[The influencing of laboratory diagnosis through drugs].

An extensive literature on influencing laboratory diagnostics by drugs gave rise to uncertainty in interpretation of clinico-chemical results. However, a critical revision of primary literature shows that at this time only a relatively small part of asserted influence is secured and relevant for the therapeutic situation in human being. In interest of the interpretation of the results as well as of the early diagnosis of biochemically conceivable side-effects of drugs and poisonings systemic clinico-pharmacological and clinico-chemical investigations are necessary. For a rough orientation in patients some tables were added in extracts taking as a basis a critical selection of hitherto existing literature on such influences.