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August 2023 - Clinical Chemistry - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Chemistry.
High-Resolution Targeted Benzodiazepine Screen - Insights
In this “Hot Topic,” Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., highlights Mayo Clinic’s targeted benzodiazepine assay and discusses the advantages and limitations of various urine-screening assays as well as quantitative confirmatory testing to determine...
Pushing the envelope on personalized medicine - Insights
Recognizing the powerful role genes can play in diagnosing illness and guiding treatment, the Division of Laboratory Genetics and Genomics at Mayo Clinic spearheaded a testing expansion, implementing and upgrading more than 60 advanced...
Epic journey yields unique offering - Insights
The quest to create a test pinpointing the source of the rare, testicular cancer-associated illness successfully concluded in the summer of 2021.
Serologic testing for celiac disease in patients with IgA deficiency - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., discusses serologic testing for Celiac Disease in patients with IgA deficiency.
MML Regional Manager Kate Lynch Bix Retires after 29 Years of Dedicated Service - Insights
Kate Lynch Bix, Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML) Regional Manager, says goodbye after 29 years of dedicated service. When Kate joined MML in 1988, she joined the team of only eight sales staff responsible for covering the entire United...
Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights
Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...
Platelet Transmission Electron Microscopy and Flow Cytometry - Insights
In this "Hot Topic," Dong Chen, M.D., Ph.D., describes how flow cytometry, electron micrographic study, and molecular testing are used to diagnose platelet function disorders.
The Prostate Health Index (PHI) in Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, Ph.D., will provide you with valuable information regarding the utility of the prostate specific antigen test, and how the calculation of a prostate health index, or phi, can help to...
Allan Dietz, Ph.D., Director of the Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory (HCTL) at Mayo Clinic, was recently profiled in Mayo Clinic Magazine, highlighting his background and work in the HCTL.
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Lyme Neuroborreliosis - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will discuss diagnostic testing options for patients with suspected neuroinvasive Lyme disease or Lyme neuroborreliosis.
Cytomegalovirus, or CMV, is a common cause of disease in the transplant population. In some patients who are diagnosed with CMV and are on antiviral treatment for infections, the virus may develop resistance to the drugs. This “Hot Topic”...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Oct. 16 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the role of deficient DNA mismatch repair status in patients with stage III colon cancer treated with FOLFOX adjuvant chemotherapy.
Five steps for successful outreach program implementation - Insights
Learn the five elements essential to successfully implementing a complex outreach program project and what is at risk if you miss an element.
August 2023 - Biochemical Genetics - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Biochemical Genetics.
Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights
Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...
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Genetic Testing for Inherited Cardiovascular Disorders - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Linnea Baudhuin, Ph.D., discusses Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ up-to-date gene panel tests for cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias, connective tissue and vascular fragility disorders, dyslipidemias, and congenital...
Jane Hermansen, MT(ASCP), Discusses Potential Impact of Price Transparency Regulations - Insights
Jane Hermansen, MT(ASCP), was recently featured in 360Dx discussing new federal regulations aimed at hospital price transparency.
Diagnostic Testing Algorithms for Celiac Disease - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Melissa Snyder, Ph.D., co-director of the antibody immunology laboratory at Mayo Clinic, discusses celiac disease and the role of diagnostic testing algorithms.
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© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. 04/2022 Lysosomal Storage Disorders Screen Interpretive Algorithm One of the following: ■ α-Mannosidosis ■ Aspartyglucosaminuria ■ β-Mannosidosis ■ Gaucher...
March 2021 — Cardiovascular Pathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Cardiovascular Pathology.
IgA-mediated autoimmune bullous dermatoses - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., will discuss autoimmune bullous dermatoses, the rare category of blistering skin diseases that are caused by the development of autoantibodies against various constitutive parts of the...
Building the business of lab medicine - Insights
In part three of the 50th Anniversary series, Mayo Clinic Laboratories looks further outside the walls of Mayo Clinic. With the belief that the latest in diagnostic testing should be available to any patient, no matter where they are...
