The Department of Biochemistry and Immunology

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Department Profile

The Biochemistry and Immunology Department provides a wide range of analytical and advisory services, which are available to inpatients, outpatients and the community at large. As you would expect from a large teaching hospital this service is backed up with training and research programmes designed at improving patient care.

To ensure the highest standard of work we participate in extensive internal and external quality assurance schemes and are accredited by CPA (Clinical Pathology Accreditation) UK Ltd.

Troponin I Investigation Chart

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The department changed to the measurement of Troponin I in place of Troponin T on the 7th of February. From this date a new algorithm is in place for the interpretation of Troponin. This is indicated below. Further work will be done to validate the changes.

Haemoglobin A1c and the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

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Conventionally diabetes mellitus has been diagnosed by high fasting or random blood glucose concentrations, or abnormal oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT). Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) has been used to monitor longer term glycaemic control in patients with known diabetes mellitus.