Sponsored by: Diasorin S.p.A. Streptococcus pyogenes or Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a pathogenic bacteria that causes both invasive and non-invasive infections resulting in mild to severe ...

Confirmatory laboratory testing is only used in one in five cases of suspected tinea capitis (TC), according to a research letter published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Academy of ...

(HealthDay)—Emergency room physicians report that their use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is usually followed by confirmatory testing, according to a study published online May 8 in the Journal ...

A confirmatory test to verify a primary aldosteronism diagnosis had little clinical value, according to the results of an accuracy study. Among 156 adults with a positive screening result for primary ...

For patients who already have a positive result on a screening test for primary aldosteronism (PA), confirmatory testing with the seated saline suppression test (SSST) adds little to the diagnostic ...

It remains unknown which surrogate markers can predict diagnostic test results for primary hyperaldosteronism (PA). The Secondary Hypertension Registry Investigation in Mie Prefecture (SHRIMP) study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A seated saline suppression test had a high false-negative rate for predicting response to primary aldosteronism ...

The seated saline suppression test couldn't discriminate between patients with suspected primary aldosteronism who would and would not respond to treatment. Most patients responded to treatment, and ...