Laboratory medicine: let’s say it is the mirror of science (and medicine)

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorials
3. Laboratory medicine does matter in science (and medicine)… yet many seem to ignore it
4. The standardization of the urine albumin assays: no longer deferrable
5. Reviews
6. The role of telomeres and vitamin D in cellular aging and age-related diseases
7. Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome: from diagnosis to treatment
8. Clinical relevance and contemporary methods for counting blood cells in body fluids suspected of inflammatory disease
9. EFLM Opinion Paper
10. How to assess the quality of your analytical method?
11. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
12. Validation of CFTR intronic variants identified during cystic fibrosis population screening by a minigene splicing assay
13. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
14. Uncertainty in measurement for 43 biochemistry, immunoassay, and hemostasis routine analytes evaluated by a method using only external quality assessment data
15. A study examining the bias of albumin and albumin/creatinine ratio measurements in urine
16. National survey on appropriateness of clinical biochemistry reporting in China
17. Potentiometric measurement of urinary iodine concentration in patients with thyroid diseases with and without previous exposure to non-radioactive iodine
18. Determination of 21-hydroxylase autoantibodies: inter-laboratory concordance in the Euradrenal International Serum Exchange Program
19. Value of a commercial kit for detecting anti-C1q autoantibodies and correlation with immunological and clinical activity of lupus nephritis
20. Comparison of the bead-based simultaneous analysis of specific platelet antibodies assay (SASPA) and Pak Lx Luminex technology with the monoclonal antibody immobilization of platelet antigens assay (MAIPA) to detect platelet alloantibodies
21. Measurement of the inflammatory response in the early postoperative period after hip and knee arthroplasty
22. Whole blood thromboelastometry profiles in women with preeclampsia
23. Increased plasma soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor levels in systemic sclerosis: possible association with microvascular abnormalities and extent of fibrosis
24. Reference Values and Biological Variations
25. Reference ranges of serum bile acids in children and adolescents
26. Infectious Diseases
27. Elevated circulating ghrelin, but not peptide YY(3-36) levels, in term neonates with infection
28. Cardiovascular Diseases
29. Head-to-head comparison of 10 natriuretic peptide assays
30. Prognostic role of BNP in children undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease: analysis of prediction models incorporating standard risk factors
31. Elevations of inflammatory markers PTX3 and sST2 after resuscitation from cardiac arrest are associated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and early death
32. Identification of molecular species of oxidized triglyceride in plasma and its distribution in lipoproteins
33. A new formula for estimation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in an ethnic Chinese population
34. Letter to the Editors
35. Laboratory medicine: let’s say it is the mirror of science (and medicine)
36. The economic burden of hemolysis
37. Acute effects of conventional and extended hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration on high-sensitivity cardiac troponins
38. Cuvette carryover with the gentamicin assay on the Beckman AU480 analyser
39. Comparison study of two commercially available methods for the determination of golimumab and anti-golimumab antibody levels in patients with rheumatic diseases
40. Automated alkaline-pH electrophoresis followed by densitometry does not correlate with cation-exchange (CE)-HPLC in quantification of HbA₂ and variant hemoglobins
41. Progression from light chain myeloma to secondary plasma cell leukemia accompanied by peripheral blood eosinophilia
42. Harmonization of results has not been fully achieved for serum immunoglobulin measurements
43. The risk of macrovascular complications in subjects genotyped for common IL-6 gene and TNF-α gene variants
44. Comparison of nucleated red blood cell count with four commercial hematological analyzers
45. Reply to: The risk of macrovascular complications in subjects genotyped for common IL-6 gene and TNF-α gene variants
46. Congress Abstracts
47. Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
48. 47th National Congress of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC – Laboratory Medicine)
49. 15th EFLM Continuous Postgraduate Course in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine