Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Transdermal measurement of cardiac troponins: the future is now
4. Reviews
5. Perinatal presepsin assessment: a new sepsis diagnostic tool?
6. Hypertriglyceridemia, a causal risk factor for atherosclerosis, and its laboratory assessment
7. Opinion Paper
8. The novelties of the regulation on health technology assessment, a key achievement for the European union health policies
9. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
10. Performance of four regression frameworks with varying precision profiles in simulated reference material commutability assessment
11. Comparison of six regression-based lot-to-lot verification approaches
12. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) at the preanalytical phase for POCT blood gas analysis: proposal for a shared proactive risk analysis model
13. Evaluation of a pneumatic tube system carrier prototype with fixing mechanism allowing for automated unloading
14. Analytical performance of eight enzymatic assays for ethanol in serum evaluated by data from the Belgian external quality assessment scheme
15. Vitamin D metabolism in living kidney donors before and after organ donation
16. Validation of steroid ratios for random urine by mass spectrometry to detect 5α-reductase deficiency in Vietnamese children
17. Evaluation of serum neurofilament light in the early management of mTBI patients
18. Assessment of urine sample quality by the simultaneous measurement of urinary γ-glutamyltransferase and lactate dehydrogenase enzyme activities: possible application to unravel cheating in drugs of abuse testing
19. Reference Values and Biological Variations
20. Age and sex specific reference intervals of 13 hematological analytes in Chinese children and adolescents aged from 28 days up to 20 years: the PRINCE study
21. Cancer Diagnostics
22. