Interpreting Common Lab Tests for Mitochondrial Disease

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>Dr. Mark Korson from Tufts Floating Hospital for Children gives a "crash course" in interpreting lab values! Most patients with mitochondrial disease have faced a page of test results comprised of letters and numbers that would help them understand their current illness if the information made sense. CBC, CMP, LFTs, CPK, OAA and more...join us as we figure it out!</p> <ul class="list"> <li>CBC</li> <li>CMP</li> <li>Lactic acid</li> <li>pyruvic acid</li> <li>amino acids</li> <li>organic amino acids</li> <li>ammonia</li> <li>electrolytes</li> <li>glucose</li> <li>bicarbonate/co2</li> <li>metabolic labs</li> <li>CPK</li> <li>LFTs</li> <li>carnitine</li> <li>TFTs: TSH, T4, T3</li> <li>cerebral folate</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-about-speaker field-type-text-long field-label-above"> <h5 class="field-label">About The Speaker:</h5> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>Mark Korson graduated from the University of Toronto medical school and completed his pediatric residency nearby at The Hospital for Sick Children.&nbsp; He came to Boston to do a fellowship in genetics and metabolism at Children's Hospital.&nbsp; Following that, he directed the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000, transferring then to Tufts Medical Center's Floating Hospital for Children.&nbsp; He is currently the Director of the Metabolism Service and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine.</p> <p>Besides clinical medicine, a key focus for Dr. Korson is education.&nbsp; He is concerned about the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to treat this community.&nbsp; To complicate this situation, there are too few people entering this subspecialty.&nbsp; In the fall of 2007, Dr. Korson launched the Metabolic Outreach Servic