Laboratory maternal-fetal medicine: challenges and perspectives

Articles in the same Issue

1. Masthead
2. Masthead
3. Editorial
4. Laboratory maternal-fetal medicine: challenges and perspectives
5. Reviews
6. Candidate biochemical markers for screening of pre-eclampsia in early pregnancy
7. Linking preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease later in life
8. Mini Reviews
9. Fetal nucleic acids in maternal blood: the promises
10. Ethical aspects of the expansion of neonatal screening programme due to technological advances
11. Prenatal screening for trisomy 21: recent advances and guidelines
12. Ultrasound markers for the detection of women at risk of developing pre-eclampsia
13. Are biological markers relevant for the diagnosis and the prognosis of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM)?
14. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
15. Study of FTMT and ABCA4 genes in a patient affected by age-related macular degeneration: identification and analysis of new mutations
16. Rapid detection of CFH (p.Y402H) and ARMS2 (p.A69S) polymorphisms in age-related macular degeneration using high-resolution melting analysis
17. Unlabeled-probe high-resolution melting to detect KRAS codon 12 and 13 mutations in pancreatic adenocarcinoma tissues
18. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
19. Volume, rates, source and types of add-on pathology test requests across five hospitals
20. Schizophrenia is associated with increased levels of serum Fas and FasL
21. Comparison between capillary, venous and arterial levels of protein S100B in patients with severe brain pathology
22. Changes of serum adiponectin and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 concentrations after smoking cessation
23. Lack of consistency between two commercial ELISAs and against an in-house ELISA for the detection of CD36 in human plasma
24. Comparison of a commercial urinary neopterin radioimmunoassay with high performance liquid chromatography
25. Evaluation of Prevent ID and Quantum Blue rapid tests for fecal calprotectin
26. Analytical performance evaluation of four cartridge-type blood gas analyzers
27. Cancer Diagnostics
28. Serum free light chains and oligoclonal bands in patients with multiple myeloma and autologous stem cell transplantation
29. Cardiovascular Diseases
30. Homocysteine as a determinant of left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with diabetes
31. Plasma total homocysteine is a determinant of carotid intima-media thickness and circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension
32. Serum MMP-9 and TIMP-1 concentrations and MMP-9 activity during surgery-induced inflammation in humans
33. Effects of endothelin-1 on endothelial progenitor cell function
34. Investigation of cystatin C and cystatin C based estimated glomerular filtration rate in pregnant patients with heart failure
35. Letters to the Editor
36. Comments on a performance evaluation of cartridge-type blood gas analyzers
37. Comments on a performance evaluation of cartridge-type blood gas analyzers. Reply
38. Carryover can be a cause of false-positive results with the Beckman AccuTnI assay
39. Method comparison of a 25-hydroxy vitamin D enzyme immunoassay to liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy
40. Bone marrow plasma cell separation – validation of separation algorithm
41. Sharing our experience in improving postgraduate clinical biochemistry training with laboratory practice articles