Interpretation Of Lab Results

A woman has gestational diabetes when she is pregnant and has any two of the following: fasting plasma glucose of more than 105 mg/dl, a 1-hour glucose level of more than 190 mg/dl, a 2-hour glucose level of more than 165 mg/dl, or a 3-hour glucose level of more than 145 mg/dl.   

  Normal Regulation of Blood Glucose The important roles of insulin and glucagon   Normal Response A person is said to have a normal response when the 2-hour glucose level is less than or equal to 110 mg/dl.   

1 - Introduction  2- Several different types of blood glucose tests are used  

Anemia - sickle cell; Hemoglobin SS disease (Hb SS) Support Groups -  Expectations (prognosis)   - Complications -  Calling your health care provider - Prevention . 

Anemia - sickle cell; Hemoglobin SS disease (Hb SS)   Sickle cell disease Definition    - Causes, incidence, and risk factors - Symptoms - Signs and tests - Treatment   .

Anemia - secondary aplastic   ( Acquired aplastic anemia ) Definition    - Causes, incidence, and risk factors - Symptoms - Signs and tests - Treatment   - Expectations (prognosis)   - Complications -  Calling your health care provider - Prevention . 

Macrocytic achylic anemia     ( Congenital pernicious anemia - Juvenile pernicious anemia; Vitamin B12 deficiency (malabsorption) - Complications   Definition   - Causes, incidence, and risk factors - Symptoms -  Signs and tests   -  Treatment - Expectations (prognosis)   - Complications   - Calling your health care provider   -  Prevention    

Definition -  Causes, incidence, and risk factors  -  Symptoms -  Signs and tests -  Treatment   -  Expectations (prognosis) -  Calling your health care provider     . 

            Anemia - immune hemolytic Definition -  Causes, incidence, and risk factors  -  Symptoms -  Signs and tests -  Treatment   -  Expectations (prognosis) -  Calling your health care provider     . 

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia ( Anemia - idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic ) Definition  -  Causes, incidence, and risk factor s -    Symptoms -    Signs and tests -  Treatment -  Expectations (prognosis)    -  Complications

Antibodies Antigens are large molecules (usually proteins) on the surface of cells, viruses, fungi, bacteria, and some non-living substances such as toxins, chemicals, drugs, and foreign particles. The immune system recognizes antigens and produces antibodies that destroy substances containing antigens.

Anemia - idiopathic aplastic Definition  -  Causes, incidence, and risk factor s -    Symptoms -    Signs and tests -  Treatment -  Expectations (prognosis)    -  Complications   -  Bone marrow aspiration . 

G-6-PD deficiency   Hemolytic anemia due to G6PD deficiency ;  Anemia - hemolytic due to G6PD deficiency - Definition  - Drugs that can bring on this reaction -   Symptoms -   Signs and tests -   Treatment   

Hemolytic Anemia Hemolytic Anemia Definition -  Types of hemolytic anemia -  Symptoms     - Signs and tests  - Treatment   . 

Red blood cells, sickle cell Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease in which the red blood cells produce abnormal pigment (hemoglobin). The abnormal hemoglobin causes deformity of the red blood cells into crescent or sickle-shapes, as seen in this photomicrograph.                    Red blood cells, elliptocytosis  Elliptocytosis is a hereditary disorder of the red blood cells (RBCs). In this condition, the RBCs assume an elliptical shape, rather than the typical round shape.