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MSH6 - Overview: MSH6 Immunostain, Technical Component Only

Identifying patients at high risk for having hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, also known as Lynch syndrome, in an immunopanel including MSH6 and other mismatch repair markers Evaluation of tumor tissue to identify patients at...

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...

NADF - Overview: Newborn Aneuploidy Detection, FISH, Blood

Screening for chromosomal aneuploidies of chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X, and Y in newborn peripheral blood specimens

ARSAW - Overview: Arylsulfatase A, Leukocytes

Preferred enzymatic test for detection of arylsulfatase A deficiency This test is not suitable for carrier detection.

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...

RRPRS - Overview: Rapid Plasma Reagin Screen with Reflex to Titer, Serum

Aid for the diagnosis of infection with Treponema pallidum Rapid plasma reagin testing following a positive treponemal antibody test This test is not useful as a screening or confirmatory test for blood donor specimens.

HIAAR - Overview: 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid, Random, Urine

Biochemical diagnosis and monitoring of intestinal carcinoid syndrome using random urine specimens

CINP - Overview: Cortisol, Mass Spectrometry, Serum

Second-order testing when cortisol measurement by immunoassay (eg, CORT / Cortisol, Serum) gives results that are not consistent with clinical symptoms, or if patients are known to, or suspected of, taking exogenous synthetic steroids...

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Mayo Clinic Ranked No. 1 Hospital Nationwide by U.S. News & World Report - Insights

Report’s 29th annual "Best Hospitals Honor Roll" published online on August 14. Mayo Clinic also ranked No. 1 in more specialties than any other hospital in the country....

NELL-1 [Test in Focus] - Insights

D., discusses how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ new immunohistochemistry test for the detection of NELL-1 antigen, a biomarker for membranous nephropathy found in 10% to 15% of patients, provides diagnostic...

Looking Back on Clinical Chemistry 1 - Insights

in the Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratory Science program, takes a look back on her Clinical Chemistry 1 course....

Orexin-A/Hypocretin-1 for the Diagnosis of Type 1 Narcolepsy [Test in Focus] - Insights

test to perform as well as to interpret. The orexin-A/hypocretin-1 test is a sensitive and specific alternative to the MSLT to diagnose type 1 narcolepsy....

Week in Review: November 1 - Insights

Top highlights include: Facebook launches into the digital space of healthcare, medical breakthrough for Ebola, and how the brain makes memories.