Laboratory medicine and natural disasters: are we ready for the challenge?

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Editorials
2. Laboratory medicine and natural disasters: are we ready for the challenge?
3. Reference values: still a critical issue in laboratory medicine
4. Review
5. Contemporary platelet function testing
6. Minireviews
7. Disasters: where they find us
8. Inter-laboratory variation in cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: united we stand, divided we fall
9. Opinion Paper
10. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c): old dogmas, a new perspective?
11. Guidelines and Recommendations
12. IFCC reference procedures for measurement of the catalytic concentrations of enzymes: corrigendum, notes and useful advice
13. Recommendations for the implementation of international standardization of glycated hemoglobin in Italy
14. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
15. UGT2B17 and SULT1A1 gene copy number variation (CNV) detection by LabChip microfluidic technology
16. Genetic polymorphisms of CYP1A2, CYP3A4, CYP3A5, pregnane/steroid X receptor and constitutive androstane receptor in 207 healthy Spanish volunteers
17. Automated genomic DNA extraction from saliva using the QIAxtractor
18. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
19. A new statistical method for evaluating long-term analytical performance of laboratories applied to an external quality assessment scheme for flow cytometry
20. Evaluation of the Becton-Dickinson rapid serum tube: does it provide a suitable alternative to lithium heparin plasma tubes?
21. Immunoglobulin M antibodies to aquaporin-4 in neuromyelitis optica and related disorders
22. Evaluation of the new body fluid mode on the Sysmex XE-5000 for counting leukocytes and erythrocytes in cerebrospinal fluid and other body fluids
23. Extracellular haemoglobin, oxidative stress and quality of red blood cells relative to perioperative blood salvage
24. Positive predictive value of serological diagnostic measures in celiac disease
25. Retinol potentiates the inhibitory effect of ascorbic acid on uric acid assay
26. Reference Values and Biological Variations
27. Reference intervals for brain natriuretic peptide in healthy newborns and infants measured with an automated immunoassay platform
28. Factors influencing serum total tryptase concentrations in a general adult population
29. Leptin and adiponectin levels in pubertal children: relationship with anthropometric variables and body composition
30. Cardiovascular risk factors and γ-glutamyltransferase fractions in healthy individuals
31. Cancer Diagnostics
32. Combined analysis of survivin autoantibody and carcinoembryonic antigen biomarkers for improved detection of colorectal cancer
33. Oligoclonal bands and immunoglobulin isotype switch during monitoring of patients with multiple myeloma and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation: a 16-year experience
34. Letters to the Editor
35. Methodological weakness in using correlation coefficients for assessing the interchangeability of analyte data between samples collected under different sampling conditions – the example of matrix metalloproteinase 9 determined in serum and plasma samples
36. Intralipid causes falsely increased glucose concentrations with the Hemocue glucose analyzer
37. Serum cholesterol: required and actual bias values
38. Abstracts
39. ISMD2010 Eighth International Symposium on Molecular Diagnostics