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Diagnostics Flashcards

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Why do we do tests?

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  • Confirming the diagnosis
  • Shot in the dark- allows the diagnosis to be narrowed down
  • Assessing stages of severity
  • Medico-legal reasons (paternity test)
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What are the downsides of tests?

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  • Costs
  • Inaccuracies
  • Invasiveness of some tests and anxiety
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Describe a diagnostic pathway

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  • Demographics
  • Symptoms
  • Physical examination
    Simple bedside tests
  • Diagnostic test- surrogate biomarker which substitutes for clinical endpoint
  • Real disease
  • Many diagnoses are made through screening rather than patient presentation
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Describe the ideal test

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  • Identifies every case of disease (100% sensitive)
  • Does not predict anyone from the healthy group as sick (100% specific)
  • Non-invasive
  • Cheap
  • Instant
  • Easy to interpret data- presence of marker being actual marker
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Describe how to develop a test- looking for a biomarker

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  • Comparing an equal number of healthy/diseased individuals
  • If threshold too low, many people could be falsely classified
  • Gold standard vs new test
  • Validation with gold standard- e.g. confirmation through biopsy
  • How often does the test match the biopsy
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What is sensitivity?

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Proportion of true positives that are correctly identified

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What is specificity?

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Proportion of true negatives that are correctly identified

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What is a type 1 error?

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  • False positive
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What is a type 2 error?

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  • False negative
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What is the equation for sensitivity?

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True positive/ (true pos + false neg)

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What is the equation for specificity?

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True negative/ (true neg + false pos)

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What is the positive predictive value?

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Proportion of patients with a positive test who are correctly diagnosed

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What is the negative predictive value?

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Proportion of patients with a negative who are correctly diagnosed

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What is the equation for PPV?

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True pos/ (true pos + false pos)

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What is the equation for NPV?

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True neg/ (true neg + false neg)

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Which description should be used to determine the usefulness of the diagnostic test in a clinical setting and why?

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  • PPV

- Information gathered from population studies rather than case control studies

17
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How is the choice of test determined?

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  • By the physical properties of the biomarker
18
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What are the genetic categories of diagnostic tests?

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  • Cytogenetic

- Sequence dependent

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What are the types of tests in cytogenetic diagnostics?

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  • Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation (FISH)
  • Chromosome Microarray Analysis
  • Amniocentesis/ Chorionic villous sampling
  • These help identify chromosome abnormalities
20
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Describe fluorescence in situ hybridisation

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  • Sequenves specific to each chromosome pair labelled with specific dye colour
  • Chromosomes and DNA heat treated and cooled together
  • Complementary strands hybridised and become fluorescent
  • Chromosomes imaged using fluorescent microscope
  • Able to identify single genes on chromosomes
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What are the types of tests in sequence dependent diagnostics?

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  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Clinical uses of PCR
  • Whole genome sequencing
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Describe the polymerase chain reaction

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  • Amplifies specific desired regions of genome in an exponential manner
  • Requires DNA, primers, oligonucleotides and DNA polymerase
  • Primers complementary base pair to specific area of gene sequence
  • Sequential heating and annealing followed by DNA replication- polymerase
  • Increases amount of material to be sequenced
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What are clinical uses of PCR?

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  • Pathogen detection- viruses, bacteria and fungi- if viruses, some are RNA
  • Oncology- mutations associated with transformation of cell can predict response to anti-tumour drugs (KRAS confers resistance to anti-EGS-R therapy)
  • Mutation analysis, e.g. cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator CTFR (pre-implantation)
  • HLA typing for organ/tissue donors
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Describe whole genome sequencing

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  • Determines the entire DNA sequence in one go
  • Being introduced clinically
  • Personalised medicine- vital for guiding therapeutic intervention)
  • Splicing variation
  • Copy number variation
  • Single nucleotide variation
25
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What are other categories of diagnostics tests?

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  • Immuno-detection

- Biochemical/biophysical tests

26
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What are the immuno-detection types of diagnostic tests?

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  • ELISA

- Immuni-Histo-Chemistry (IHC)

27
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Describe the ELISA test

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  • Enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay
  • Detects antibodies made in response to an antigen
  • Autoantibodies in circulation
  • Biomarkers in body fluids (proteins/chemicals)
  • Dependent upon specific antibodies
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Describe the IHC test

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  • Immuni-HistoChemistry

- Uses antibodies for determining antigen tissue distribution

29
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Describe biochemical tests

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LDH assay measures tissue damage in serum samples using enzymic properties

30
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Describe biophysical assays

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Like pulse oximeters measures blood oxygen sats

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