Laboratory findings

MacDonald, H., and Tobin, J. O. H. (1978). Congenital cytomegalovitiis infection A collaborative study on epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings. Dev. Med. Child Neurol. 20, 271-282. 

While still a student at the Academy, Ipatieffbegan to make a name for himself in the Russian chemical community as he began to publish some of his laboratory findings. His first professional milestone as a chemist came in 18h() when he joined Russia s Physical-Chemical Society. Here he came into close contact with Russia s most famous chemists, including Dimitri Mendeleev, discoverer of the periodic table and one of the founders ol the Society. In 1891, upon graduating from the school, he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Academy where he also continued to undertake original chemical research for his doctoral dissertation. In 1895, he was made assistant professor and, upon completion and acceptance of his dissertation in 1899, he became a full professor of chemistry. 

McLellan AT, Childress AR, Ehrman R, et al Extinguishing conditioned responses during opiate dependence treatment turning laboratory findings into clinical procedures. J Subst Abuse Treat 3 33 0, 1986... 

Many laboratories find it practical to keep separate records for these, which means that the sample numbering system for raw materials must be different from that used for finished products. Other laboratories lump everything together for the purpose of record keeping but have separate storage areas for the two types of samples. 

While some clinical and laboratory findings assist in the general diagnosis of ARF, others are used to differentiate between prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal ARF. For example, patients with prerenal ARF typically demonstrate enhanced sodium reabsorption, which is reflected by a low urine sodium concentration and a low fractional excretion of sodium. Urine is typically more concentrated with prerenal ARF and there is a higher urine osmolality and urine plasma creatinine ratio compared to intrinsic and postrenal ARF. 

Organ System Condition Pathophysiology/Laboratory Findings... 

What laboratory findings and/or diagnostic studies have been performed to help establish the presence of an infection ... 

Recommend appropriate empirical and definitive antimicrobial regimens when given a diagnosis, physical examination, and laboratory findings. 

Any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and that does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal (investigational) product, whether or not related to the medicinal (investigational) product. 

Ideally, to establish a causal relationship between caffeine and improved athletic performance, evidence would be obtained from epidemiological population studies, followed by careful, double-blind, placebo controlled experimental protocols isolating the purported etiological agent (caffeine), and eventually culminating with strong laboratory findings... 

Cliff, J., A. Martelli, A. Molin, and H. Rosling. 1984. Mantakassa an epidemic of spastic paraparesis associated with chronic cyanide intoxication in a cassava staple area of Mozambique. 1. Epidemiology and clinical and laboratory findings in patients. Bull. World Health Org. 62 477-484. 

The Child-Pugh classification system uses a combination of physical and laboratory findings to assess and define the severity of cirrhosis and is a predictor of patient survival, surgical outcome, and risk of variceal bleeding (Table 21-3). 

Laboratory findings of anemia of critical illness disease are similar to those of anemia of chronic disease. 

Laboratory findings include low hemoglobin increased reticulocyte, platelet, and white blood cell counts and sickle forms on the peripheral smear. 

The hallmark laboratory finding is continuous bacteremia three sets of blood cultures should be collected over 24 hours. 

Laboratory findings include leukocytosis with predominance of mature and immature granulocytes in 50% to 75% of patients. Because L. pneumophila stains poorly with commonly used stains, routine microscopic examination of sputum is of little diagnostic value. Fluorescent antibody testing can be performed to diagnose Legionnaires disease. 

Samples of your blood, urine, or feces can be tested to see if you were exposed to hexachloroethane. The tests are not routinely available at most doctors offices, but your doctor can collect blood, urine, or fecal samples and send them to a special laboratory for testing. These tests are useful only if you were exposed 24-48 hours before you saw the doctor. Your body changes hexachloroethane into the same compounds that it makes from other chemicals like tetrachloroethylene or pentachloroethane. Your body can also make hexachloroethane from carbon tetrachloride. Therefore, if a laboratory finds hexachloroethane in your body blood or excretions, your doctor will ask you if you were exposed to carbon tetrachloride. More information on medical tests that can be used to determine if you have been exposed to hexachloroethane is in Chapters 2 and 6. 

Diagnosis If signs and symptoms spelled out above are noted in large numbers of geographically clustered patients, exposure to aerosolized ricin is the suggested cause. The rapid time course of severe symptoms and death would be unusual for infectious agents. Laboratory findings are nonspecific except for specific serum ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). Acute and convalescent sera (plural of serum ) should be collected. 

Probable. This term is equivalent to the phrase consistent with, and cases in this category of certainty fall short of the causative designation because they lack an objective and quantitative laboratory finding that is the sine qua non of the causative category. Cases placed in this category have the following characteristics ... 

Overdosage Description of the signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings of acute overdosage and the general principles of treatment... 

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