Clinical Updates

Clinical Updates

Continual focus on test development and updates is central to providing the best testing capabilities for patient diagnosis.

Additional information regarding the updates listed below is available in the Test Directory.

For more information, please contact Client Services.

November 2024: Testosterone Testing Name Changes
2025 Cleveland Clinic Laboratories Soft Tissue Pathology Course – Save the Date!
July 2024: Blood Culture Bottle Shortage
Register Now! 2025 Cleveland Clinic Multispecialty Pathology Symposium
Test Discontinuation: Creatine Kinase-Myocardial Band
New Test: Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Panel, Cerebrospinal Fluid
January 2024: Send-Out Test Delays Caused by Weather
2024 Cleveland Clinic Laboratories Soft Tissue Pathology Course – Registration Now Open
July 2023: Updates to Genital & Sexual Health Specimen Collection
July 2023: Updates to Recommended Myelodysplastic Syndrome Testing
Cleveland Clinic and LabConnect Announce Strategic Alliance
CC-SIGN® Targeted Oncology Panel (TOP) by Next-Generation Sequencing
May 2023: New Test – Clozapine (CLOZA)
May 2023: Changes to Legionella Diagnostic Testing (LEGPCR)
2024 Cleveland Clinic Multispecialty Pathology Symposium – Register Now!
Pathology Insights: Tumors of the Lung with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
September 2022: Best Practice for Detecting Hyperhomocysteinemia – Homocysteine Testing—Not MTHFR Genotyping
Pathology Insights: Update on Small Round Cell Tumors with Scott Kilpatrick, MD
Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Updates
September 2021: New Test – Beta(β)-D-Glucan Assay
September 2021: Ziad Peerwani, MD Appointed as Medical Director of Cleveland Clinic Laboratories
Pathology Insights – Mammary Myofibroblastoma: A Practical Approach with Miglena Komforti, DO
July 2021: Test Menu Optimization & Discontinuations – MGLESE, MYSGRV, PARSYN
Pathology Insights – Diagnosis of Oncocytic Salivary Gland Tumors with Mobeen Rahman, MD
CC-SIGN® Head & Neck Gene Fusion Next-Generation Sequencing Panel
Pathology Insights – NUT Carcinoma with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Diagnosis of CD30+ T-cell Lymphoproliferative Disorders with Genevieve Crane, MD, PhD
Pathology Insights – Two Diagnoses in One Bone Marrow with Megan Nakashima, MD
Pathology Insights – Diagnosing Microinvasive Breast Cancer with Miglena Komforti, DO
Pathology Insights – Diagnosis of Metastatic Renal Cancer with Sean Williamson, MD
Pathology Insights – Pathology of Vaping-Associated Lung Injury with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
CC-SIGN® NTRK Plus Gene Fusion Next-Generation Sequencing Panel
CC-SIGN® Solid Tumor Gene Fusion Next-Generation Sequencing Panel
Pathology Insights – Pleural Fluid: Cyto-Histo Correlation by Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD and Charles Sturgis, MD
Pathology Insights – Lung Granulomas Caused by Fungal Infection with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Lung Cancer or Metastasis to Lung? with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Basics of Thymic Pathology with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Challenging Cutaneous Spindle Cell Tumors with Steven Billings, MD
Pathology Insights – Atypical Epithelial Cells with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia (NSIP) with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Issues With Esophageal Biopsies with John Goldblum, MD
Pathology Insights – Smoking-Related Interstitial Fibrosis with Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
Pathology Insights – Orthopaedic Pathology: Osteoblastic Lesions with Scott Kilpatrick, MD
Pathology Insights – Medical Kidney Pathology with Leal Herlitz, MD
Pathology Insights – Diagnosing Lung Cancer on Small Specimens with Jordan Reynolds, MD
Pathology Insights – Well-Differentiated Lipomatous Tumors with John Goldblum, MD