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lactate dehydrogenase, lactic acid dehydrogenase, blood test that measures the amount, lactate dehydrogenase, ldh, ldh isoenzymes blood is drawn, a vein, a heel, finger, toe, earlobe, laboratory centrifuges the blood to separate the serum, liquid portion, cells, ldh test, on the serum, health care provider, advise to withhold drugs, affect the test, drugs, increase ldh measurements include anesthetics, aspirin, clofibrate, fluorides, mithramycin, narcotics, procainamide, ldh, often measured to evaluate, tissue damage, enzyme ldh is in many body tissues, the heart, liver, kidney, skeletal muscle, brain, blood cells, lungs, ldh catalyzes the interconversion of pyruvate, lactate, exercising muscles convert, red blood cells metabolize, glucose to lactate, lactate is released, blood, eventually taken up by the liver, liver converts lactate back to glucose, releases glucose, blood, glucose is then taken up by resting muscles, red blood cells, tissues, normal values, from laboratory to laboratory, a typical range is 105-333 iu/l, international units per liter, higher-than-normal levels, cerebrovascular accident, cva, stroke, heart attack, hemolytic anemia, hypotension, infectious mononucleosis, intestinal ischemia, blood deficiency, infarction, tissue death, liver disease, hepatitis, muscle injury, muscular dystrophy, neoplastic, new abnormal tissue formation, states, pancreatitis, pulmonary infarction, tissue death, ldh level is elevated, recommend measurement of ldh isoenzymes, additional conditions under which the test performed, anemia of vitamin b-12 deficiency, megaloblastic anemia, pernicious anemia.