What you need to know A 58 year old man presents to his general practitioner (GP) to discuss recent blood test results after ...
Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) s an enzyme found in your body, mostly in your liver and bones. Small amounts of ALP are also in your digestive system, kidneys, and the placenta during pregnancy. Your ...
Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is an enzyme in blood that helps break down proteins. An ALP test measures how much ALP is circulating in the bloodstream. Having high or low ALP levels can indicate an ...
Comprehensive metabolic profile testing (panels) is widely used to screen individuals who present for routine evaluation, as well as those referred for elevated liver enzyme values. The standard ...
Patients with mongolism have been shown to be effectively trisomic for what is assumed to be the same small acrocentric chromosome at the No. 21 position. 6–8 Studies suggest that the same chromosome ...
A 47-year-old black man has had elevated ferritin levels ranging from 500-800 ng/mL for the past two years. Physical examination shows nothing out of the ordinary. His rheumatoid profile is negative.
Few prognostic factors have been identified and successfully replicated for patients with high-risk nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). However, a new report has shown that ...
HealthDay News — Levels of alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin may predict clinical outcomes in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, results of a meta-analysis published in Gastroenterology suggest ...