Massive interference in free T4 and free T3 assays misleading clinical judgment

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. The central role of external quality assurance in harmonisation and standardisation for laboratory medicine
4. Review
5. Fecal calprotectin in inflammatory bowel diseases: update and perspectives
6. Mini Review
7. Factor VIIa-antithrombin complex: a possible new biomarker for activated coagulation
8. Opinion Papers
9. Improving quality in the preanalytical phase through innovation, on behalf of the European Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group for Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE)
10. Metabolite profiling can change health-care delivery to obese patients with fatty liver disease: the search for biomarkers
11. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
12. Rapid screening for targeted genetic variants via high-resolution melting curve analysis
13. Evaluation of the new cobas^® HCV genotyping test based on real-time PCRs of three different HCV genome regions
14. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
15. Harmonisation of serum dihydrotestosterone analysis: establishment of an external quality assurance program
16. Spanish Preanalytical Quality Monitoring Program (SEQC), an overview of 12 years’ experience
17. Peer groups splitting in Croatian EQA scheme: a trade-off between homogeneity and sample size number
18. Prevalence of pseudonatremia in a clinical laboratory – role of the water content
19. Retrospective validation of a β-trace protein interpretation algorithm for the diagnosis of cerebrospinal fluid leakage
20. Economic evaluation of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in acute respiratory infections: a Chinese hospital system perspective
21. Performance evaluation of ImmunoCAP^® ISAC 112: a multi-site study
22. Clinical autoantibody detection by microarray
23. Cardiovascular Diseases
24. Kinetics of troponin I in patients with myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery
25. Infectious Diseases
26. P35 and P22 Toxoplasma gondii antigens abbreviate regions to diagnose acquired toxoplasmosis during pregnancy: toward single-sample assays
27. Letters to the Editor
28. Deciphering a macro-troponin I complex; a case report
29. Interference of laboratory disinfection with trichloro-isocyanuric acid on cardiac troponin I measurement using the Vitros immunoassay system
30. Massive interference in free T4 and free T3 assays misleading clinical judgment
31. In defense of aldosterone measurement by immunoassay: a broader perspective
32. The prevalence of hemolysis – a survey using hemolysis index
33. Detection of BRAF^V600K mutant tumor-derived DNA in the pleural effusion from a patient with metastatic melanoma
34. Evaluation of the accuracy of the Greiner Bio-One FC Mix Glucose tube
35. Congress Abstracts
36. 4th EFLM-BD European Conference on Preanalytical Phase Amsterdam (NL), 24–25 March 2017