CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
October 2019—Chlorinated lipids have been shown to be new potential biomarkers for sepsis, and continuing research into their role could lead to faster diagnosis, said David A. Ford, PhD, of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, at this year’s AACC annual meeting. Dr. Ford, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, discovered chlorinated lipids in 2002, and at the AACC meeting he shared recent research on the association between chlorinated lipids and lung injury and death in sepsis patients.
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