Transferrin/log(ferritin) ratio: a self-fulfilling prophecy when iron deficiency is defined by serum ferritin concentration

Articles in the same Issue

1. Masthead
2. Masthead
3. Editorial
4. Progress towards standardization: an IFCC Scientific Division Perspective
5. Review
6. Quantitative Clinical Chemistry Proteomics (qCCP) using mass spectrometry: general characteristics and application
7. Mini Reviews
8. Analytical goals for the determination of HbA₂
9. Glucose meters – fit for clinical purpose
10. Opinion Papers
11. Metrological traceability – a concept for standardization in laboratory medicine
12. Recommendations for clinical laboratory science reports regarding properties, units, and symbols: the NPU format¹⁾
13. “Good samples make good assays” – the problem of sourcing clinical samples for a standardization project
14. Defining acceptable limits for the metrological traceability of specific measurands
15. Original Articles
16. A reference system for urinary albumin: current status
17. Toward standardization of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) measurements: III. Performance of native serum and serum spiked with disialotransferrin proves that harmonization of CDT assays is possible
18. External Quality Assessment Scheme for reference laboratories – review of 8 years’ experience
19. Utility of a panel of sera for the alignment of test results in the worldwide multicenter study on reference values
20. Protocol and standard operating procedures for common use in a worldwide multicenter study on reference values
21. Guidelines and Recommendations
22. 2013 update on the worldwide standardization of the hemoglobin A_1c measurement
23. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
24. Evacuated blood-collection tubes for haematological tests – a quality evaluation prior to their intended use for specimen collection
25. Refrigeration is not necessary for measurement of uric acid in patients treated with rasburicase
26. Procalcitonin and mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin test combination in sepsis diagnosis
27. Cysteinyl leukotrienes in exhaled breath condensate of smoking asthmatics
28. Helicobacter pylori serology in autoimmune diseases – fact or fiction?
29. Serum DNase I activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: correlation with immunoserological markers, the disease activity and organ involvement
30. Antibodies against Nε-homocysteinylated proteins in patients on different methods of renal replacement therapy
31. Reference Values and Biological Variations
32. Reference values for urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in pediatric age measured with a fully automated chemiluminescent platform
33. High biological variation of serum hyaluronic acid and Hepascore, a biochemical marker model for the prediction of liver fibrosis
34. Cardiovascular Diseases
35. Circulating matrix Gla protein: a potential tool to identify minor carotid stenosis with calcification in a risk population
36. Midregional pro-atrial natriuretic peptide in the general population/Insights from the Gutenberg Health Study
37. Letters to the Editor
38. Relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and autoimmune disorders
39. Rapid simultaneous genotyping of polymorphisms in ADH1B and ALDH2 using high resolution melting assay
40. Comparison of biological specimens and DNA collection methods for PCR amplification and microarray analysis
41. Transferrin/log(ferritin) ratio: a self-fulfilling prophecy when iron deficiency is defined by serum ferritin concentration
42. Response to: Transferrin/log(ferritin) ratio: a self-fulfilling prophecy when iron deficiency is defined by serum ferritin concentration
43. Determinants of homocysteine concentrations in mother and neonatal girl pairs
44. Cysteine analog breaks cryoprecipitate associated with chronic hepatitis C
45. Cut-off values of serum growth hormone (GH) in pharmacological stimulation tests (PhT) evaluated in short-statured children using a chemiluminescent immunometric assay (ICMA) calibrated with the International Recombinant Human GH Standard 98/574
46. Normalized MEDx chart as a useful tool for evaluation of analytical quality achievements. A picture is worth a thousand words
47. Harmonization of immunoassays to the all-procedure trimmed mean – proof of concept by use of data from the insulin standardization project
48. Congress Abstracts
49. Annual Assembly of the Swiss Society of Clinical Chemistry & International Congress of Porphyrins and Porphyrias & International Meeting of Porphyria Patients: Personalized Medicine and Rare Diseases