Muscle mass loss (symptom description): Muscle mass loss is listed as a type of or related-symptom for symptom Muscle atrophy. Muscle mass loss (symptom description): For a medical symptom description of 'Muscle mass loss', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Muscle atrophy (type of symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Muscle mass loss' may be possible. Broader Symptom Types for Muscle mass loss:
QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus: Results and Interpretation When it comes to result calculation, qualitative cutoff values, and result interpretation, the QFT-Plus is identical to the QFT-Gold assay, with the key exception that if either one or both of the QFT-Plus TB antigen tubes are equal to or greater than 0.35 IU/mL and are at least 25% of the nil tube value, the patient is considered positive.
The QuantiFERON Gold test requires a blood draw. Also, the blood has to be handled in a special way or else the test has to be repeated. Finally, acceptance of this test is not fully mainstream yet which limits its usefulness in all compliance settings (although this will change over time).