the assay, to see if a redraw of serum is possible.
