Description: HCG is a hormone that is produced during pregnancy, this test measures the level of HCG hormone in blood. In some cases this test may be used to evaluate & manage certain typs of cancer especially those that develop from an egg or sperm.
Description: Evaluate liver & biliary diseases, it is increased in both intrahepatic & extrahepatic lesions. Hepatocellular causes of elevation include hepatitis, cirrhosis and advanced neoplastic states also in Dubin- Johnson Syndrome & Poter Syndrome.
Description: Is high in liver diseases as hepatitis, cholangitis, cirrhosis, primary and secondary neoplasia, alcoholism, biliary obstruction, infectious mononucleosis, Dubin- Johnson syndrome, Gilbert disease, pernicious and hemolytic anemias, neonatal jaundice, erythroblasosis fetalis, following blood transfusion and hematomas.
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.
