Pathology Tests

Clinical pathology covers many lab functions. It is concerned with disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Clinical pathologists are healthcare providers with special training. They often direct all of the special divisions of the lab. This may include the following:

Blood bank
Clinical chemistry and biology
Toxicology
Hematology
Immunology and serology
Microbiology
Clinical pathology also includes maintenance of information systems, research, and quality control./

People can be affected by many different types of blood conditions and cancers. Common blood disorders include anemia, bleeding disorders such as haemophilia, blood clots, and blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.

Talking to your doctor is the first step in addressing a possible blood condition that you think you might have. If you are diagnosed with a blood disorder, your doctor may refer you to a hematologist.

Hematology is the study of blood in health and disease. It includes recognising abnormalities in red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, blood vessels, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and the proteins involved in bleeding and clotting (hemostasis and thrombosis). A hematologist is a medical doctor who applies this specialized knowledge to treat patients with blood conditions.

Coagulation is a complex process by which the blood forms clots to block and then heal a lesion/wound/cut by stopping the bleeding. It is a crucial part of hemostasis – stopping blood loss from damaged blood vessels. In hemostasis, a damaged blood vessel wall is plugged by a platelet and a fibrin-containing clot to stop the bleeding, so that the damage can be repaired.

Abnormal bleeding can result from disorders of the coagulation system, of platelets, or of blood vessels. Disorders of coagulation can be acquired or hereditary.

Complete blood counts, tests for thalassemia, bone marrow disorders, blood smears for suspected blood cancers and detection of parasites in blood are some of our important offerings in hematology. Under coagulation disorders, we test for important factors like prothrombin time, fibrinogen, lupus related testing among many others.

Clinical Biochemistry uses chemical processes to measure levels of chemical components in body fluids. The most common specimens tested in clinical chemistry are blood and urine. Many different tests exist in clinical chemistry, to evaluate different chemical components in blood or urine. Components may include blood glucose, electrolytes, enzymes, hormones, lipids (fats), other metabolic substances, and proteins.

An immunoassay is a test that relies on biochemistry to measure the presence and/or concentration of an analyte. The analyte can be in the form of large proteins or antibodies that a person has produced as a result of an infection.

Our key offerings in biochemistry and immunoassays include tests like diabetes profiles, lipid profiles (cholesterol related tests), hormonal assays, infectious markers, bone-related markers, markers of liver disease, infertility tests, nutritional deficiency tests and investigations for growth-related disorders.

The department of serology and immunology caters to the testing of huge volumes of samples for seasonal infectious disorders and supports this workload through its complete spectrum of serological markers. Tests for tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, fungal infections, sexually transmitted diseases, respiratory and meningeal infections, dengue, chikungunya, malaria, leptospirosis and typhoid are some of the key areas in our range of infectious diseases.

Allergy testing is also a key offering of this department and has received widespread acceptance among doctors and patients alike.

Tests for critical conditions like autoimmune disorders (wherein the body produces antibodies against its own tissues) are also offered under this department with a special focus on tests to investigate bad obstetric history (recurrent miscarriages etc.)