Haemoglobinopathies in nonendemic areas in recent years

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. The ten commandments of laboratory testing for emergency physicians
4. Review
5. Critical role of RAGE in lung physiology and tumorigenesis: a potential target of therapeutic intervention?
6. Opinion Papers
7. Do we really need high-sensitive troponin immunoassays in the emergency department? Definitely, yes!
8. Do we really need high-sensitivity troponin immunoassays in the emergency department? Maybe not
9. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
10. Cortisol and cortisone ratio in urine: LC-MS/MS method validation and preliminary clinical application
11. Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) excretion increases in normal pregnancy but not in preeclampsia
12. Influence of urine volume on the assessment of intestinal permeability in affected children by multiple sugar probes
13. Measurement of amino terminal propeptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP) employing the ADVIA Centaur platform. Validation, reference interval and comparison to UniQ RIA
14. Cancer Diagnostics
15. Enrichment and enumeration of circulating tumor cells by efficient depletion of leukocyte fractions
16. Immunological screening for tumor cells in serous body fluids has added value with the CELL-DYN Sapphire
17. Cardiovascular Diseases
18. The value of clinical and laboratory diagnostics for chest pain patients at the emergency department
19. The concentration of high-sensitivity troponin I, galectin-3 and NT-proBNP substantially increase after a 60-km ultramarathon
20. Autoantibody prevalence with an improved immunoassay for detecting cardiac troponin-specific autoantibodies
21. Increased B-type natriuretic peptide levels in early-onset versus late-onset preeclampsia
22. Association of the GCKR rs780094 polymorphism with metabolic traits including carotid intima-media thickness in Japanese community-dwelling men, but not in women
23. Infectious Diseases
24. Analysis of antibody response (IgM, IgG, IgG3) to Chikungunya virus using panel of peptides derived from envelope protein for serodiagnosis
25. Letters to the Editor
26. A short story on how the H-index may change the fate of scientists and scientific publishing
27. A new and effective way for preventing pre-analytical laboratory errors
28. Digital immunofluorescence enables automated detection of antinuclear antibody endpoint titers avoiding serial dilution
29. Multicenter method evaluation of the ARK™ Methotrexate Immunoassay
30. Haemoglobinopathies in nonendemic areas in recent years
31. Clinical implications of a recent adjustment to the high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay: some results
32. Effect of recalibration of the hs-TnT assay on diagnostic performance