Every clinician knows the moment: a patient messages in a panic because their hemoglobin is 11.9 instead of 12.0, or their mean platelet volume (MPV) is 7.4 instead of 7.5. The value is barely outside ...
Run-of-the mill? Middle of the road? Typical? The chance that you are correct is vanishingly small. If you're a clinician, like me, you get a LOT of medical questions. While we've all been asked to ...
When it comes to lab tests, interpreting the clinical importance of an out-of-range result depends on how much experience a physician has, suggests research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
After the first 6 months of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), most very abnormal results newly seen in long-term routine laboratory ...
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Always ask your doctor these 5 questions about your lab results, according to a physician
Dr. Cedrek McFadden, a board-certified colorectal and general surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, recently shared five questions he ...
Answer: D. Her abnormal laboratory values could be the result of small bowel bacterial overgrowth or could be a lack of consistency taking her vitamins. Most patients with small bowel bacterial ...
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