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BACKGROUND: There have been many reports about the decrease in uric acid concentration in refrigerated urine specimens as compared to fresh urine. In an effort to correct this problem, pre-treatment...
BACKGROUND: Before the introduction of the antinuclear antibody test (ANA), the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell test was a useful diagnostic test for systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE) But, the ANA test has...
BACKGROUND: CK-MB (creatine kinase-MB) is an early marker of acute myocardial infarction and is widely used for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. In this report, we evaluated the OPUS(R)...
BACKGROUND: Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has two subtypes, a typical French-American-British (FAB)-M3 type and an atypical FAB-M3v type described as microgranular variant, and immunophenotyping is a rapid and accurate method...
OBJECTIVE: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, recurrent, systemic inflammatory disease and results in major deformity or dysfunction of joints. A disease activity parameter has important clinical significance because it...
OBJECTIVE: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) is an important marker for the diagnosis and the classification of rheumatic diseases and systemic vasculitis. If the autoantibodies that can be stained in the...
OBJECTIVE: Various rheumatic diseases are often complicated by nephropathy and cases combined with nephropathy show a poorer prognosis. Traditional diagnostic tools for nephropathy are complement activity (CH50) or serum levels...