Article In The Section blood analysis | May 2024

Keratoconus

Adduction of the hips in the transverse plane to the machine

LDH and Gamma-GT transaminases

Transaminases GGT and LDH: What are they? Why are they measured? Normal Values. Causes of High and Low GGT and LDH. When to worry?

Transaminases

What other tests should be performed to diagnose liver disease? What are aldolase, OCT and alkaline phosphatase? Why are they measured?

CA 19-9 as Tumor Marker

What is Carbohydrate Antigen 19-9 (CA 19.9)? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of CA 19-9 Alto. Read the results: When to worry?

Glycemic Curve - Oral glucose tolerance test

What is the Glycemic Curve? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Altered Glycemic Curve. Interpretation of Results: When to worry?

Creatinine - Clearance and Creatininemia

What is Creatinine? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Low and High Creatinine. Interpretation of Results: When to worry?

Calciuria

What is Calciuria - Calcium in Urine? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Low and High Calciuria. When to worry?

Cystatin C

What is Cystatin C? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Low and High Cystatin C. Interpretation of Results: When to worry?

Blood Gas Analysis: What is it? Procedure and Values

What is blood gas analysis? What does it measure? When is it needed and who is it for? Procedure: How is it done? Risks and Complications. Results: Values and Interpretation

Pulse oximetry: What it is and How to do it

What is Pulse Oximetry? Oxygen in the blood. Normal values. Exam Exam, Possible Errors and Interpretation

Oxygen saturation

What is Oxygen Saturation? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Low and High Oxygen Saturation. Interpretation of Results: When to worry?

RDW: What is it? Why is it measured? What does it mean

RDW (Amplitude of Erythrocyte Distribution): What is it? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Interpretation of Results: Causes of High and Low RDW

BNP and pro-BNP - Blood Tests

BNP and NT-BNP and Sanuge Analysis. Values, Biological Role and Clinical Meaning. BNP values in heart failure and other diseases

CK-MB - Creatine kinase-MB

What is Creatine Kinase MB (CK-MB)? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of CK-MB Low and High. Understanding the Results: When to Worry?

Cardiac Enzymes

What are cardiac enzymes? When and why are they measured? Normal Values. Causes of High Cardiac Enzymes. Interpretation of results.

Calculating HDL Cholesterol

Calculation of HDL cholesterol: why is good cholesterol measured? What is the ideal blood value? What are the causes of too high a value? What are the consequences of high values?

Conversion Cholesterol - Triglycerides mg / dL - mmol / L

Cholesterol conversion: why is cholesterol measured? What are the ideal values? What are the causes of too high or too low values? What are the consequences of high cholesterol values?

LDL / HDL cholesterol ratio

What are the ideal LDL / HDL cholesterol values? What are the causes and consequences of an alteration of the ideal value of the LDL / HDL ratio?

Total cholesterol / HDL ratio

Total cholesterol / HDL ratio: what are the causes? What are the consequences of an alteration in the total cholesterol / HDL ratio. How to raise HDL cholesterol?

Atrial natriuretic peptide, B and C natriuretic peptides

What are the functions of natriuretic peptides? What and how many are natriuretic peptides? Where are? In hypervolemia the natriuretic peptides are more stimulated

C-reactive protein

What is Protein C reactive (PCR)? Why is it measured? Normal Values. Causes of Low and High Reactive Protein C. Interpretation of Results: When to worry?