Mayo Clinic’s cardiac (CV) remote monitoring service uses the compact MoMe Kardia cardiac monitoring device that yields a continuous, 24/7 stream of a patient’s ECG and motion data, no matter their location. Any troubling or burgeoning...
Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarkers - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Alicia Algeciras, Ph.D., DABCC, and Joshua Bornhorst, Ph.D., DABCC, discuss Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers.
Behind the scenes in neural antibody testing - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” John Mills, Ph.D., explains the central role of tissue immunofluorescence in the identification of neural antibodies and discusses the benefits of an integrated laboratory approach to the development and...
Dietrich Matern, M.D., Ph.D., Division Chair of Laboratory Genetics in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, has been appointed as a new director on the board of the American College of Medical...
Our suite of preeclampsia, prenatal, breast and gynecological cancer, and other testing has been developed in collaboration with clinical leaders in a variety of women’s health specialties to provide accurate, actionable results.
St. Mary's Magazine highlights Jeremy Zacher's work supporting staff during COVID-19 - Insights
Zacher now works to assist staff who have transitioned to working from home as they learn new technology.
Why Urinalysis Is My Favorite Course - Insights
Nikiesha Myers, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, talks about why Urinalysis has been her favorite course in the program.
Malabsorption panel: Filling a gap in pediatric care - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is committed to innovation that provides the right test at the right time for the right patients. That effort always starts with identifying gaps in patient care. Filling those gaps sometimes involves not developing...
Boone Health: Bringing advanced diagnostic care to underserved rural areas - Insights
Situated in a sprawling geographic region in mid-Missouri, Boone Health expanded its reach to improve access to high-quality holistic care throughout the area, improving the health of community members and increasing net revenue along the...
Custom gene ordering - Insights
With Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ custom gene ordering tool, clients can create specific gene panels to meet their patient’s individual needs.
How the COVID-19 pandemic has increased public knowledge of lab testing - Insights
While the accelerated innovation and increased access to testing that’s occurred because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been critically important to worldwide health care, so too has the crash course in laboratory testing and pathology the...
Pediatric neuro-oncology informative cases - Insights
Neuro-oncology is a complex field undergoing rapid changes with the advancement and evolution of sophisticated genetic testing. Evidence continues to grow in support of broad molecular and cytogenetic analysis for patients with brain...
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© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. Reviewed 06/2025 Newborn Screen Follow-up for Elevated Citrulline Newborn screen result: Elevated citrulline Perform: ■ Plasma ammonia ■ Plasma...
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Selecting Pathology Specimens for Solid Tumors Next-Generation Sequencing - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Sounak Gupta, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., discusses selecting tissues and other tissue considerations for molecular testing. He also reviews tissue metrics and requirements, which differ based on test platforms. It is...
lysosomal-disorders-screen-interpretive.pdf
© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. 12/2024 Lysosomal Disorders Screen Interpretive Algorithm One of the following: ■ α-Mannosidosis ■ Aspartyglucosaminuria ■ β-Mannosidosis ■ Gaucher disease ■...
Applying the Staffing-to-Workload Methodology: Basic Staffing Model - Insights
Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses how to apply the staffing-to-workload methodology to a series of case studies. This post highlights a “basic” staffing model.
Weather Preparedness: Hey, How's That Weather? - Insights
Weather always seems to be at the forefront of people's minds and discussions—especially in Minnesota. We are always commenting on needing more rain, that it’s too cold, or that a blizzard is on its way. Weather, however, is no trivial...
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is one of the few laboratories in the country to offer two special sequencing-based tests for bacteria in its catalog. The first test is designed to help protect patients by investigating potential outbreaks of a...
Eye Injury Prevention Month - Insights
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, it's important to make eye health part of a daily work wellness routine. So what does this mean to those of us working in clinical diagnostic laboratories? For National Eye Injury...
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