Abstract：
:I have reviewed many of the methods available for the assessment of fetal lung maturity. The difficulty of using diagnostic tests for diseases of low prevalence has been discussed. By reviewing the nature of the amniotic fluid surfactant material, and some of the principles underlying analytical methods, the bases of some of the recurring methodologic problems have been pointed out. It is concluded that a number of reasonably straightforward tests will provide information of essentially the same utility as more costly, difficult, and time-consuming assays commonly employed.
journal_name
Clin Lab Medjournal_title
Clinics in laboratory medicineauthors
Dubin SBsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-09-01 00:00:00pages
603-20issue
3eissn
0272-2712issn
1557-9832journal_volume
12pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:In marked contrast to their historical classification as relatively harmless, common cold-causing, respiratory pathogens, human coronaviruses (HCoVs) are associated with more severe clinical complications, as emphasized by the discovery of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated CoV (SARS-CoV) in 2003. Still, the...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2009.07.007
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Methodologic aspects including causes of factitious hyperphosphatemia and hypophosphatemia are summarized. The differential diagnosis of hyperphosphatemia is reviewed under its three broad causes: decreased glomerular filtration rate, increased exogenous or endogenous phosphate load, and increased renal tubular phosph...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To date, CRP remains the single standard biochemical marker for predicting the severity of AP. Because the combination of clinico-physiological scores and CRP provides good information at 48 hours, research has focused on the predictive ability of various markers when applied in the initial 24 hours after admission to...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2004.12.003
更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Certain serum autoantibodies serve as useful diagnostic markers in AiLD; however, the etiology and pathogenesis of AiLD remain unknown. Although AiLD is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies and other humoral immune abnormalities, there is significant evidence that cell-mediated immune mechanisms are critica...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Advances in computing speed and power have made a pure digital work flow for pathology. New technologies such as whole slide imaging (WSI), multispectral image analysis, and algorithmic image searching seem poised to fundamentally change the way in which pathology is practiced. This article provides the practicing pat...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2012.07.006
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The optimal care of septic patients depends on the successful recovery of clinically relevant microorganisms from blood cultures and the timely reporting of organism identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results. Many preanalytic factors play a critical role in culturing microorganisms, and adv...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2020.07.001
更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:All clinical laboratory testing in the United States is regulated by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA'88 or CLIA) and overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CLIA profoundly changed the prevailing United States regulatory philosophy by imposing uniform requirements for a...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2009.06.012
更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Bioregulators are naturally occurring organic compounds that regulate a multitude of biologic processes. Under natural circumstances, bioregulators are synthesized in minute quantities in a variety of living organisms and are essential for physiologic homeostasis. In the wrong hands, these compounds have the capabilit...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2006.03.007
更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:At the present time, the use of molecular techniques for diagnosing the neurologic porphyrias is limited mainly to those laboratories doing research in the area. Because any of four genes may be involved, it is important to confirm the diagnosis in the index case before undertaking molecular investigation. With advanc...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article reviews the concept of dysplasia and the distinguishing features of dysplastic nevi, including their premalignant potential, their biologic markers of tumor progression, and their reproducibly recognizable clinical and histologic characteristics. An additional emphasis is placed on describing gray zone m...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Direct-to-consumer genetic testing came on the scene 2 decades ago as a means for allowing consumers to access their genetic information without the involvement of a physician or genetic counselor. Results are delivered directly to the consumer, often leading to misinterpretation and needless medical interventions or ...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2019.11.003
更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The subject of this article is privacy and its relationship to the activities of health care organizations. Privacy is a good quality that each individual may possess. The quality of an individual's privacy is a personal determination. Although everyday life requires that we attempt to understand and protect the priva...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:At the start of the twenty-first century, a dramatic change occurred in the clinical laboratory community. Concepts from Metrology, the science of measurement, began to be formally applied to clinical laboratory field methods, resulting in a new appreciation of metrological calibrator traceability. It is a change beca...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2016.09.010
