Hospital laboratory inventory management.

abstract：:An obvious advantage of a combined PAP and PSA measurement is the increased sensitivity of detection. Furthermore, the use of both markers in monitoring patients with prostatic carcinoma offers the advantage of a greater number of patients with objective parameters for follow-up. ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Saito Y

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Bath salts" has attracted young adults primarily due to its stimulatory and hallucinogenic effects akin to amphetamines and cocaine. Although other designer amines have been incorporated to newer generation "bath salts", synthetic cathinones remain to be their major component. This article discusses our current under...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Gerona RR,Wu AH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most of the diagnostic applications of flow cytometry bring forth examples of leukocyte immunophenotyping for immunodeficiency diseases and leukemia-lymphoma diagnosis, the same technology has improved medical assessment of diseases affecting the red cell and erythropoiesis. Flow cytometric methods were first...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Davis BH

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for clinical outcomes associated with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) has been ongoing for a decade. This article focuses on the clinical use of tests for the detection of aPL. A review of the current thinking regarding the pathophysiology of antiphospholipid syndromes is relevant to the discussion of dif...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Reyes H,Dearing L,Bick RL,Shoenfeld Y,Peter JB

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular biological techniques have evolved expeditiously and in turn have been applied to the detection of infectious disease. Maturation of these technologies and their coupling with related technological advancement in fluorescence, electronics, digitization, nanodynamics, and sensors among others have afforded cl...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Fairfax MR,Bluth MH,Salimnia H

更新日期：2018-06-01 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

authors： Statland BE,Winkel P

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles, technique of measurement, and clinical significance of free drugs are reviewed. Albumin, alpha-1-acid glycoprotein, and lipoprotein are the main drug-binding proteins in blood. Variations of the concentrations of these proteins owing to disease would result in changes in the free drug levels. These lev...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Chan S,Gerson B

更新日期：1987-06-01 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

authors： Gonzalez MD,Chao T,Pettengill MA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the inception of TBS in 1988, it has been well received by the pathology and clinical communities. The need for a unifying system of nomenclature was so great that most of the laboratories in the United States, as well as in numerous countries worldwide, quickly adopted TBS. By 1991, only 2 years after the initia...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Henry MR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Market forces and service demands are driving a segment of laboratory testing away from centralized laboratories and closer to the patient's bedside. Placed into a historical perspective, this should be neither surprising nor distressing. Terminology is being clarified and professional societies are beginning to take ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Handorf CR

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exciting era exists as a result of the introduction of novel markers of myocardial damage. The prognostic implications of troponins, even in the setting of "minor myocardial damage," are potentially of immense value to patient care. We need to take the next step and assess the outcomes of interventions in these set...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Tymchak WJ,Armstrong PW

更新日期：1997-12-01 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

abstract：:The blood film is one of the world's most widely and frequently used tests and has undergone remarkably few changes since its introduction in the late 1800s. This article gives direction and some standardization in the preparation of blood films used for morphologic evaluation in the clinical laboratory. Methodologies...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Houwen B

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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

authors： Bachner P

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple, inexpensive procedures for rapid identification of the common bacterial pathogens are outlined in detail. When the tests are judiciously applied, most isolates can be identified within minutes or hours, and strains that require more extensive testing for accurate identification will be recognized. ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Barry AL

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To leverage the time and expertise of the pathologist, a comprehensive workstation is a useful tool. Because the practice of pathology is so diverse, however, there is no one standard for what constitutes a workstation. The author reviews the several elements and components which must be included (access to your LIS, ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Aller RD

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:Concern for illicit and restricted drug use in otolaryngology is similar to other surgical specialties with a few notable exceptions. Many illicit drugs are consumed transnasally. Repeated nasal exposure to stimulants or narcotics can cause local tissue destruction that can present as chronic rhinosinusitis or nasosep...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Gonik NJ,Bluth MH

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis (low bone mass) depends on the peak bone mass attained and bone loss after the peak. Sex steroids (estrogens and androgens) have an impact on both processes. In this article the roles and mechanisms of estrogens and androgens are discussed in relation to clinical osteoporosis. Other hormones and hormone-l...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Adler RA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews congenital melanocytic nevi (CMN), which are present at birth or appear shortly thereafter, and their main histologic features. Several histologic variants and histopathologic criteria that differentiate CMN from other nevi, such as atypical or dysplastic nevi, and from nevoid malignant melanoma, ...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Zayour M,Lazova R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decision model was developed to evaluate the costs and benefits of further reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted disease. The model addresses recipient risk factors as well as operational considerations. Application of the model to prior risk reduction decisions documents its validity as a decision-making too...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Hanson M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale clinical databases provide a detailed perspective on patient phenotype in disease and the characteristics of health care processes. Important information is often contained in the relationships between the values and timestamps of sequences of clinical data. The analysis of clinical time sequence data acro...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Post AR,Harrison JH Jr

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:There are multiple levels of transcriptional regulation that a cell can bring to bear on either native cellular genes or integrated proviral genes. One such level of regulation is inducible sequence-specific transcriptional factors, such as NF-kappa B, which have been extensively investigated with respect to the HIV-1...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Laughlin MA,Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporine (CsA) monitoring has remained controversial since the advent of the use of CsA in organ transplantation in the early 1980s. This article attempts to clarify for the clinical laboratory worker many of the vagaries associated with CsA monitoring by considering choice of sample matrix, the nature of metaboli...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Napoli KL,Kahan BD

更新日期：1991-09-01 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

authors： Moulds JM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the surgical pathology of the vulva include updated classifications of non-neoplastic epithelial disorders and vulvar intraepithelial neoplasias. Several histologic variants of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with distinct clinicopathologic features have been described. The concept of super...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Johnson TL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interpretation of the total serum testosterone concentration is problematic because it is related directly to the serum SHBG concentration.Frequently, an estimate of the serum free testosterone concentration is obtained to better assess the clinical status of the patient. We reviewed five methods for the determina...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Elin RJ,Winters SJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolism covers a range of conditions from deep vein thrombosis to pulmonary embolism. Treatment aims to alleviate symptoms, minimize acute morbidity and mortality by preventing the extension or potentially fatal embolization of the initial thrombus, and avoid postthrombotic syndrome. Anticoagulant thera...

journal_title：Clinics in laboratory medicine

authors： Al-Badri A,Spyropoulos AC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00