In the laboratory, there are several components to bringing up and subsequently maintaining a laboratory test for patient care. Validation: Laboratories are required to perform validation testing on prior samples to ensure that the new test or new method is performing in a clinically meaningful manner. Post Implementation monitoring: In the initial period after a [...]
Welcome back to the Parasite Case of the Week! I post a new case every Monday, along with the answer to the previous week’s case. Here is our new case for this week. The following organisms were found in a patient who presented with abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and a recent travel history to Mexico. [...]
Parasite Case of the Week 13 can be found HERE. Answer: Placental malaria. Plasmodium falciparun would be the most likely suspect. The diagnosis is made by identification of malaria pigment and inclusions within RBCs and macrophages (see image below). Note that some of the RBCs display prominent sickling. Interestingly, the sickled cells and malaria parasites [...]
Cleveland Clinic last week unveiled Clevelandclinichealth.com, the hospital’s health-and-wellness portal and the latest in a string of online creations in the past year. More health-care institutions have tried to turn their medical knowledge outward as they witness the success of…
The Los Angeles Times (7/9, Maugh) reports that the White House has announced that “Dr. Francis S. Collins, the geneticist who discovered the causes of half a dozen diseases, oversaw the government’s efforts to map the human genome and wrote…
Several years ago I wrote up a “Nebulous Corpora Amylacea” I came across in a prostate biopsy. Corpora amylacea are simply laminated luminal secretions that are commonly present in prostatic glands and increase in prevalence with advancing age. They are…
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