Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (1458 page)

frontotemporal

Huntington disease

with Lewy bodies (DLB)

Parkinson disease

vascular

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)

Denovirus

Dermatomyositis (DM)

Dermatophyte culture

Dexamethasone suppression of pituitary ACTH secretion test (DST)

high-dose test

overnight (8-mg) test

standard two-day (8-mg) test

low-dose test

overnight 1 mg screening test

standard two-day (2-mg) test

Dexamethasone suppression test

Cushing syndrome

gynecomastia

hirsutism

DFA.
See
Direct fluorescent antibody (DFA)

DFNB1.
See
Deafness, autosomal recessive 1 (DFNB1)

DHEAS.
See
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS)

DI.
See
Diabetes insipidus (DI)

Diabetes

cryofibrinogen

protein C

type 1

adrenal insufficiency

autoimmune

and vasculopathies

glucose

hemoglobin A1c

sedimentation rate

Diabetes insipidus (DI)

ADH

amyloidosis-associated kidney disease

causes of

hypopituitarism

medullary cystic kidney disease

plasma ADH

plasma osmolality

polycystic kidney disease

renal amyloidosis

sarcoidosis

serum sodium

sickle cell disease

Sjögren syndrome

syphilis

tuberculosis

urine osmolality

Wegener granulomatosis

Diabetes mellitus (DM)

atherosclerosis

endocrine disorders

acute complications

chronic complications

diagnosis, ADA Criteria

prevalence

risk factors

screening

types and classification

fasting glucose

glucose tolerance

glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)

hemolytic anemias

high-density lipoprotein cholesterol

impaired fasting glucose (IFG)

impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)

plasma glucose

polycystic ovary syndrome

polycythemia vera

respiratory culture, rule out bacterial pathogens

serum triglyceride

two-hour plasma glucose

Diabetic ketoacidosis

blood urea nitrogen

creatinine

glucosuria

hyperglycemia

ketonemia

ketonuria

low bicarbonate

phosphorus

potassium

Diabetic kidney disease

Diabetic nephropathy

albumin

diabetic kidney disease

end-stage renal disease

hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)

microalbuminuria

nephropathy

vascular atherosclerosis

Diabetic polyneuropathy

Diamond–Blackfan anemia (DBA)

erythropoietin

iron

reticulocytes

Diarrhea

acute

exudative diarrhea (inflammatory causes)

motility disturbances

osmotic diarrhea

secretory (abnormal electrolyte transport) diarrhea

antibiotic-associated

bentiromide test

calcitonin level

calprotectin

CBC

chronic
See
(
see
Chronic diarrhea)

Crohn disease

differential diagnosis

D
-xylose testing

endoscopy for

etiology

fasting serum gastrin level

fecal leukocytes

hormonal studies

5-hydroxy indole acetic acid (5-HIAA)

inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

lactoferrin, stool

nutrition indices

O&P examination

P-ANCA

persistent

Cryptosporidium parvum

Cyclospora cayetanensis

Entamoeba histolytica

Giardia lamblia

potassium

radiology

rotavirus detection

routine stool culture

serum immune markers

stool culture

stool for fecal fat

stool test

TSH

ulcerative colitis

Diarrheal syndrome

Dibucaine inhibition.
See
Cholinesterase (Pseudocholinesterase)

DIC.
See
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

DICER1

Dietary effect

Diffuse cutaneous scleroderma (dsSSc)

Diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

Digoxin

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)

Dilute Russell viper venom (dRVVT) assay

acquired thrombophilia

antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

Dilutional effect, pregnancy

Dimorphic fungi

DIPD.
See
Drug-induced pulmonary disease (DIPD)

Diphtheria

core laboratory tests

culture

hematology

nucleic acid amplification

serology

troponin

WBC

Direct antigen detection

common cold

pharyngitis

viral pneumonia

Direct antiglobulin test (DAT)

agglutination

HDFN

Direct bilirubin

Direct Coombs test

hypertension

paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

PNH

Direct fluorescent antibody (DFA)

Disease induced thrombocytopathies

FDP

liver disease

macroglobulinemia

myelodysplastic syndromes

uremia

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

acute liver failure (ALF)

AML

ATIII

cryoprecipitate

D
-dimer

etiologies of

factor XI

factor XIII

factor XIII deficiency

fatty liver of pregnancy, acute

FDP

fibrinogen

hemostatic failure

HIT

Neisseria meningitidis

PE

plasma transfusion

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

platelet aggregation

platelet transfusion

primary myelofibrosis

protein C

protein S

PT

PTT

recommendations

thrombin

thrombin time

thrombocytopenias

thrombophlebitis

Yersinia

Distribution, drug

Diverticulitis

Diverticulosis, colon

occult blood

WBC

DLB.
See
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)

DLBCL.
See
Diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

DM.
See
Dermatomyositis (DM); Diabetes mellitus (DM)

DMD.
See
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)

Döhle bodies

Dopamine.
See
Catecholamines

Down syndrome (trisomy 21)

intellectual disability

macrocytic anemia

DQ2, celiac disease

Drug interference

Drug metabolism

Drug-induced hemolytic anemias

Drug-induced lupus erythematosus

Drug-induced pulmonary disease (DIPD)

CBC with differential

diagnostic findings

RF

Drug-induced thrombocytopenia, immune

Drugs of abuse

dRVVT assay.
See
Dilute Russell viper venom (dRVVT) assay

dsSSc.
See
Diffuse cutaneous scleroderma (dsSSc)

DST.
See
Dexamethasone suppression of pituitary ACTH secretion test (DST)

Δ–storage pool diseases

Dubin–Johnson syndrome