sweat test

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sweat test

n.
A laboratory test that measures the amount of chloride and sodium in a patient's sweat, performed to diagnose cystic fibrosis.
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All the babies were given a sweat test. Twenty (57%) of them had a sweat test result >60 mmol/L that was consistent with CF, eight (22.9%) of them were found to have a suspicious sweat test (30-59 mmol/L), and 5 (14.3%) of them were negative (<30 mmol/L).
For the sweat test, "Robutt" simulates a decade's worth of car use in just three days as it sits, bounces and twists in the seat 7,500 times.
The diagnosis of classic or typical CF is confirmed by a positive sweat test (sweat chloride >60 mmol/L) and/or the identification of two disease-causing CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) mutations on DNA analysis.
Clinical and laboratory findings and diagnoses for the patients were re-evaluated by two different pediatric endocrinologists Among the patients who had primary PHA1, those who had high chloride levels in the sweat test (sweat chloride reference range: 33.9[+ or -]10.2 mEq/L) or high salivary Na level (saliva Na reference range: 33.1[+ or -]13.4 mEq/L) were evaluated as having systemic PHA1 and those who had normal sweat chloride level or normal salivary Na level levels were evaluated as having renal PHA1.
Around this era, the "sweat test" developed by Gibson and Cooke would become the first diagnostic test for CF (2).
The standard diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis is a noninvasive sweat test, which determines whether your child's perspiration is saltier than most people's sweat.
Berlioz-Baudoin et al., "Sweat test practice in pediatric pulmonology after introduction of cystic fibrosis newborn screening," European Journal of Pediatrics, vol.
He had positive sweat test of 150 mmol/l and suffered from respiratory problem, pancreatic sufficiently and meconium ileus.
Because of this, the QSART sweat test is another way of looking for autonomic function (which control sweating).
Sweat test : They will prepare artificial sweat, dip a piece of clean cloth in the artificial sweat and wrap the handset with the cloth.
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