As fungi are considerably more slow growing than bacteria and are not affected by broad-spectrum antibiotics, too often conventional diagnostics fail to identify fungal bloodstream infection and confirmation is made postmortem.
In this case, conventional diagnostics had failed to find an explanation for the patient's severe symptoms, and doctors needed to understand the underlying cause of the symptoms before they could decide how to treat the child.
The diagnostic workup failed to identify obstructive, infectious, or neoplastic conditions.
We present a case of a patient with severe sepsis in whom the usual diagnostic modalities failed to discover the infectious focus; however, using LUS we discovered that the patient had pneumonia.
In two cases, a new diagnostic angiography failed to reveal any aberrant collateral vessel, and microsphere treatment was therefore contraindicated.
Many clinicians have treated patients with puzzling situations, in which the acute onset of a critical illness suggestive of an infectious origin occurred in otherwise healthy young people for whom diagnostic tests failed to identify an etiologic agent.
Moreover, DECT can provide important diagnostic information when the current routine diagnostic approach has failed to confirm the presence of MSU crystals.
Multiple attempts to quantify the utility of this diagnostic instrument have failed to resolve the matter.
Specifically, regulators found that in developing and testing a new Zika-diagnostic technology, Theranos failed to use proper patient safety protocols, the type approved by an institutional review board.
In spite of this, PCR based diagnostic assays have failed to penetrate the market in developing countries.
