Information on New Medical Procedures of the Specialization No . 813 – anAllergology and Immunology Laboratory in the List of Medical Procedures withPoint Scores from 2002

Overview

New medical procedures most of them related to the diagnostics of auto-immune diseases have emerged at theend of the chapter No. 813 called an allergology and immunology laboratory of the List of Medical Procedureswith Point Scores from 2002 (List of Acts No. 101/2002, part 44). The paper provides basic information on newmedical procedures and deals with the impact of new diagnostic procedures to clinical practice and reasons forincluding these procedures to the List of Medical Procedures with Point Scores.

Key words:
antibodies – Helicobacter pylori – mannose binding leptin – auto-antibodies – indirect immuno-florescence– beta-2-glycoprotein – asialoglycoprotein receptor – diabetes mellitus – nephelometry – turbidimetry– phagocytosis