Red meat allergy (RMA) is characterized by urticaria, angioedema, gastrointestinal symptoms,
and/or anaphylaxis occurring approximately 3 to 6 hours after ingesting mammalian …

Background Drug screening by immunoassay is common in pediatric populations. However,
false-positive and -negative results due to antibody cross-reactivity and dilute urine are …

Manual treponemal and nontreponemal serologic testing has historically been used for the
diagnosis of syphilis. This approach is simple and reproducible but labor intensive. Recently, …

Our laboratory encountered strikingly dark brown plasma from 2 different patients within a 24-h
period. Patient 1 was a 52-year-old woman. She reported waking up one morning with …

Background. Elderly patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty are at a risk for myocardial
injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS). We evaluated the ability of five common cardiac risk …

The CD91 receptor has been shown to coexpress with CD163 and CD33 in monocyte/macrophage
cells (7).[...] the depletion of monocytes/macrophages by the GO therapy may …

Methods To test this, we employed a cohort of n= 92 RMA patients and n= 188 controls, all
with known ABO types. We compared expected and observed frequencies of blood types O, A…

When I was teaching third year medical students, and benchlecturing clinical laboratory
science students, I emphasized the importance of clinical details and the history of patients in …

The primary motivation for involvement was personal reasons. Participation was largely via
nongovernmental organizations, and volunteers stay in mission for many years. Most of the …

The laboratory obtained a testosterone result of 30117 ng/dL for a 51-year-old man and called
the medical director to assess whether this value was feasible because it would represent …