Nutrition: The Newer Diagnostic Methods

The Newer Nutrition in Pediatric Practice

Newer diagnostic techniques for tuberculosis.

Diagnosis of tuberculosis is mainly based on clinical features, histopathology, demonstration of acid fast bacilli (AFB) and isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the clinical specimens. These techniques have limitations of speed, sensitivity and specificity. During the last two decades several rapid techniques for detection of early growth (5-14 days as compared to 2-8 wk with conventio...

The pancreas: newer radiological methods of investigation.

THE visualization of the pancreas has not, as yet, become a routine procedure. The radiological diagnosis of pancreatic disease still depends, by and large, on indirect signs, whether these are shown on plain films or on barium examinations. The barium meal with special reference to the duodenal loop remains the sheet anchor of the average radiologist. The method and the signs of this examinati...

Diagnostic efficacy of newer synthetic-substrates methods for assessing coagulation variables: a critical overview.

With the introduction of synthetic substrates, many newer methods have been developed for testing coagulation parameters. Some of these methods are used in clinical settings, and many have been evaluated for their diagnostic efficacy in various coagulation disorders. Clinical chemistry laboratory instrumentation has been used to accommodate these methods. Commercially available kits for antithr...

Prenatal diagnostic methods

Prenatal Diagnosis is the most reliable way of preventing genetic diseases that has been implicated in many countries and has prevented the birth of newborns with different hereditary, congenital and genetic diseases during the past few years. Prenatal diagnosis is actually the use of various diagnostic methods to check the condition of the fetus during pregnancy, because postnatal genetic diso...