August 2023 - Hematopathology - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Hematopathology.

Clean and dry kidney stones - Insights

To optimize laboratory evaluation of kidney stones, specimens must be both clean and dry. The sensitivity of the analytical method used to determine kidney stone composition requires samples be completely dry, since excess water in the...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 24 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the best tumor size cut-points for renal cell carcinoma staging.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 3 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights advancing diagnostics to address antibacterial resistance.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: November 28 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: Microaggressions between members of a team occur often in medicine, even despite good intentions. Such situations call for difficult conversations that restore inclusivity, diversity, and a healthy work...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 2 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: Sarcomas are a recently identified group of undifferentiated round/spindle cell neoplasms with a predilection for the head and neck region.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: December 5 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: No human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) failure has been documented in the United States using modern cell culture-based vaccines. In January 2021, an 84-year-old male died from rabies 6 months...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: September 19 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: There is a need to develop safe and effective pharmacologic options for the treatment of celiac disease (CeD); however, consensus on the appropriate design and configuration of randomized controlled...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 31 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: It is widely held that heart failure (HF) does not cause exertional hypoxaemia, based upon studies in HF with reduced ejection fraction, but this may not apply to patients with HF and preserved ejection...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 17 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: Given the prevalence of dementia and the development of pathology-specific disease modifying therapies, high-value biomarker strategies to inform medical decision making are critical. In-vivo tau...