Friday, April 22, 2011

DISEASE SPECIFIC DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

  • Schilling's Test - Pernicious Anemia
  • Typhidot - Typhoid Fever
  • Mantoux Test - Tuberculosis
  • Sweat Chloride Test - Cystic Fibrosis
  • Fluid Wave Test - Ascites
  • Schick Test - Diphtheria
  • Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) - Prostate Cancer
  • Antistreptolysin O Titre (ASO Titre) - Rheumatic Fever, Scarlet Fever, Acute Glomerulonephritis
  • Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption (FTA-Abs) - Syphilis
  • NS1 Antigen Test - Dengue Fever
  • Indirect Coombs Test - Rh Incompatibility
    • Incompatible if = Mother is Rh(-) and Baby is Rh (+)
  • Trendelenburg Test - Lower Leg Varicosities
  • Nitrazine Test - breakage of amniotic sac
  • Rheumatoid Factor - Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Lecithin-Sphingomyelin Ratio - Fetal Lung Immaturity
  • Creatinine Phosphokinase MB (CPK-MB) and Troponin I - Myocardial Infarction
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) - Vascular Aneurysms and Stenosis
  • Scotch Tape Method - Pinworms (Enterobius vermicularis)
  • Ortolani's Test and Barlow's Test - Developmental Hip Dysplasia
  • Guthrie Test - Phenylketonuria (PKU)

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