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Cureus ; 16(3): e57243, 2024 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38559530

ABSTRACT

The accuracy of diagnostic results in clinical laboratory testing is paramount for informed healthcare decisions and effective patient care. While the focus has traditionally been on the analytical phase, attention has shifted towards optimizing the preanalytical phase due to its significant contribution to total laboratory errors. This review highlights preanalytical errors, their sources, and control measures to improve the quality of laboratory testing. Blood sample quality is a critical concern, with factors such as hemolysis, lipemia, and icterus leading to erroneous results. Sources of preanalytical errors encompass inappropriate test requests, patient preparation lapses, and errors during sample collection, handling, and transportation. Mitigating these errors includes harmonization efforts, education and training programs, automated methods for sample quality assessment, and quality monitoring. Collaboration between laboratory personnel and healthcare professionals is crucial for implementing and sustaining these measures to enhance the accuracy and reliability of diagnostic results, ultimately improving patient care.

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Cureus ; 15(12): e49835, 2023 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38045630

ABSTRACT

Magnesium (Mg2+) is a predominantly intracellular cation that plays significant roles in various enzymatic, membrane, and structural body functions. As a calcium (Ca2+) antagonist, it is imperative for numerous neuromuscular activities. The imbalance of body Mg2+  concentration leads to clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic to severe life-threatening complications. Therefore, the contribution of Mg2+ measurement regarding various laboratory and clinical aspects cannot be ignored. Mg2+ is often described as the forgotten analyte. However, its close relationship with body potassium (K+), Ca2+, and phosphate homeostasis proves that Mg2+ imbalance could co-exist as the root cause or the consequence of other electrolyte disorders. Meanwhile, several preanalytical, analytical, and postanalytical aspects could influence Mg2+ measurement. This review highlights Mg2+ measurement's laboratory and clinical issues and some analyte disturbances associated with its imbalance. Understanding this basis could aid clinicians and laboratory professionals in Mg2+ result interpretation and patient management.

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Indian J Dermatol ; 68(4): 488, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37822407

ABSTRACT

The study of antimicrobial-resistant Propionibacterium acnes was not conducted regularly, especially in Indonesia. Conversely, regular monitoring of antibiotic efficacy through in vitro testing to assess the evolution of current resistance patterns is obligated; thus, filling the gap caused by a lack of appropriate antibiotic surveillance is required. Analyse the correlation between resistance patterns of P. acnes to doxycycline, clindamycin, erythromycin and azithromycin with the severity of acne vulgaris. This is an analytic observational laboratory study with a cross-sectional design of mild to severe acne vulgaris (AV) patients. Specimens were obtained from comedones of 71 patients, which were cultured and identified using biochemical examination. Antimicrobial resistance (doxycycline, clindamycin, erythromycin and azithromycin) to P. acnes was tested by disc diffusion method. Among 71 samples collected, 40 (56.3%) P. acnes isolates were cultured and identified. The incidence of P. acnes resistance to more than one antimicrobial was 45%. Antimicrobial resistances were clindamycin 42.5%, erythromycin 40%, azithromycin 23.5% and doxycycline 12.5%, respectively. According to the contingency coefficient test, there was moderate correlation between the resistance pattern of P. acnes to clindamycin (r = 0.485, P = <0.001) and doxycycline (r = 0.433, P = 0.002) and AV severity. There was weak correlation between the resistance pattern of P. acnes to erythromycin (r = 0.333; P = 0.025) and azithromycin (r = 0.321; P = 0.032) and AV severity. In conclusion, there is a correlation between the pattern of P. acnes resistance to doxycycline, clindamycin, erythromycin, azithromycin and severity of AV.

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Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove) ; 65(1): 29-32, 2022.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35793506

ABSTRACT

The incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) especially human papillomavirus (HPV) associated type is increasing in trend despite reducing in other head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Muffled voice, dysphagia, neck mass and pain over the throat are among the common presentations; however, health care professional should be aware of unusual presentation to avoid delay in management. We present a case of HPV-positive OPSCC with a rare presentation; progressive worsening of snoring for 6 months duration. Patient sougth medical attention at the some of private clinics for the past 2 months, however, was told to have a normal tonsillar enlargement. Subsequently, patient was referred to our center with impression of obstructive sleep apnea. We highlight the important of early referral to appropriate center and otorhinolaryngology for assessment in cases presented with worsening snoring.


