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.
So, today I will be talking about the new FDA-cleared QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assay from Qiagen, which, similar to the current QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay, is intended to be used for the indirect detection of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.