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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">If you were instructed by your doctor to give a tube of blood, a small cup of urine, or a body tissue sample for testing, then, you are having a diagnostic test. <a href="https://atulaya.com/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Diagnostic test</a> is often part of routine check-up to help doctors diagnose medical conditions, evaluate or plan treatments and monitoring of patient's condition.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">There are three ways on how to do a diagnostic test:</span></span></span></p>
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<li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">a simple physical examination test which is done by using the hand of a skilled practitioner</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">other tests require elaborate equipment used by Medical Technologist or a licensed technician in a diagnostic laboratory</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">tests requiring body fluids or tissue sample to be sent to a <a href="https://atulaya.com/overview/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">pathology lab</a></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b>GUIDES TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND PROCEDURES</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Below are the common <a href="https://atulaya.com/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">diagnostic tests</a> and description of their procedures:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b>ALLERGY TEST</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Allergy Test is a test to determine the substances to which a person is allergic. Maybe done by skin test, elimination diet or blood test.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b>ANGIOGRAPHY</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><a href="https://atulaya.com/services/radiology/ct-angiography/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Angiography</a> is a procedure to detect the extent and severity of blockage in the blood vessels supplying blood to the heart (coronary arteries). A simple catheter is inserted into an artery in the groin or arm, advanced to the opening of the coronary arteries and a contrast material is then subjected to visualize the x-ray images (the images produced are called the angiogram).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">If indicated, angioplasty (inserting of a small balloon catheter into an arteryin the groin or arm, advancing it to the narrowed part and inflating it to enlarge the narrowing in the artery) or stent (a tube inserted in the coronary arteries to keep them open) is usually done as part of the procedure.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b>ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY TEST</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Antinuclear antibody test is a blood test to detect autoimmune diseases (disorders in which the body’s tissues are attacked by its own immune system).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b>BARIUM ENEMA (Lower GI Series)</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is an X-ray of the large intestine (colon) to detect cancer and other problems in the large intestine and rectum. A white liquid (barium) is infused through a catheter inserted in the anus and into the rectum until it fills the large intestines, then an x-ray is taken to see the outline of the intestines.</span></span></span></p>
