注射器What do the Blood Tests tell us??血液検査をする人

 Blood courses through the body. It delivers oxygen and essential elements to, and removes carbon dioxide and harmful wastes away from the body tissue. If there is any organ dysfunction in the body, that will be reflected in the blood elements. Therefore, the blood examination tells the body’s health condition.

 Blood examination results can be affected by taking food, exercise, stress, alcohol, and pregnancy etc.

血液一般検査 免疫・血清学的検査 生化学的検査
RBC WBC Inflammation Hepatic Viruses Rheumatoid Factor Others Liver Function Renal Function・
Uric Acid
Blood Fat Blood Suge Others
 
    Tests Normal Ranges
(Adults)
Explanation Meaning of Test Results Possible Diseases  
Inflammation

CRP
(C反応性タンパク)

CRP定性検査・・・
陰性(-)

CRP定量検査・・・
0~0.3

mg/dl
CRP is an acute-phase protein on the basis of its increase in plasma concentration during inflammation and tissue injury.

There are two tests for CRP, qualitative and quantities detections.
Used to diagnose tissue injury and acute inflammation, assess how active the inflammation is, monitor disease process, and evaluate the treatment etc.

(-)右矢印Normal
(+)右矢印Acute inflammation.
Rheumatoid arthritis, myocardial infarction, bacterial inflammation, rheumatic fever, viral infectious diseases, and malignant tumor etc.
Hepatitis Viruses
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HBsAg
HBsAb
HBs抗原・抗体
HBsAg・・・
陰性(-)

HBsAb・・・
陰性(-)


The most common causes of hepatitis are excessive alcohol consumption or virus infection such as hepatitis A, B, C viruses etc.

Hepatitis B virus can cause acute hepatitis, go on to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, and even induce liver cancer.

HBsAg and HBsAb are used to detect whether the body is infected by the hepatitis B virus.

Diagnose hepatitis B virus infection.

HBsAg:(+)HBsAb:(+)右矢印 current hepatitis B.

HBsAg:(-)HBsAb:(+)右矢印
had hepatitis B in the past.

HBsAb:(+)HBsAg:(-)右矢印
infected by hepatitis B virus but does not have hepatitis B (Hepatitis B Carrier)

Hepatitis B carrier usually has no symptom but may produce hepatitis B in future. Therefore it is necessary to go to see a specialist once half year.

Acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
  HCV Antibody
HCV抗体
(-)
Hepatitis C virus is spread through blood transfusion. Even there is still something unknown about the virus itself, HCV antibody, which will present in the blood of the infected body, can tell whether the body is infected by HCV or not.

To diagnose hepatitis C virus infection.

(-)右矢印no infection.

(+)右矢印current infected by hepatitis C virus or has been infected in the past.

However, HCV antibodies usually do not appear until many days into an infection but will always be present in one month later of the infection.

Rheumatism
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RA
リウマチ反応
20以下

IU/ml

When bacteria and foreign particles invade the body, the immune system works and the antibodies are produced to fight them off. If there is abnormal in the immune system, antibody will attack the body`s own tissues, known as autoimmune disease. Collagen disease is a typical autoimmune disease.

RA test is used to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by detecting rheumatoid factor in the serum.

To diagnose RA by detecting RF (rheumatoid factor).

RA test results are divided into three stages, negative (-), weak positive (+), and strong positive (++).
(-)右矢印normal.
(+)右矢印abnormal in somewhere of the immune system.

A positive RA result can also be seen in seniors without disease.


Others
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ASO 250単位以下

Hemolytic streptococcus is a kind of pathogenic germs and known to cause severe infections such as tonsillitis, pharyngitis, tympanitis, scarlet fever, and rheumatic fever etc.

ASO is used to demonstrate an antibody produced by the body in response to group A beta-hemolytic streptococci infection.
Hemolytic streptococci break down the red cells by releasing a toxin production, the body will produce ASO antibody to defense the infection.
Therefore, ASO test can help to determine whether the person has a condition related to a serious streptococci infection.

Result of positive or negative of ASO antibody helps to diagnose streptococci infection.
(-)右矢印no infection.
(+)右矢印streptococci infection.

High右矢印pharyngitis, tonsillitis, tympanitis, phlegmona, septicemia, puerperal fever,rheumatic fever after URTI, and acute glomerular nephritis etc.

In children・・・・scarlet fever

 

  Serum(Iron)
血清鉄(Fe)
Male・・・64~187

Female・・・40~162

μg/dl

The total body content of iron is 3?5g. Most of iron is bound to hemoglobin in the red cells, and a few is in liver, bone narrow, and muscle.

Serum iron is the iron that is stored in liver, released to blood, and flows to the bone narrow to make new blood cells.

Iron in foods is absorbed by the small intestine. Abnormal absorption or eating preferences can cause iron deficiency, serum iron lacking, and then Iron deficiency anemia happens.

Serum iron lever tells that how much iron is bound to hemoglobin, whether there are problems related to the blood flow or the bone narrow in which blood cells are made.

 

Immunoglobulin
<IgG・IgM・IgA>
免疫グロブリン

A kind of proteins in the blood and an antibody playing a critical role in immunity.

There are five antibody types known as IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, and IgD.

  • IgG…makes up 80% of all immunoglobulin. It is the only antibody capable of crossing the placenta to give passive immunity to fetus. Therefore, newborns almost have the same IgG lever as their mothers’. It protects newborns from diseases.

  • IgM…he first type of antibody made in response to an infection, which may indicate a current infection. IgM levels tend to decline sooner than IgG levels.

  • IgA…Newborns do not have IgA in their blood because IgA is not able to cross the placenta. IgA is the most abundant type of immunoglobulin in human milk. IgA levers increase gradually and reach a plateau in adolescence.
  •  
    CH50(血清補体価) 30~45

    U/ml

    Complement is a group of proteins in the blood.

     

    As complement can be consumed in some diseases, it is used to monitor diseases and their severity.  
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