Archives mensuelles: October 2016
Coproculture
Indications:
It is a stool test for detecting the pathogen responsible for infectious diarrhea. It is also carried out in the following cases:
- Febrile diarrhea;
-...
Cocaine
Indications:
Research in the urine signs of cocaine intoxication.
Principle:
Can be detected in urine, 4 to 6 days after the last dose, the excretion of cocaine...
HIV viral load
Indications:
This examination is an aid to prognosis and especially the monitoring of anti-HIV therapy.
Principle:
The virus is either within the cell or in the plasma...
Urinary Catecholamines
Indications:
The test is useful in diagnosing tumors of the adrenal pheochromocytoma kind.
Principle:
The Secret medulla adrenaline and noradrenaline. Both catecholamines are measurable in the urine.
Technique:
Urine...
Calcemia
Indications:
The measurement of plasma calcium is useful whenever the suspected disorder of calcium metabolism, whether from bone - primary storage location - or bowel,...
Bilirubin
Indications:
The blood test of bilirubin can detect liver disease and hemolysis.
Principle:
Bilirubin is a pigment from the breakdown of hemoglobin, unconjugated or indirect. It undergoes...
Antistreptolysin 0 (ASO)
Indications:
Streptococcal infection is detected by the presence of ASO (antistreptolysin O), group A, C or G Lancefield.
On the research in the following diseases: rheumatic...
Apolipoproteins AI, AII, B
Indications:
Doser apolipoprotein (Apo) AI and AII way of measuring high density lipoprotein considered to be anti-atherogenic.Instead of apolipoprotein B which is her atherogenic.
Principle:
Lipids circulate...
Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA)
Indications:
CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) has an identity with an antigen of the mucous colic embryo, from which it takes its name, and is associated with...
CA 125 Antigen
Indications:
This is not a diagnostic test, the purpose to review the monitoring of epithelial ovarian cancer.
Principle:
A monoclonal antibody allows to highlight an antigen not...
