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Image: By measuring plasma ceramides as biomarkers, the CERAM test improves identification and assessment of patients at risk of cardiovascular death (Photo courtesy of the Mayo Clinic).

Blood Test Uses Plasma Ceramides as Biomarkers to Assess Risk of Heart Attack

Researchers have found that measuring blood concentrations of plasma ceramides much improves prediction of cardiovascular (CV) death in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute coronary syndromes beyond LDL-cholesterol. More...
16 Aug 2016
Image: Reduced chronic graft-versus-host disease with cord blood, compared with blood from unrelated matched donor, three years after bone marrow transplant (Photo courtesy of the University of Colorado Cancer Center).

Cord Blood Outperforms Matched Donor in Bone Marrow Transplants

A common treatment for blood cancers is to erase a patient's leukemic blood system and then regrow a new blood system using donor blood stem cells. The closer the match between donor cells and a patient's blood system, the less chance the new blood system will attack the patient's tissues which reduces the chance of graft - versus - host disease. More...
08 Aug 2016
Image: Blood being donated for transfusion (Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center).

Medical Center Saves Money by Reducing Blood Wastage

Blood transfusions raise the risk of transfusion reaction, infection, longer hospital stays, and even death, and there is evidence that a restrictive transfusion strategy, as opposed to a liberal one, results in better outcomes for patients. More...
04 Aug 2016
Image: The STA-Compact-Max viscosity-based detection coagulation analyzer (Photo courtesy of Stago).

Automated Hemostasis Tests Affected By Hemolysis, Icterus And Lipemia

Laboratory diagnosis is more and more prominent in modern medicine and it is commonly accepted that approximately 70% of all medical decisions are based on the laboratory results and accurate results are therefore key for appropriate diagnosis. More...
02 Aug 2016
Image: A diagram showing the assessment of embolic stroke risk by measuring blood coagulability (Photo courtesy of the Department of Biofunctional Informatics, TMDU).

Blood Coagulation Detector Helps Monitor Stroke Risk

An analyzer recently developed to measure blood coagulability has the sensitivity to detect hypercoagulability associated with stroke risk in those without atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes an irregular and sometimes fast heart rate, and is a common risk factor for stroke. More...
20 Jul 2016
Image: The automated XN-1000 hematology analyzer (Photo courtesy of Sysmex).

Test Developed to Predict Sepsis in Burns Patients

The diagnosis of sepsis represents a major clinical challenge as many classical diagnostic biomarkers are masked by the ongoing systemic inflammatory response syndrome following major burn injury. More...
13 Jul 2016
Image: A photomicrograph of a blood smear from a patient with acute myeloid leukemia, with very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli (Photo courtesy of the CDC).

Faulty Genetic Instructions Drive Deadly Leukemia in Adults

Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most common acute leukemia or blood cancer types in adults, and involves over-production of immature blood cells that then crowd out normal, healthy cells. More...
06 Jul 2016
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The Hematology channel at LabMedica covers the all aspect of plasma, coagulation, transfusion medicine, and blood banking, as well as related lab tools and techniques.