A patient with persistent hyperamylasemia and a low renal clearance of amylase was found to have an abnormally large serum amylase (11S). This large amylase, as shown by preparative ...

Serum, derived from blood, is obtained through centrifugation to separate cellular components. When blood is anticoagulated, plasma containing fibrinogen and clotting factors is produced. In contrast, ...

A MARKED increase in the incidence of systemic infections due to gram-negative enteric bacilli has been observed in hospitalized patients since the advent of antibiotic therapy. 1,2 Many of these ...

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment. Although ...

Serum sickness is an immune response that’s similar to an allergic reaction. It happens when antigens (substances that trigger an immune response) in certain medications and antiserums cause your ...

Elevated Serum Free Light Chains Are Associated With Event-Free and Overall Survival in Two Independent Cohorts of Patients With Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Forty-three percent of patients achieved ...

For the first time in a liver test guideline, authors have defined a normal health serum serum alanine aminotransferase level The American College of Gastroenterology has issued new recommendations on ...

This prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) demonstrated that, compared with a reactive strategy of potassium supplementation ...