ELPSR - Overview: Electrolyte Panel, Serum
Identifying a suspected imbalance in electrolytes or acid/base imbalance
PHOS - Overview: Phosphorus (Inorganic), Serum
Diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders including bone, parathyroid, and kidney disease
PETH - Overview: Phosphatidylethanol Confirmation, Blood
Verifying abstinence or use of ethanol, especially in liver transplant candidates/patients
CRMWS - Overview: Collapsin Response-Mediator Protein-5-IgG, Western Blot, Serum
Evaluation of cases of chorea, vision loss, cranial neuropathy and myelopathy
TFNAB - Overview: Thyroglobulin, Tumor Marker, Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Needle Wash
Confirming or excluding metastases in enlarged or ultrasonographically suspicious lymph nodes from athyrotic individuals treated for differentiated thyroid cancer in conjunction with cytologic analysis Confirming or excluding the presence...
PRA - Overview: Renin Activity, Plasma
Investigation of primary aldosteronism (eg, adrenal adenoma/carcinoma and adrenal cortical hyperplasia) and secondary aldosteronism (renovascular disease, salt depletion, potassium loading, cardiac failure with ascites, pregnancy, Bartter...
LASF1 - Overview: Lactic Acid, Spinal Fluid
Aid in differentiating between bacterial and viral meningitis Aid in identifying increased anaerobic glycolysis or hypoxia associated with bacterial meningitis, cerebral infarction, cerebral arteriosclerosis, intracranial hemorrhage,...
Evaluating for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and related demyelinating peripheral neuropathies
TVRNA - Overview: Trichomonas vaginalis, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Varies
Detecting Trichomonas vaginalis in urine, cervical/endocervical or vaginal specimen types
FLDLD - Overview: LDL Cholesterol, Direct
LDL Cholesterol, Direct
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....
Detection of (1→3)-𝝱-D-glucan as a Marker of Invasive Fungal Disease - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will discuss the detection of (1→3)-β-D-glucan (BDG) in serum as a biomarker for the presence of invasive fungal infections....
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....