NMH24 - Overview: N-Methylhistamine, 24 Hour, Urine
Screening for and monitoring of mastocytosis and disorders of systemic mast-cell activation, such as anaphylaxis and other forms of severe systemic allergic reactions using 24-hour urine collection specimens Monitoring therapeutic...
CTB - Overview: Mycobacteria and Nocardia Culture, Varies
Detection and identification of Mycobacterium species, Nocardia species, and other aerobic actinomycetes
NADF - Overview: Newborn Aneuploidy Detection, FISH, Blood
Screening for chromosomal aneuploidies of chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X, and Y in newborn peripheral blood specimens
NAT2Q - Overview: N-Acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) Genotype, Varies
Identifying patients who may be at risk for altered metabolism of drugs that are substrates of arylamine N-acetyltransferase type 2, including isoniazid
TBPZA - Overview: Susceptibility, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex, Pyrazinamide, Varies
Susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates growing in pure culture against pyrazinamide This test is not useful for Mycobacterium bovis and Myocobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) isolates as they are...
NUT1F - Overview: NUTM1 (15q14) Rearrangement, FISH, Tissue
Identifying NUTM1 gene rearrangements in patients with nuclear protein in testis midline carcinoma to aid in confirming or excluding the diagnosis
SAU - Overview: Sialic Acid, Free and Total, Random, Urine
Screening for sialic acid disorders
SER - Overview: Serotonin, Serum
Evaluation of carcinoid syndrome
SP100 - Overview: SP100 Antibody, IgG, Serum
Evaluating the risk of primary biliary cholangitis in anti-mitochondrial antibody (AMA) negative patients by identification of Sp100 antibodies Estimating risk in AMA-positive patients with incomplete feature of disease
PVLE - Overview: Paraneoplastic Vision Loss Evaluation, Serum
Evaluating patients with rapidly progressive vision loss where a paraneoplastic cause for vision loss (retinopathy or optic neuritis with other findings [eg, retinitis] is suspected) Evaluating patients with small-cell carcinoma who...
February 2020 - Laboratory Genetics & Genomics - Insights
A 71 yr old female with a history of a central nervous system lymphoma, an allogenic stem cell transplant and graft versus host disease was tested for...
inflammatory-bowel-disease-diagnostic-testing-algorithm.pdf
YES <50 mcg/g <50 mcg/g Abnormal >50 mcg/g Normal ANCA present ASCA IgG and IgA absent ANCA absent ASCA IgG or IgA present ANCA absent ASCA IgG or IgA absent >120 mcg/g50-120 mcg/g NO Assessing a patient...
Find out how our sarcoma panel assesses gene mutations and fusions described in more than 50 types of soft tissue, bone, and other mesenchymal tumors....
July 2019 — Cardiovascular - Insights
A 50-year-old man who was known to have systemic hypertension developed sudden onset of severe back pain with associated diaphoresis. He lost...
Mayo Clinic’s Neuro-Oncology practice, the Division of Laboratory Genetics and Genomics tests about 50 brain tumors a week, and upwards of 1,500 brain tumors a year from all over the world....