Esoteric Testing Guides
The Department of Laboratory Medicine offers several guides and websites that detail specific specialty areas of testing services. These materials provide a host of educational materials including the testing methods we use and the clinical utility of the tests.
What's New in Testing
Below are concise summaries on changes to important esoteric tests:
- Annual Compliance Letter - 2006 [32k pdf*]
- Alpha & Beta Hemoglobin DNA Screens - 9/05 [100k pdf*]
- BCR/ABL, Quant. - 7/05 [126k pdf*]
- CellSearch™ Circulating Tumor Cell Assay - 9/06
- Endocrine Assay Changes (Renin, Aldosterone and PTH) - 11/04 [102k pdf*]
- Fondaparinux Assay - 3/06 [56k word doc]
- FLT3 ITD / NPM1 Insertion Mutation DNA Screen - 11/07 [133k pdf] NEW
- Hereditary Hearing Loss - 8/05 [99k pdf*]
- Hereditary Hearing Loss, Expansion Testing - 9/05 [110k pdf*]
- Hepatitis C Genotyping - 10/04 [108k pdf*]
- JAK2 V617F DNA Mutation - 10/05 [104k pdf*]
- Maternal Cell Contamination - 03/06 [118k pdf*]
- Tacrolimus - New measurement interpretation - 09/05 [98k pdf*]
- Venous Thrombosis Workup, Comprehensive - 05/06 [129k pdf*]
Test Guides
- Genetics Diagnostic Testing (online)
- Hematopathology [652 pdf*]
- Hemostasis & Thrombosis Diagnositc Tests [498k pdf*]
- Molecular Diagnosis in Microbiology (online)
- Virology Diagnostic Testing (online)
- Virology Diagnostic Testing [743k pdf*]
Guides available by submitting an email request:
- Diagnostic Immunology [Email request to jrit@u.washington.edu]
- Diagnostic Tests for Intrinsic Hemolytic Disorders and Thalassemia [Email request to jrit@u.washington.edu]
Last updated: 1/30/2008