Calibration 2: Text
1. Hemoglobin.
NORMAL: 12.0-15.2 gm/dL (Female).
PATIENT VALUE: 10 g/dL.
SIGNIFICANCE: The patient’s value is below normal though mat not be clinically significant as only values below 7 g/dL are considered suggestive of an underlying problem (Wallach, 2007).

Proteinuria.
NORMAL: negative-trace.
PATIENT VALUE: 4+.
SIGNIFICANCE: A higher than normal level of protein in the urine indicates renal dysfunction. In this case, it suggests that the glomeruli are damaged and cannot prevent protein from exiting the blood and entering the urine ("Lab tests online," 2009). This finding is not uncommon among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) because antibody-antigen complexes accumulate in the glomeruli leading to inflammation and tissue damage (McCance & Huether, 2006).

VDRL.
NORMAL: -(nonreactive).
PATIENT VALUE: +.
SIGNIFICANCE: VDRL (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) is a test which is designed to detect the presence of......

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Title: Case Study: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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