Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (1481 page)

Sickle cell nephropathy

creatinine

GFR

renal tubular cidosis

Sickle cell persistent high fetal hemoglobin, electrophoresis

Sickle cell screen

HbS

Heinz bodies

hemoglobin variant studies

polycythemia vera

sickle cell trait

Sickle cell trait.
See
Sickle cell disease (SCD)

Sickle cell-HbD disease, Hb electrophoresis

Sickle solubility test (SST)

Signal transduction defects, inherited thrombocytopathies

Sinonasal fluid, CNS trauma

Sjögren syndrome (SjS)

ANA

anticardiolipin antibodies

anti-SSA/Ro antibodies

anti-SSB/La antibodies

complement system, vasculitis

CRP

cryoglobulinemia

cryoglobulins

diabetes insipidus

ESR

lupus anticoagulant

RF

systemic lupus erythematosus

vasculitis

Skeletal dysplasia, hereditary and genetic diseases

achondroplasia

Ellis-van Creveld syndrome

osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)

Skin testing, allergy

SLE.
See
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

Sleeping sickness, blood parasite examination

SMA.
See
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC)

Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).
See
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

Smallpox (variola virus)

Sodium (Na)

in dehydration

diabetes insipidus

electrolyte imbalance

heart failure

hyponatremia

hypopituitarism

limitations

in overhydration

regional enteritis

seizures

urine

urine levels in SIADH

Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB)

Somatocrinin.
See
Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)

SPB.
See
Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB)

Specificity

Specimen validity and drug testing

adulterated sample

methodology

for nonmedical purposes

specimen requirements

substituted sample

urine characteristics

Sperm transport disorders

CFTR gene

FSH

infertility

luteinizing hormone (LH)

semen fructose

testosterone

vasectomy

Spherocytes

AIHAs

HbD disease

Spherocytosis, anemia

Sphingomyelinase deficiency.
See
Niemann-Pick disease, types A and B

Spinal cord infarction

cell count

CMV

coxsackie

and culture

EBV

glucose

gram stain and culture

Herpes

Lyme

MS

protein

varicella

Spinal cord tumors

CSF evaluation

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Spinocerebellar ataxias

Spiral bacteria

Splenomegaly

bone marrow analysis

brucellosis

β-thalassemia major

endocarditis

Felty syndrome

hairy cell leukemia

hereditary spherocytosis

inherited thrombocytopathies

mononucleosis

sarcoidosis

tuberculosis

Spondyloarthropathies, HLA-B27

Sporotrichosis

Sprinz-Nelson disease

Sprue, monocytosis

Sputum culture (routine)

Bordetella pertussis

bronchiolitis

Mycoplasma

pneumonia

tracheobronchitis

Squamous cell carcinoma

cervix

Squamous intraepithelial lesion, cervical carcinoma

SS.
See
Sezary syndrome (SS)

SSc.
See
Systemic sclerosis (SSc)

SST.
See
Sickle solubility test (SST)

STEMI.
See
ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

diagnosis

ECG

Stable angina pectoris

Staphylococcus aureus

acute liver failure (ALF)

cystic fibrosis

endocarditis

gastroenteritis

genital culture

pneumonia

respiratory culture, rule out bacterial pathogens

vaginitis

viral pneumonia

Staphylococcus pyogenes

pharyngitis

routine throat culture

Staphylococcus saprophyticus
, UTI

Steatorrhea

STEC culture

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Sterile pyuria, UTI

Steroids, TDM

Stomach carcinoma

achlorhydria

alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)

anemia

CA 19-9

carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)

occult blood

Stomach disorders

carcinoma

gastritis, chronic

atrophic

causes

nonatrophic

Stomatocytes, hereditary stomatocytosis

Stool culture

bacterial pathogens, GI symptoms

Clostridium difficile

diarrhea

ova and parasite examination

routine culture

Stool fat, malabsorption

Stool for fecal fat, diarrhea

Stool O&P test

amebiasis

giardiasis

Storage pool disease, platelet aggregation

Strawberry tongue, pharyngitis

Streptococcal infections,
Streptococcus pneumoniae

Streptococcus agalactiae
, UTI

Streptococcus
, direct detection tests

Streptococcus group A (GAS), direct detection

Streptococcus pneumoniae

acute rhinosinusitis

bacterial antigen detection

croup

pneumonia

respiratory culture, rule out bacterial pathogens

urine antigen test

viral pneumonia

Streptococcus pyogenes

anti-DNase-B (ADB)

antistreptococcal antibodies

antistreptolysin O (ASO)

pharyngitis

rheumatic fever

streptozyme

varicella-zoster virus

Streptozyme

Streptococcus pyogenes

Stress-induced (Takostubo) cardiomyopathy

diagnosis

myocarditis

symptoms

Stroke

anticardiolipin antibodies (ACAs)

CBC

ESR

factor V Leiden

fibrinogen level

HIV

lupus anticoagulant (LA)

Lyme disease, serology for

protein C

protein S

PT

PTT

SIADH

thrombin time

Strongyloidiasis
(Strongyloides stercoralis)

Subacute thyroiditis.
See
Thyroiditis, subacute

Subclinical (mild) hyperthyroidism

Subdural hematoma

Substituted sample

Sudan Black B.
See
Myeloperoxidase (MPO)

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)

ECG

laboratory and diagnostic testing

troponin

Sydenham chorea

Syncope

BNP

evaluation

glucose

hyperlipidemia

hypertension

laboratory and diagnostic testing

occult blood

sudden cardiac arrest

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH)

ADH

aspergillosis

blood urea nitrogen (BUN)

carcinoma, of lung

causes of

creatinine

empyema

hemorrhage

HIV infection

hyponatremia

infection

osmolality