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Archives annuelles: 2016
Blood Lead
Indications:
The main interest of the examination is to detect lead poisoning, whether occupational or environmental origin (or former habitat near an industrial site.
Principle:
Lead absorbed...
Natremia
Indications:
The review for the determination of main extracellular cation (sodium, Na), himself a good indicator of body hydration.
For example, in cases of diarrhea and...
Markers infartus infarction – myoglobin, troponin and isoenzyme of creatine kinase
Indications. principle:
Myocarditis necrosis first revealed by signs of suffering heart muscle and especially the myocyte that includes several types of protein:
- Cytoplasmic: these are...
Serum Potassium
Indications:
The monitoring of serum potassium can appreciate the blood level of a fundamental ke cation for muscle function like intestinal transit: potassium (K).
But it...
Blood Electrolytes
Indications:
Before different clinical presentations that may be suspected of fluid and electrolyte disorders, the test measures the major blood anions and cations:
- Cations are:...
Glycosylated Hemoglobin or Glycated
Indications:
The assay is useful in monitoring the effectiveness of diabetes care.
Principle:
hemoglobin HbA1c is a subfraction of HbA1c, which reacts with glucose.
The value found in...
Blood Culture
Indications:
Before high fever with chills, it comes to detect the abnormal presence in the blood of a bacterium which can thus be identified. Then...
hCG and β-hCG
Indications:
β-hCG of the assay allows early diagnosis of pregnancy, but mostly ectopic pregnancies.
It also can diagnose secreting tumors, and early detection of trisomy 21...
Thick Blood. Thin Smear
Indications:
The examination can detect the presence in the blood of malaria parasite: Plasmodium.
Principle:
The realization of a thick film can concentrate the maximum noise in...
Blood Sugar
Indications:
Blood sugar assay to diagnose possible anomalies of glucose metabolism, such as pancreatic insufficiency with insulin production deficit: what is diabetes.
But it is also...