LabQ Clinical Exercise 1: Clinical Chemistry: An Unusual Cause of Syncope

Author

Christopher W. Farnsworth, PhD 

Department of Pathology & Immunology 

Washington University in St. Louis 

St. Louis, Missouri 

Primary Audience: Phlebotomists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory Directors

Secondary Audience: Pathologists, Clinical Scientists (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Residents, and Students

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• discuss the common causes of syncope; 

• apply the criteria for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction; 

• interpret free light chain results in the context of normal protein electrophoresis and immunofixation results; and 

• describe the utility of cardiac biomarkers in amyloidosis.