Glucose and total protein: unacceptable interference on Jaffe creatinine assays in patients

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorials
3. Procalcitonin for diagnosing and monitoring bacterial infections: for or against?
4. Is it time to abandon the Nobel Prize?
5. In Memoriam
6. Norbert Tietz, 13th November 1926–23rd May 2018
7. Reviews
8. Procalcitonin guidance in patients with lower respiratory tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
9. Telomere biology and age-related diseases
10. Opinion Paper
11. Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy: an expert consensus
12. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
13. mRNA expression profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells based on ADRB1 Ser49Gly and Arg389Gly polymorphisms in essential hypertension — a case-control pilot investigation in South Indian population
14. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
15. External quality assessment schemes for glucose measurements in Germany: factors for successful participation, analytical performance and medical impact
16. Long-term stability of glucose: glycolysis inhibitor vs. gel barrier tubes
17. Observational studies on macroprolactin in a routine clinical laboratory
18. Anti-streptavidin IgG antibody interference in anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) IgG antibody assays is a rare but important cause of false-positive anti-CCP results
19. Point-of-care creatinine testing for kidney function measurement prior to contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging: evaluation of the performance of three systems for clinical utility
20. Hematology and Coagulation
21. Analytical performance of an automated volumetric flow cytometer for quantitation of T, B and natural killer lymphocytes
22. Lupus anticoagulant testing using two parallel methods detects additional cases and predicts persistent positivity
23. Reference Values and Biological Variations
24. Within-subject biological variation of activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin time, fibrinogen, factor VIII and von Willebrand factor in pregnant women
25. Within-subject and between-subject biological variation estimates of 21 hematological parameters in 30 healthy subjects
26. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG subclass reference intervals in children, using Optilite^® reagents
27. Cancer Diagnostics
28. Serum carbohydrate sulfotransferase 7 in lung cancer and non-malignant pulmonary inflammations
29. Cardiovascular Diseases
30. Clinical performance of a new point-of-care cardiac troponin I test
31. Diabetes
32. Testing for HbA_1c, in addition to the oral glucose tolerance test, in screening for abnormal glucose regulation helps to reveal patients with early β-cell function impairment
33. Effects of common hemoglobin variants on HbA_1c measurements in China: results for α- and β-globin variants measured by six methods
34. Infectious Diseases
35. Serum procalcitonin concentration within 2 days postoperatively accurately predicts outcome after liver resection
36. Predictive value of serum gelsolin and Gc globulin in sepsis – a pilot study
37. Cerebrospinal fluid free light chains as diagnostic biomarker in neuroborreliosis
38. Letter to the Editor
39. Glucose and total protein: unacceptable interference on Jaffe creatinine assays in patients
40. Interference of glucose and total protein on Jaffe-based creatinine methods: mind the covolume
41. Interference of glucose and total protein on Jaffe based creatinine methods: mind the covolume – reply
42. Measuring procalcitonin to overcome heterophilic-antibody-induced spurious hypercalcitoninemia
43. Paraprotein interference in the diagnosis of hepatitis C infection
44. Timeo apis mellifera and dona ferens: bee sting-induced Kounis syndrome
45. Bacterial contamination of reusable venipuncture tourniquets in tertiary-care hospital
46. Detection of EDTA-induced pseudo-leukopenia using automated hematology analyzer with VCS technology
47. Early adjustment of antimicrobial therapy after PCR/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry-based pathogen detection in critically ill patients with suspected sepsis
48. Thromboelastometry reveals similar hemostatic properties of purified fibrinogen and a mixture of purified cryoprecipitate protein components
49. Bicarbonate interference on cobas 6000 c501 chloride ion-selective electrodes