Jan 25, 2022 | Chemical Pathology, Knowledge Hub
Primary aldosteronism (PA), also known as Conn’s syndrome, is common and has a significantly higher cardiovascular risk profile than sex-, age-, and BP-matched patients with essential hypertension. PA is now considered a major public health issue, which requires...
Jan 25, 2022 | Chemical Pathology, Knowledge Hub
Gout is a common clinical disease and, furthermore, it is readily treatable and managed by the long-term use of urate lowering medication. Gout, the clinical syndrome, needs to be distinguished from hyperuricaemia which refers to the increased levels of serum urate. ...
Feb 26, 2021 | Chemical Pathology, Knowledge Hub
Immune-mediated diabetes is characterized by the presence of circulating specific antibodies against the pancreatic islets such as glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA), islet antigen-2 autoantibodies (IA-2A), or zinc transporter-8 autoantibodies (ZnT8A)....
Jan 13, 2020 | Chemical Pathology, Obstetric and Neonatal care
Cord blood gas analysis is considered the gold standard for the determination of intrapartum foetal hypoxia. It provides an objective retrospective method for continuous quality improvement in the management of foetal acid-base abnormalities. It is also sensible to...
Jan 7, 2020 | Chemical Pathology, Knowledge Hub
Please take note of the platform change for 24 hour urine cortisol analysis.This test will now be performed on the Abbott Architect immunoassay platform and will result in a change in reference interval to: 24 hr urine cortisol reference interval: 11.8 – 485.6...
Nov 4, 2019 | Autoimmune, Chemical Pathology
The autoimmune liver diseases include the triad of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH), Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). These conditions represent perhaps only 5% of all liver diseases, although the true prevalence in South-Africa is...
