LDH in miscellaneous conditions
Plasma LDH may also be raised in:
- liver disease - poor specifity
- skeletal muscle disease e.g. muscular dystrophies
- haemolysis, both in vitro and in vivo
- leukaemia - to very high levels
- pernicious anaemia - to very high levels
- megaloblastic anaemia - very large elevation
- myeloproliferative disorders
- thalassaemia
- malignancy of all types e.g. raised levels in pleural fluid relative to plasma are a key index of suspicion
- renal infarction
- pulmonary embolus
- congestive cardiac failure
- hypothyroidism
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