Category: Blood

Test Details Synonyms Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate ESR Westergren Sedimentation Rate Use Evaluate the nonspecific activity of infections, inflammatory states, autoimmune disorders, and plasma cell dycrasias.

Test Details Synonyms Prothrombin Time Assay Protime PT Test Includes International normalized ratio (INR); prothrombin time. Use Evaluation of the extrinsic coagulation system; aid in screening for congenital and acquired deficiencies of factors II, V, VII, X, and fibrinogen.6-8 This test

Test Details Use Evaluate nutritional status; investigate edema. In the entities which follow, the diseases listed are sometimes increased or decreased as indicated, but are not always so. Causes of high total protein: dehydration; some cases of chronic liver disease, including chronic active hepatitis

Test Details Use Evaluate electrolyte balance; followed patients on diuretic therapy and with renal diseases, particularly salt-losing nephropathy; evaluate patients being treated for acidosis; prevent cardiac arrhythmias; evaluate alcoholism with delirium tremens; evaluate and treat ketoacidosis

Test Details Synonyms Inorganic Phosphate, Blood Use Causes of high phosphorus: Youth; exercise; dehydration and hypovolemia; high phosphorus content enema; acromegaly; hypoparathyroidism; pseudohypoparathyroidism; bone metastases; hypervitaminosis D; sarcoidosis; milk-alkali syndrome; liver

Test Details Test Includes Cholesterol, LDL:HDL ratio; lipid panel Use Abbreviations used are as follows: HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; VLDL-C, very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Evaluation of hyperlipidemia as an index to coronary

Test Details Use Diagnose pancreatitis, more specific for pancreatitis than is serum amylase; diagnose peritonitis, strangulated or infarcted bowel, pancreatic cyst. Additional Information Serum lipase is usually normal in patients with elevated serum amylase, without pancreatitis, who have peptic

Test Details Use Aid in the evaluation of a number of conditions involving red cell production and destruction, iron metabolism, or iron transport.

Test Details Synonyms Liver Function Panel (LFP) Test Includes Alanine aminotransferase (ALT/SGPT); albumin, serum; alkaline phosphatase, serum; aspartate aminotransferase (AST/SGOT); bilirubin, direct; bilirubin, total; protein, total, serum.

Test Details Synonyms Glycated Hemoglobin Hgb A1c Use Hemoglobin A1c values are used to assess glucose control in diabetes, and in 2010 the American Diabetes Associations affirmed the decision of an international expert committee recommendation to use the A1c test to diagnose diabetes with a

Test Details Synonyms Blood Sugar Use Diagnose diabetes mellitus; evaluate disorders of carbohydrate metabolism including alcoholism; evaluate acidosis and ketoacidosis; evaluate dehydration, coma, hypoglycemia of insulinoma, neuroglycopenia. A fasting glucose ≥125 mg/dL on more than one occasion

Test Details Test Includes Carbon dioxide; chloride; potassium; sodi