更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:ALP is a profoundly ubiquitous enzyme that originates in many, if not all, mammalian tissues. The development of a simple ISEF technique has allowed reflection of at least 12 cellular components. Improvements in technique may add further zones of information. The aura of darkness surrounding ALP is being slowly dissip...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Contemporary bacterial serology relevant to medicine involves poly- and monoclonal antibodies to study pathogenic bacteria and nonpathogenic organisms useful in controlling infectious diseases. Monoclonal antibody applications include immunodiagnostics, prophylaxis and serotherapy, and microbial biotechnology and mole...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It is necessary to determine the safety of polymeric materials through laboratory and animal testing before biomedical use can become more widespread. This article describes many of the methods used in analyzing the toxicology and biocompatibility of potentially important biomedical polymers. The study method used in ...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:With emerging antimicrobial resistance, rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is needed to provide early definitive therapeutic guidance to optimize patient outcome. Genotypic methods are fast, but can identify only a subset of known resistance elements. Phenotypic methods determine clinically predictive mi...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2019.04.001
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The pathologist, by virtue of his or her observations and documentation of injuries with concomitant attempts to discern patterns of injury and correlate autopsy findings with investigative details, will often play an integral and primary role in the death investigation process. The information gleaned during this pro...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Salmonella, Shigella, and Yersinia cause a well-characterized spectrum of disease in humans, ranging from asymptomatic carriage to hemorrhagic colitis and fatal typhoidal fever. These pathogens are responsible for millions of cases of food-borne illness in the United States each year, with substantial costs measured i...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2015.02.002
更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There are many types of ANA and they may react with different nuclear components varying from nucleic acids to both basic and acidic nuclear proteins. Recent investigations have demonstrated that it is important not only to detect the presence and quantity of the ANA, but also to identify the immunologic specificities...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The myelodysplastic syndromes are bone marrow stem cell disorders that result in disorderly and ineffective hematopoiesis. They are prognostically heterogenous. Approximately one third of cases evolve to acute myeloid leukemia. Many additional cases terminate in severe bone marrow failure. The French-American-British ...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Autoimmune aPL are associated with a well-defined clinical syndrome of vascular thromboses, recurrent fetal loss, thrombocytopenia, livedo reticularis, and valvular and neurologic abnormalities. A clinical diagnosis of SLE need not be present, and aPL syndrome in the absence of other well-defined autoimmune disease is...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Nephropathy progressing to end-stage renal failure is a common complication of diabetes mellitus. The development of diabetic nephropathy is preceded for many years by minor increases in urine albumin excretion (microalbuminuria), and some diabetologists believe that by reducing or reversing this early abnormality, po...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Advances in molecular genetics have had a major impact on our understanding of the pathogenesis of neurologic disorders. This article discusses molecular genetic contributions to our knowledge of Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as their implications for diagnosis a...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To answer the question of whether reference values are useful in clinical decision-making, this article addresses the following major controversies: (1) Are reference subjects representative of the group from which they are selected? (2) To what extent should the process of collecting reference values be standardized ...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Bacteria were the first organisms recognized for their potential as agents of bioaggression and the possibility of their use by a terrorist or rogue nation is considered a significant threat. Five of the more likely agents (anthrax, plague, tularemia, Q fever, and brucellosis) are reviewed with emphasis on their epide...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article attempts to define and identify sources of variation in laboratory analysis that occur predominantly "away" from the analytic bench. Problems in the derivation and application of reference ranges are reviewed and sources of non-analytic error are "located" within the entire testing cycle. Reference source...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:When one looks at the field of molecular pathology or transplantation, it is evident that molecular biology has made a positive impact on medicine. However, the progress in transfusion medicine has been slower and more cautious than in other areas of the clinical laboratory. To understand where the field may go in the...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2010.02.004
更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The importance of food-borne helminthic infections is not well recognized and has not received the same attention as food-borne bacterial infections. Poverty, overpopulation, and cultural practices contribute to conditions that maintain food-borne helminthic infections. The development of better means of transportatio...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Differentiation between procedure-related necrosis and postprocedural myocardial infarction (MI) is challenging because of the inherent association of these procedures to varying levels of myocardial injury. To improve risk stratification of patients at risk of an acute MI, the universal definition of MI implemented c...
journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.cll.2013.11.013
更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