Subject(s)
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms , Papillomavirus Infections , Snoring , Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck , Humans , Oropharyngeal Neoplasms/complications , Oropharyngeal Neoplasms/pathology , Papillomavirus Infections/complications , Papillomavirus Infections/pathology , Snoring/etiology , Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck/complications , Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck/pathology
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Asian Pac J Cancer Prev ; 21(10): 3085-3091, 2020 Oct 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33112571

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: Glioma is the commonest primary malignant brain tumour. Diagnosis is made based on cytology smear, frozen section and histopathological examination. Intraoperative pathological diagnosis using either cytology smear, frozen section or combination of both, plays a crucial role in patient's future management and prognosis. This study aims to determine the accuracy of cytology smear and frozen section in glioma, and to compare the difference between both techniques. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 22 cases of glioma diagnosed intraoperatively from January 2013 until August 2019 in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia. The selected tissues were processed for cytology smear and frozen section. The remaining tissues were proceeded for paraffin section. The diagnosis was categorized as either low-grade or high-grade glioma based on cellularity, nuclear pleomorphism, mitotic count, microvascular proliferation and necrosis. The sensitivity and specificity of frozen section and cytology smears were determined based on paraffin section being as the gold standard. The accuracy of both techniques was compared using statistical analysis. RESULTS: The overall sensitivity and specificity of cytology smear were 100% and 76.9%, respectively. Meanwhile, the sensitivity and specificity of frozen section were 100% and 84.6%. There was no significant difference in diagnostic accuracy between cytology smear and frozen section in glioma (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: Cytology smears provides an alternative method for frozen section due to good cellularity and morphology on smear. Cytology smear is rapid, inexpensive, small amount of tissue requirement and less technical demand. This finding may benefit to the hospital or treatment centres where frozen section facility is unavailable.


Subject(s)
Brain Neoplasms/pathology , Cytodiagnosis/methods , Glioma/pathology , Intraoperative Care , Adolescent , Adult , Brain Neoplasms/epidemiology , Brain Neoplasms/surgery , Child , Child, Preschool , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Frozen Sections , Glioma/epidemiology , Glioma/surgery , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Malaysia/epidemiology , Male , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Prospective Studies , ROC Curve , Retrospective Studies , Young Adult
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Skinmed ; 18(3): 176-178, 2020.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32790616

ABSTRACT

A 33-year-old man, Hamilton-Norwood criteria stage III, and a 34-year-old man, Hamilton-Norwood criteria stage IV, were enrolled in this study and were allocated to two different treatments. The first patient was treated with microneedling and platelet-rich plasma (PRP), while the second patient was treated with microneedling and 5% topical minoxidil. Each patient underwent eight sessions of microneedling treatment, with 2 weeks interval for the first 2 months and 4 weeks interval for the next 4 months. We evaluated the patients at the end of 6th month. Significant improvements were observed earlier on the patient who underwent microneedling and PRP treatment with high overall patient satisfaction. There were no serious side effects observed.


Subject(s)
Alopecia/therapy , Cosmetic Techniques , Minoxidil/administration & dosage , Platelet-Rich Plasma , Administration, Topical , Adult , Combined Modality Therapy , Humans , Male , Patient Satisfaction , Treatment Outcome
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Medeni Med J ; 35(1): 67-70, 2020.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32733752

ABSTRACT

Vallecular lymphoma is an extremely rare tumour of oropharynx. We report a case of 61-year-old gentleman presented with severe dysphagia and globus sensation for two months. Patient underwent endoscopic transoral tumour debulking for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose. Histopathologically, patient was diagnosed as mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). In this case report, atypical presentation of the disease, histopathological features and its current treatments are discussed.

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Asian Pac J Cancer Prev ; 20(2): 321-325, 2019 Feb 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30803189

ABSTRACT

Glioma is the commonest primary intracranial tumour and it has been the most predominant tumour in many studies. It accounts for 24.7% of all primary brain tumour and 74.6% of malignant brain tumour. Intraoperative diagnosis plays a crucial role in determining the patient management. Frozen section has been the established technique in providing rapid and accurate intraoperative diagnosis. However due to some disadvantages like ice crystal artefact, high expenditure and requirement of skilled technician, there is increase usage of cytology smear either replacing or supplementing frozen section technique. The aim of this review is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of cytology smear and frozen section in glioma and to see whether there is significant difference between those techniques. The overall diagnostic accuracy for frozen section in glioma ranging from 78.4% to 95% while for cytology smear, the diagnostic accuracy ranging from 50% to 100%. Based on certain literatures, no statistically difference was observed in diagnostic accuracy of cytology smear and frozen section. Thus, cytology smear provides an alternative method in establishing intraoperative diagnosis. Both cytology smear and frozen section are complimentary to each other. It is recommended to use both techniques to improve the diagnostic accuracy in addition with adequate knowledge, clinical history, neuroimaging and intraoperative findings.


Subject(s)
Brain Neoplasms/diagnosis , Cytodiagnosis/methods , Frozen Sections , Glioma/diagnosis , Humans , Intraoperative Period
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