Description: CRP is a protein created by the liver, increased levels are found in inflammatory conditions including bacterial infections, rheumatic fever, active artheritis, myocardial infarctions, malignancies and in post-operative stat.
Description: It helps to diagnose infections or diseases which cause inflammations. It can also be ordered to monitor treatment by seeing if its level is going down in response to medications or not.
Description: This test is a general cardiac risk assessment, it provides insight into an individual's stroke and heart risk despite normal or avarage cholesterol levels.It is ordered to assess heart attach & peripheral vascular disease as it is increased with inflammatory diseases as inflammatory bowel disease, Lupus or rheumatoid artheritis and post- surgical infections.
Description: Quantitatition of C3 used to detect individuals with inborn deficiency of this factor or those with immunologic disease in whome complement is consumed at an increased rate. These include Lupus erythematosis, chronic active hepatitis, certain chronic infections, post streptoccocal, membrano proliferative glomeriolonephritis & others.
Description: Is used to detect individuals with inborn defficiancy of this factor or those with immunologic disease in whome hypercatabolism of complement causes reduced levels, these diseases include Lupus erythematosis, Serum sickness, certain glomeriolonephrtis & chronic active hepatitis & others.
Description: Used to look for early signs of ovarian cancer in womens with very high risk & to monitor certain cancers during & after treatment. It is increased in normal conditions as menestruation & uterine fibroids, and in abnormal conditions as ovarian, endometrial, peritoneal & fallopian tube cancers.
Description: It is elevated in serum of cancer breast patients, also in lung, colon, pancrese, primary liver, ovary, cervix and endometrium malignancies.
Description: This cancer antigen is overproduced by bile duct cancer cells ( Cholangiocarcinoma), but also with bile duct inflammation and obstructin.
