Rare-event analysis in flow cytometry.

abstract：:Routine biochemical tests generally include serum enzymes, proteins, and other markers useful for identifying hepatobiliary disease in dogs and cats. Obtaining results outside the reference intervals can occur with direct hepatocellular injury, enzyme induction by hepatocytes or biliary epithelium, or decreased hepati...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Chapman SE,Hostutler RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FNA cytology has been shown to be highly accurate in diagnosing malignant tumors. In gynecology, an overall accuracy of 94.5% in the differentiation between benign and malignant tumors has been reported. Despite many controversial views regarding its safety, aspiration cytology has been accepted as an innocuous proced...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Ganjei P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomorphological examination of aspirate smears remains the basic method to diagnose hematologic disorders and to evaluate treatment-related changes. Last-generation hematological analyzers can count, besides cells normally circulating in peripheral blood, some types of immature and abnormal cells, such as erythrobla...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： d'Onofrio G,Zini G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement of quality in clinical care can greatly benefit form continuous benchmarking with information based on laboratory data. To be most effective, the information is best provided in the form of real-time disease management decision support. Such an approach requires advances in the implementation of hospit...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Bissell MG

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening tests may help or harm the healthy subject and, therefore, must be selected and used carefully. Criteria for selection include characteristics of the disease(s), of the potential screening tests, and of the population(s) to be screened. An understanding of methods used to evaluate tests will allow the invest...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Mulley AG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membranous particles found in a variety of biofluids that encapsulate molecular information from the cell, which they originate from. This rich source of information that is easily obtained can then be mined to find diagnostic biomarkers. This article explores the current biological un...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Strotman LN,Linder MW

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacologic field that studies antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) has had a major impact on the choice and dosing regimens used for many antibiotics especially those used in the treatment of respiratory tract infections. PK/PD parameters are particularly important in light of increasing ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Andes D,Anon J,Jacobs MR,Craig WA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cause of colorectal cancer (CRC) is multifactorial, with genetic, molecular, inflammatory, and environmental risk factors. Recently, the gut microbiota has been recognized as a new environmental contributor to CRC in both animal models and human studies. An additional interplay of the gut microbiome with inflammat...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Cho M,Carter J,Harari S,Pei Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image processing applications in forensic pathology are becoming increasingly important. This article introduces basic concepts in image processing as applied to problems in forensic pathology in a non-mathematical context. Discussions of contrast enhancement, digital encoding, compression, deblurring, and other topic...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Oliver WR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive genomic assessments of the fetus while in utero have been made possible by the analysis of cell-free fetal DNA fragments from the serum of pregnant women, as part of a noninvasive prenatal testing screening strategy. Between 7% and 10% of total cell-free DNA in the maternal blood comes from placental troph...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Long AA,Abuhamad AZ,Warsof SL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic workup of a patient for possible PA is revisited in light of the vanishing Schilling test. The vagaries of testing for B12 and blocking antibodies are reexamined. The advantages and disadvantages of newer tests such as MMA and serum gastrin levels are catalogued. At this juncture in the evolution of new te...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Ward PC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a system for collecting usage metrics from widely distributed automation systems. An application that records and stores usage data centrally, calculates run times, and charts the data was developed. Data were collected over 20 months from at least 28 workstations. The application was used to plot...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Benn N,Turlais F,Clark V,Jones M,Clulow S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era of prenatal screening for serious birth defects began in the 1970s with the discovery that amniotic fluid and maternal serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) were increased in pregnancies affected by fetal open neural tube defects. Since then, prenatal screening has become a part of routine obstetric care. In...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Canick JA,Kellner LH,Bombard AT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are important enteric pathogens worldwide, causing diarrhea with or without blood visibly present and hemolytic uremic syndrome. STEC are unique among diarrheogenic E coli in producing Shiga toxin type 1 and type 2, the virulence factors responsible for bloody diarrhea and...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Hunt JM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In discussing quality assurance in the blood bank, where many of the standard statistical techniques of measuring accuracy simply do not apply, three questions come to mind: How much? How often? Who says? Because of severe changes in the prospective payment plan and a new interest in cost effectiveness, many transfusi...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： White KK,Silberstein LE

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the relationship between D-dimer concentration and patient age, gender, race, and renal function, and the role of D-dimer concentration as a predictor of in-hospital mortality, in a critically ill patient population. The results demonstrate there is a correlation between increased D-dimer concentra...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Spring JL,Winkler A,Levy JH

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe adverse drug reactions are a common cause of morbidity and mortality. Some of the most severe reactions are immunologically mediated and have been linked to specific HLA alleles. The mechanisms underlying HLA-associated drug hypersensitivity are complex and not fully understood. Recent findings have provided in...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Schutte RJ,Sun Y,Li D,Zhang F,Ostrov DA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current success in organ transplantation has been brought about by immunosuppressive therapy. Improvements in transplant outcome using these drugs have stalled, and an understanding of the pharmacogenomics of immunosuppressive dosing and response holds the greatest promise for advancing the use of these agents. ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Burckart GJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 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

authors： Sammaritano LR,Gharavi AE

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma represents a substantial source of risk within dermatology and dermatopathology. This article seeks to provide general pathologists, dermatologists and dermatopathologists with an overview of the basics principles of medical malpractice litigation, a review of the essentials of reporting and the importance of...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： High WA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapidly increasing body of evidence links human papillomavirus (HPV) to cervical neoplasia through epidemiologic associations, pathologic features, molecular detection, and mechanisms of oncogenesis. HPV is now accepted as the primary cause of cervical neoplasia and accounts for most of the risk factors traditionall...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： McLachlin CM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses several fundamental features of clinical flow cytometry. A practical overview of the technical and methodologic aspects of this fast-growing and increasingly important new clinical and investigative field is provided. The use of flow cytometry for the diagnosis and monitoring of various chronic ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Kipps TJ,Meisenholder G,Robbins BA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice that contain a proline to leucine mutation at amino acid 101 in the endogenous murine PrP gene have been produced by gene targeting. This line of mice was generated to model the mutation thought to be responsible for P102L GSS, a familial TSE disease in humans. Genetargeted 101LL mice showed no evidenc...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Barron RM,Manson JC

更新日期：2003-03-01 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

authors： Armbruster D

更新日期：2017-03-01 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

authors： McKenna RW,Allison PM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the US Food and Drug Administration's recent label change of warfarin to include genetic testing for warfarin sensitivity, manufacturers are developing assays, and laboratories are offering testing. This article describes the genetic variants for which testing is available. Current technologies and assays are com...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Lyon E,McMillin G,Melis R

更新日期：2008-12-01 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

authors： Hindmarsh JT

更新日期：1988-09-01 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

authors： Griffiths J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on current clinical laboratory testing to diagnose Alzheimer disease and monitor its progression throughout its disease course. Several clinically available tests focus on analysis of amyloid and tau levels in cerebrospinal fluid as well as autosomal dominant and risk factor genes. Although the cu...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Winder Z,Wilcock D,Jicha GA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of invasive fungal pneumonias by conventional culture methods is difficult to assess and often delayed. Nonmolecular fungal markers have emerged as an important adjunctive tool to support their diagnosis in combination with other clinical, radiologic, and microbiological criteria of invasive fungal diseases....

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Lamoth F,Alexander BD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00