Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (814 page)

   Use

   Monitoring exposure to organophosphorus insecticides

   Monitoring patients with liver disease, particularly those undergoing liver transplantation

   Identifying patients who are homozygous for the atypical gene and have low levels of PChE that are not inhibited by dibucaine

   Identifying patients, who are heterozygous for the atypical gene and have lower than normal levels of PChE and varying levels of inhibition with dibucaine

   Interpretation

Increased In

   Type IV hyperlipoproteinemia

   DM

   Hyperthyroidism

   Insecticide exposure (organophosphates)

   Nephritic syndrome

   Psychosis

   Breast cancer

Decreased In

   Genetic PChE variants