Renal Function Tests: A Clinical Laboratory Perspective

A review on laboratory liver function tests

Laboratory liver tests are broadly defined as tests useful in the evaluation and treatment of patients with hepatic dysfunction. The liver carries out metabolism of carbohydrate, protein and fats. Some of the enzymes and the end products of the metabolic pathway which are very sensitive for the abnormality occurred may be considered as biochemical marker of liver dysfunction. Some of the bioche...

Laboratory tests of platelet function.

Diagnostic Tests and Clinical, Laboratory and Radiological Charactersitics of COVID-19 in Pregnant Women: A Review

The emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease and the definitive gold standard for its diagnosis in pregnancy has not yet been established. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of reviewing the diagnostic methods and clinical, laboratory and radiological symptoms of COVID-19 disease in pregnant women. The present study is a Narrative review. To do so, the keywords ...

Interference in laboratory tests

Interference in clinical laboratory testing can create discrepancies in test results which can lead to patient harm.  In clinical chemistry, interference is defined as a cause of medically significant difference in the measurand test result due to another component or property of the sample. Interference by endogenous and exogenous substances with assays for clinical analytes is a common prob...

Renal Function Tests in Nephritis

'IFIIERE iS mlluChi truth in the statenient that the laboratory is the pacemaker of me(lical progress, but yet, when we come to critically exaninle our knowledge of impaired renal function, we realize that, at least as far as the study of renal disease is concerned, the advance has not been very great. It is from the standpoint of reviewing the problems that confront us when we are asked to exa...