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.
What are the tests for TB? The tuberculin skin test (TST), also called Mantoux skin test, shows if a person has been infected. QuantiFERON- TB test is a blood based test for diagnosing latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI). A chest x-ray is given if the Mantoux skin test shows that a person has been infected.