Education

In this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” James Hernandez, M.D., expresses the importance of safety and why it is integral in processing and phlebotomy.

Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share four case studies in this month's PathWays post and are challenging you to test your gastrointestinal, molecular diagnostics, and hematopathology knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.

A 49-year-old male with prior history of severe progressive peripheral neuropathies in his extremities was diagnosed at an outside institution with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Treatments[...]

A 33-year-old man presented with a history of infertility. A blood sample was submitted to the laboratory for molecular analysis of Y chromosome microdeletions. Analysis[...]

A 13-year-old previously healthy female presented to her pediatrician with progressive dizziness, pallor, exercise intolerance, fatigue, and pica. Nine months later, she was diagnosed with[...]

A 32-year-old female presented to OB/GYN at 18 weeks gestation. Mutliple ultrasound anomalies were detected, including postaxial polydactyly, choroid plexus cysts, and omphalocele. Non-invasive prenatal[...]

In this month’s two-part “Hot Topic” series, Joaquin Garcia, M.D., and Tiffany Mainella, HTL(ASCP), review the main components of training clinical laboratory staff and discuss how to ensure your trainers are capable of instructing them.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., presents a case-based scenario on drawing blood from a patient receiving intravenous fluids.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Robin Patel, M.D., will review the laboratory methods used to diagnose infectious endocarditis. Specifically, she’ll discuss the role of blood cultures, nucleic acid amplification tests, histopathology, and recently, broad-range bacterial sequencing, and how these methods can assist in the diagnosis of this disease.

Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share four case studies in this month's PathWays post and are challenging you to test your anatomic pathology and laboratory genetics knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnosis was made. Good luck.

Images below are from a 60-year-old woman with an 8 cm retroperitoneal mass.   Nooshin Karamzadeh Dashti, M.D. Fellow, Surgical Pathology Mayo Clinic Taofic Mounajjed,[...]

A 43-year-old woman presented with a 1.2 cm nodule in the right middle lobe lung. She had a history of triple-negative breast neoplasm diagnosed two[...]

A 68-year-old woman underwent endometrial biopsy for post-menopausal bleeding, which showed endometrial adenocarcinoma, endometrioid type. The screening test for Lynch syndrome by IHC (dMMR-IHC) and[...]