Thanks Jackie! However it’s testing seems more geared towards environmental metal toxicity than metal implants such as a watchman etc. plus Melisa offers more metals included in the alloys used for medical implants (3 for titanium alone) or even dental implants. Melisa knows exactly (I called) which metals to test fir a particular implant. For example :
Titanium alloy (panel E)
Titanium dioxide
Titanium sulphate
Aluminium
Vanadium
Nickel trace in titanium alloy at 0.003% but 50% in nitinol) watchman uses nitinol alloy.
Individual metals that could be used in pacemakers:
Titanium (panel E) see above
Iridium
Platinum
Gold (gold plated pacemakers are custom available with fda approval)
Thanks for the link. Genova was accepting Medicare in the past for my heart labs while Melisa is cash only plus a hefty shipping fee to Germany. If the delivery is prolonged one still gets charged at a discount rate for testing. I just thought it was worth sharing that they resumed testing.