DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
AIDS – enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) ; Western Blot
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); autopsy (confirmatory test)
ANGINA PECTORIS – electrocardiogram (ECG, ST segment depression)
ANEMIA - hemoglobin
APLASTIC ANNEMIA – complete blood count (CBC)
ARRYTHMIA – holter monitoring (widening QRS complex); stress ECG
ATRIAL FIBRILATION – electrocardiogram (ECG, prolonged PR interval)
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY – prostate specific antigen test (PSAT); serum acid phosphatase
BASAL/SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA & MALIGNANT MELANOMA – skin lesion biopsy
BREAST CANCER – mammography; aspiration biopsy (confirmatory test)
COLON CANCER – biopsy (confirmatory test); stool analysis; sigmoidoscopy; colonoscopy
COLOR BLINDNESS (red, blue, green,white) – ishihara test
COUMADIN THERAPY – prothrombin time (PT)
CYSTIC FIBROSIS – sweat test (chloride in the sweat)
DENGUE – torniquet test; platelet count (more reliable)
DIABETES MELLITUS – fasting blood sugar (FBS); glycosylated hemoglobin (more accurate)
DIGOXIN THERAPY – serum potassium
DIURETIC THERAPY – serum potassium
DUODENAL ULCER – esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER – esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
FILARIASIS – nocturnal blood exam (NEB)-PM; immunochromatographic test (ICT) at AM
GASTRIC CANCER – gastroscopy; EGD; stool analysis
GESTATIONAL DIABETES – benedict’s test
GOUTY ARTHRITIS – serum uric acid
GLAUCOMA – gonioscopy
HEPARIN THERAPY – partial thromboplastin time (PTT)
HISTOPLASMOSIS – histoplasmin skin test (confirmatory)
HIV - elisa
HYPERTHYROIDISM – t3; t4
IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA – platelet count
INTUSSUSCEPTION – barium swallow
LEPROSY – lepromin skin test (confirmatory); biopsy
LEUKEMIA – bone marrow aspiration (confirmatory); white blood cell count
LITHIUM THERAPY – serum sodium
LIVER CIRRHOSIS – alanine aminotransfearase (ALT, first enzyme to increase); aspartate aminotransferase (AST, last enzyme to increase)
MALARIA – blood smear
MONOCHROMASIA (all colors are gray) – ishihara test
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION –
electrocardiogram (ECG, ST segment elevation, pathologic Q wave, T wave inversion);
coronary angiography (site of atheroma formation);
myoglobin (first enzyme to increase); creatinine phosphokinase (CPk-MB);
troponin (most accurate enzyme)
MENINGITIS – lumbar puncture
MYASTHENIA GAVIS - tensilon test
NEPHROTIC SYNDROME - blood urea nitrogen (BUN); creatinine clearance (more reliable)
PANCREATITIS – serum amylase
PERNICIOUS ANEMIA – schilling’s test
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA – vanillyl mandelic acid test
POLIOMYELITIS – pandy’s test
PNEUMONIA – sputum exam (confirmatory); chest x-ray (more exudates in the alveoli); erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR); white blood cell count
PNEUMOTHORAX – chest x-ray (to see the lungs’ normal expansion)
RENAL FAILURE – blood urea nitrogen (BUN); creatinine clearance (more reliable)
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS – erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA – hemoglobin S
STATUS EPILEPTICUS/SEIZURE DISORDERS – electroencephalogram (EEG)
SYPHILIS – veneral disease research laboratory (VDRL); Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody – Absorption Test (confirmatory)
TPN/HYPERALIMENTATION FEEDING – blood glucose (for hyperglycemia)
Tuberculosis – mantoux test (screening test); sputum acid fast bacilli (confirmatory test)
URINARY TRACT INFECTION – urine analysis
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