The stability of select biomarkers in frozen plasma over time: an evaluation of a low-volume sample analyzer

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorials
3. “Personalized” sepsis care with the help of specific biomarker levels on admission and during follow up: are we there yet?
4. Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy: a potentially effective and efficient strategy
5. Review
6. The prognostic blood biomarker proadrenomedullin for outcome prediction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a qualitative clinical review
7. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
8. Diagnostic testing for a high-grade inflammation: parameter dynamics and novel markers
9. Serial changes in serum procalcitonin, interleukin 6, and C-reactive protein levels according to non-specific surgical stimulation
10. Utility of procalcitonin, C-reactive protein and white blood cells alone and in combination for the prediction of clinical outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia
11. Presepsin as a potential marker for bacterial infection relapse in critical care patients. A preliminary study
12. Diagnosis and evaluation of severity of sepsis via the use of biomarkers and profiles of 13 cytokines: a multiplex analysis
13. Economic evaluation of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in acute respiratory infections: a US health system perspective
14. Analytical evaluation of Diazyme procalcitonin (PCT) latex-enhanced immunoturbidimetric assay on Beckman Coulter AU5800
15. Calprotectin and lactoferrin in the cerebrospinal fluid; biomarkers utilisable for differential diagnostics of bacterial and aseptic meningitis?
16. Cancer Diagnostics
17. Increased level of circulating U2 small nuclear RNA fragments indicates metastasis in melanoma patients
18. Cardiovascular Diseases
19. Comparison between admission natriuretic peptides, NGAL and sST2 testing for the prediction of worsening renal function in patients with acutely decompensated heart failure
20. Diabetes
21. Weight loss reduces serum monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 concentrations in association with improvements in renal injury in obese men with metabolic syndrome
22. Letters to the Editors
23. Ranking prestige of medical and laboratory technology journals
24. Expression of CD64 on neutrophils (CD64 index): diagnostic accuracy of CD64 index to predict sepsis in critically ill patients
25. Measurement of apolipoprotein M in sepsis-related deaths
26. The stability of select biomarkers in frozen plasma over time: an evaluation of a low-volume sample analyzer
27. Is the new Beckman AccuTnI+3 assay capable of producing false-positive troponin I results?
28. Spectrum of red cell abnormalities in undiagnosed hemolytic anemias and methemoglobinemias: a single center experience
29. Correlation of methadone concentrations in plasma and saliva collected with and without stimulation in pain management patients
30. Higher alkaline phosphatase was associated with the short-term adverse outcomes of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis
31. The use of a rapid fluorogenic neuraminidase assay to differentiate acute Streptococcus pneumoniae-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) from other forms of HUS
32. Congress Abstracts
33. 3rd EFLM-BD European Conference on Preanalytical Phase