Guide to Diagnostic Tests
- acid–base disturbance: laboratory characteristics of primary or single acid–base disturbance
- anemia: diagnosis of common anemias based on red cell indices
- anemia: laboratory evaluation of microcytic, hypochromic anemias
- apixaban
- argatroban
- arthritis: examination and classification of synovial (joint) fluid
- ascites: ascitic fluid profiles in various disease states
- autoantibodies: frequency (%) of autoantibodies in rheumatic diseases
- bivalirudin
- bleeding disorders: laboratory evaluation
- breast cancer brca1 and brca2 mutations
- cerebrospinal fluid (csf): csf profiles in central nervous system diseases
- cirrhosis: child-pugh stages and model for end-stage liver disease (meld) scoring system
- cystic fibrosis mutation
- dabigatran
- duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd)
- edoxaban
- familial adenomatous polyposis (fap)
- fondaparinux
- fragile x syndrome
- hemochromatosis, hereditary
- hemophilia a
- heparin, low-molecular weight (lmwh) (eg, enoxaparin, dalteparin)
- heparin, unfractionated (ufh)
- hepatitis b virus infection: common serologic test patterns and their interpretation
- hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
- how to use this section
- huntington disease
- kennedy disease/spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (kd/sbma)
- leukemias and lymphomas: classification and immunophenotyping
- myotonic dystrophy (md)
- neurofibromatosis (nf): von recklinghausen disease (nf1) and bilateral acoustic nf (nf2)
- niemann-pick disease
- osmol gap: calculation and application in clinical toxicology
- phenylketonuria (pku)
- pleural effusion: pleural fluid profiles in various disease states
- prader-willi syndrome (pws), angelman syndrome (as)
- prenatal diagnostic methods: amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, and cordocentesis
- pulmonary function tests: interpretation in obstructive and restrictive pulmonary diseases
- ranson criteria for assessing severity of acute pancreatitis
- renal failure: classification and differential diagnosis
- renal tubular acidosis (rta): laboratory diagnosis
- rivaroxaban
- syphilis: clinical and laboratory diagnosis in untreated patients
- tay-sachs disease
- α-thalassemia
- β-thalassemia
- thalassemia syndromes: genetics and laboratory characteristics
- transfusion: summary chart of blood component therapy
- valvular heart disease: diagnostic evaluation
- warfarin