LDH Test

Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) Test

What is LDH test?

Lactate dehydrogenase blood test is useful to measure the lactic acid dehydrogenase in your body. During any illness or injury, the cells get damaged and release lactate dehydrogenase into the bloodstream. Thus if the lactate dehydrogenase levels are increased it may indicate tissue damage. This test helps in diagnosing acute or chronic cell damage.

What is Lactate dehydrogenase?

Lactate dehydrogenase enzyme is essential for converting sugar into energy for your cells. Lactate dehydrogenase is present in many organs and tissues throughout the body like the liver, pancreas, heart, blood cells, kidneys, skeletal muscles, lymph tissue, etc. There are five different isoenzymes of lactate dehydrogenase, they are LDH-1, LDH-2, LDH-3, LDH-4, and LDH-5. LDH-1 is found mostly in heart and red blood cells, LDH-2 is found in the heart and red blood cells, LDH-3 is found in lungs, lymph tissue, pancreas, platelets, LDH-4 is found mostly in the liver and skeletal muscle and LDH-5 is also found in liver and skeletal muscle.

This test may be recommended to you if you had a heart attack, low red blood cell count, blood cancer, lymph cancer or may have damaged tissue. This test is also recommended if you are on therapy and to check if the medicines are working efficiently.

LDH Test result interpretations

Some medicines may affect your lactate dehydrogenase blood test results such as aspirin, narcotic drugs like opium, morphine, methadone, etc, anesthetics may raise your test results. Certain conditions like break down of red blood cells or if the sample is contaminated your test results will be higher. Autoimmune diseases like lupus erythematosus and advanced cancers may elevate the levels of lactate dehydrogenase. Medicines rich in ascorbic acid may decrease the test results. Alcohol also affects lactate dehydrogenase blood test results.

If your lactate dehydrogenase test results are higher than the normal range it may indicate organ or tissue damage. If your overall isoenzymes are higher than normal it may indicate damage of the heart, liver, lungs, and kidney. High levels of lactate dehydrogenase may indicate many conditions because it is present in many types of cells. Most of the conditions which it may indicate are cerebrovascular accident (stroke), hemolytic anemia, pancreatitis, heart attack, hepatitis, muscle injury or muscular dystrophy (muscle weakness or muscular dystrophy), death of the tissue, septic shock, infections, blood flow deficiency, low blood pressure, leukemia (blood cancer), lymphoma (lymph cancer), etc

Note:

• Overnight fasting is not required
• Doctor’s prescription may be needed
• The normal test result may vary depending on gender, age, health history, etc.
• Home visit collection facility available for the test amount above ₹499

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