Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Sepsis biomarkers: past, present and future
4. Reviews
5. Making new biomarkers a reality: the case of serum human epididymis protein 4
6. Faecal calprotectin in inflammatory bowel diseases: a review focused on meta-analyses and routine usage limitations
7. Opinion Paper
8. Procalcitonin (PCT)-guided antibiotic stewardship: an international experts consensus on optimized clinical use
9. EFLM Paper
10. Practice in financial support of third party organised conferences and courses at a national level for health care professionals in Europe
11. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
12. Design and implementation of quality control plans that integrate moving average and internal quality control: incorporating the best of both worlds
13. Elecsys^® and Kryptor immunoassays for the measurement of sFlt-1 and PlGF to aid preeclampsia diagnosis: are they comparable?
14. Accuracy assessment of consecutive test strip lots for whole blood INR point-of-care instruments: clarifying the role of frozen plasma pools
15. Subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution and telomere length
16. Hematology and Coagulation
17. Automated measurement of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate: method validation and comparison
18. The effect of DOAC-Stop on lupus anticoagulant testing in plasma samples of venous thromboembolism patients receiving direct oral anticoagulants
19. Reference Values and Biological Variations
20. Narrowed reference intervals for complete blood count in a multiethnic population
21. Elucidation of stability profiles of common chemistry analytes in serum stored at six graded temperatures
22. Cancer Diagnostics
23. Prognostic value of involved/uninvolved free light chain ratio determined by Freelite and N Latex FLC assays for identification of high-risk smoldering myeloma patients
24. Cardiovascular Diseases
25. Design of a study to investigate the mechanisms of obstructive sleep apnoea by means of drug-induced sleep endoscopy
26. Infectious Diseases
27. Evaluation of procalcitonin immunoassay concordance near clinical decision points
28. Biomarker-assisted identification of sepsis-related acute liver impairment: a frequent and deadly condition in critically ill patients
29. Letters to the Editor
30. Differences in procalcitonin measurements between three BRAHMS-partnered immunoassays (Liaison, Elecsys and Architect)
31. The short story of the long-term Sigma metric: shift cannot be treated as a linear parameter
32. Analytical and diagnostic performance evaluation of five creatinine POCT devices in the identification of patients at risk for post-contrast acute kidney injury (PCAKI)
33. Lesson from inappropriate TSH-receptor antibody measurement in hypothyroidism: case series and literature review
34. Instrument dependent erroneous sodium measurements in hypoproteinemic critically ill patients are causing significant misclassification of dysnatremias
35. Inherited bisalbuminemia with growth hormone deficiency
36. The first report showing de novo partial 21q monosomy in an adult woman with occult primary ovarian insufficiency (POI)
37. Reverse-hybridization resolves a rare HFE genotype untypable by real-time PCR and melting curve analysis in a patient with hyperferritinemia and alcoholic liver disease
38. Practical problems when incorporating rapidly changing microbial taxonomy into clinical practice
39. Congress Abstracts
40. SGKC/SSCC Annual Assembly 2019 28th-30th August 2019 Technopark, Zurich or Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine