Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Building a bridge to safe diagnosis in health care. The role of the clinical laboratory
4. Capillary electrophoresis for the screening and diagnosis of inherited hemoglobin disorders. Ready for prime time?
5. Reviews
6. Hyperuricemia as risk factor for coronary heart disease incidence and mortality in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
7. Towards biomarker-based tests that can facilitate decisions about prevention and management of preeclampsia in low-resource settings
8. Mini Review
9. Clinical relevance of sST2 in cardiac diseases
10. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
11. Preservation of urine free catecholamines and their free O-methylated metabolites with citric acid as an alternative to hydrochloric acid for LC-MS/MS-based analyses
12. Performance characteristics of the VIDAS^® 25-OH Vitamin D Total assay – comparison with four immunoassays and two liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods in a multicentric study
13. Differentiation of acute pyelonephritis from other febrile states in children using urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL)
14. Early postoperative C-terminal agrin fragment (CAF) serum levels predict graft loss and proteinuria in renal transplant recipients
15. Homocitrulline: a new marker for differentiating acute from chronic renal failure
16. Hematology and Coagulation
17. Development of hemoglobin typing control materials for laboratory investigation of thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies
18. Comparison of capillary electrophoresis and high performance liquid chromatography for detection and quantification of hemoglobin New York
19. Prevalence of hemostatic alterations in patients with recurrent spontaneous subconjunctival hemorrhage
20. Reference Values and Biological Variations
21. Reference intervals for 24 laboratory parameters determined in 24-hour urine collections
22. First trimester PAPP-A2, PAPP-A and hCGβ in small-for-gestational-age pregnancies
23. Cancer Diagnostics
24. Clinical utility of one versus two faecal immunochemical test samples in the detection of advanced colorectal neoplasia in symptomatic patients
25. Cardiovascular Diseases
26. Time from symptom onset influences high-sensitivity troponin T diagnostic accuracy for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction
27. Prognostic significance of serum albumin level changes in acute ischemic stroke: the role of biological and analytical variation
28. Correlates of serum hepcidin levels and its association with cardiovascular disease in an elderly general population
29. Infectious Diseases
30. Usefulness of several biomarkers in the management of septic patients: C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, presepsin and mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin
31. Diabetes
32. Performance of strip-based glucose meters and cassette-based blood gas analyzer for monitoring glucose levels in a surgical intensive care setting
33. Accuracy and precision assessment of a new blood glucose monitoring system
34. Acknowledgment
35. Acknowledgment
36. Letter to the Editors
37. Glypican-1 as a highly sensitive and specific pancreatic cancer biomarker
38. Platelet microRNAs are not modulated by systemic heparin in acute coronary syndromes
39. Concomitant appearance of two false positive peaks with a true monoclonal one in a patient with plasma cell myeloma
40. Anti-streptavidin interferences in Roche thyroid immunoassays: a case report
41. Evaluation of the new Methotrexate CMIA assay on the Architect i2000SR
42. Liposomal interference on Sysmex XN-series body fluid mode
43. Development of an immunomagnetic beads-based test and its application in influenza surveillance