Added value of indirect immunofluorescence intensity of automated antinuclear antibody testing in a secondary hospital setting

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: the match continues
4. Review
5. Application of fatty acid and lipid measurements in neuropsychiatry
6. Mini Review
7. The Janus faces of acquired angioedema: C1-inhibitor deficiency, lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity
8. Opinion Papers
9. How to report results of prothrombin and activated partial thromboplastin times
10. Useful measures and models for analytical quality management in medical laboratories
11. Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: revolution or evolution?
12. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
13. Rapid detection of Mmalton α₁-antitrypsin deficiency allele by real-time PCR and melting curves in whole blood, serum and dried blood spot samples
14. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
15. Diagnostic and clinical significance of Crohn’s disease-specific pancreatic anti-GP2 and anti-CUZD1 antibodies
16. Immunoassays for the detection of IgA antibodies to tissue transglutaminase: significance of multiples of the upper limit of normal and inter-assay correlations
17. Effects of biobanking conditions on six antibiotic substances in human serum assessed by a novel evaluation protocol
18. Haematology and Coagulation
19. Measurement of dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban in samples of plasma, serum and urine, under real life conditions. An international study
20. Reference Values and Biological Variations
21. Upper reference limits for cerebrospinal fluid total protein and albumin quotient based on a large cohort of control patients: implications for increased clinical specificity
22. Reference intervals for bone turnover markers in Spanish premenopausal women
23. Cancer Diagnostics
24. Citrulline as a biomarker of gastrointestinal toxicity in patients with rectal carcinoma treated with chemoradiation
25. mRNA overexpression of kallikrein-related peptidase 14 (KLK14) is an independent predictor of poor overall survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
26. Cardiovascular Diseases
27. TBX20 loss-of-function mutation associated with familial dilated cardiomyopathy
28. Cardiac troponin I release after a basketball match in elite, amateur and junior players
29. The role of timely measurement of galectin-3, NT-proBNP, cystatin C and hsTnT in predicting prognosis and heart function after heart transplantation
30. Infectious Diseases
31. Neutrophil CD64 combined with PCT, CRP and WBC improves the sensitivity for the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis
32. A comparison of three commercial platforms for urinary NGAL in critically ill adults
33. Diabetes
34. Liquid citrate acidification introduces significant glucose bias and leads to misclassification of patients with diabetes
35. Letter to the Editors
36. A rare and unstable hemoglobin variant, Hb M Dothan β 25/26 (-GTG), detected by the anomalous cytogram on Sysmex XE-2100
37. Hb Hope [β136Gly→Asp] and Hb Grady [α119_120insGluPheThr] compound heterozygosity in a Mauritanian patient
38. Falsely elevated ferritin in patients with a high concentration of rheumatoid factor
39. Susceptibility of commonly used ferritin assays to the classic hook effect
40. Comparison of the Elecsys calcitonin assay with the Immulite 1000 assay. Describing one case with heterophilic antibody interference
41. Performance evaluation of low platelet count and platelet clumps detection on Mindray BC-6800 hematology analyzer
42. Fetal sex discordance between sequencing-based and real-time PCR non-invasive prenatal test due to a vanishing twin
43. Total HIV-1 DNA detection and quantification in peripheral blood by COBAS^®AmpliPrep/COBAS^® TaqMan^® HIV-1 Test, v2.0
44. A replacement for the testosterone “sex gap”
45. Added value of indirect immunofluorescence intensity of automated antinuclear antibody testing in a secondary hospital setting