Clinical cases in laboratory medicine

Demographic Information and Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Acetaminophen Poisoning Cases in Rasht, Iran, in 2008

Background: Acetaminophen is widely used as an analgesic and antipyretic drug and it is a frequent cause of acute drug poisoning.This study was carried out to investigate the demographic information and clinical and laboratory findings in acetaminophen poisoning patients referred to “17 Shahrivar” and “Razi” educational hospitals, Rasht. Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1...

Laboratory hemostasis: milestones in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Hemostasis is a delicate, dynamic and intricate system, in which pro- and anti-coagulant forces cooperate for either maintaining blood fluidity under normal conditions, or else will prompt blood clot generation to limit the bleeding when the integrity of blood vessels is jeopardized. Excessive prevalence of anticoagulant forces leads to hemorrhage, whereas excessive activation of procoagulant f...

Recent Advances in Medicine: Clinical Laboratory Therapeutic

Clinical laboratory immunology: an indispensable player in laboratory medicine.

OBJECTIVES Clinical laboratory immunology affects practically every aspect of medicine. Accordingly, appropriately trained, board-certified clinical laboratory immunologists are key contributors to the diagnosis and management of patients with various immune-mediated conditions. This review highlights the availability of postdoctoral level training programs for clinical laboratory immunology an...

Recent Advances in Medicine: Clinical, Laboratory, Therapeutic

The examples of concepts are : (1) Collagen Diseases. Attempts have been made to bring many apparently unconnected diseases under the basic pathology of a morbid state of the connective tissue. All of them have been benefited, permanently or temporarily by cortisone and ACTH. (2) Types of Anaemia. This is the main item under the haemopoietic system which has been reviewed. Davidson's classifica...