Impact of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and other extracorporeal support techniques on procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients with septic shock

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Cardiac biomarkers – 2019
4. Reviews
5. Current understanding and future directions in the application of TIMP-2 and IGFBP7 in AKI clinical practice
6. Serum cytokines, adipokines and ferritin for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease: a systematic review
7. Opinion Papers
8. Detection capability of quantitative faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin (FIT) and reporting of low faecal haemoglobin concentrations
9. Should phosphatidylethanol be currently analysed using whole blood, dried blood spots or both?
10. IFCC Papers
11. High sensitivity, contemporary and point-of-care cardiac troponin assays: educational aids developed by the IFCC Committee on Clinical Application of Cardiac Bio-Markers
12. Cardiac troponin and natriuretic peptide analytical interferences from hemolysis and biotin: educational aids from the IFCC Committee on Cardiac Biomarkers (IFCC C-CB)
13. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
14. Droplet digital PCR for the simultaneous analysis of minimal residual disease and hematopoietic chimerism after allogeneic cell transplantation
15. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
16. Commutable whole blood reference materials for hemoglobin A_1c validated on multiple clinical analyzers
17. When results matter: reliable creatinine concentrations in hyperbilirubinemia patients
18. Mass spectrometry based analytical quality assessment of serum and plasma specimens with patterns of endo- and exogenous peptides
19. Association of serum sphingomyelin profile with clinical outcomes in patients with lower respiratory tract infections: results of an observational, prospective 6-year follow-up study
20. Effect of an activated charcoal product (DOAC Stop™) intended for extracting DOACs on various other APTT-prolonging anticoagulants
21. Hematology and Coagulation
22. Commutability assessment of reference materials for the enumeration of lymphocyte subsets
23. Circulating platelet-neutrophil aggregates as risk factor for deep venous thrombosis
24. Reference Values and Biological Variations
25. A comparison of complete blood count reference intervals in healthy elderly vs. younger Korean adults: a large population study
26. Indirect determination of hematology reference intervals in adult patients on Beckman Coulter UniCell DxH 800 and Abbott CELL-DYN Sapphire devices
27. Cancer Diagnostics
28. Large platelet size is associated with poor outcome in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer
29. Cardiovascular Diseases
30. Sample matrix and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assays
31. Preoperative proteinuria and clinical outcomes in type B aortic dissection after thoracic endovascular aortic repair
32. Infectious Diseases
33. The rational specimen for the quantitative detection of Epstein-Barr virus DNA load
34. Letters to the Editor
35. Letter to the Editor on article Dimech W, Karakaltsas M, Vincini G. Comparison of four methods of establishing control limits for monitoring quality controls in infectious disease serology testing. Clin Chem Lab Med 2018;56:1970–8
36. Counterpoint to the Letter to the Editor by Badrick and Parvin in regard to Comparison of four methods of establishing control limits for monitoring quality controls in infectious disease serology testing
37. Is creatine kinase an ideal biomarker in rhabdomyolysis? Reply to Lippi et al.: Diagnostic biomarkers of muscle injury and exertional rhabdomyolysis (https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2018-0656)
38. Blood neuron cell-derived microparticles as potential biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease
39. A fast, nondestructive, low-cost method for the determination of hematocrit of dried blood spots using image analysis
40. Association of fibroblast growth factor 21 plasma levels with neonatal sepsis: preliminary results
41. Impact of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and other extracorporeal support techniques on procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients with septic shock
42. Determining the cutoff value of the APTT mixing test for factor VIII inhibitor
43. Determining the cut-off value of the APTT mixing test for factor VIII inhibitor: reply
44. Euthyroid Graves’ disease with spurious hyperthyroidism: a diagnostic challenge
45. A pilot plasma-ctDNA ring trial for the Cobas^® EGFR Mutation Test in clinical diagnostic laboratories
46. MS-based proteomics: a metrological sound and robust alternative for apolipoprotein E phenotyping in a multiplexed test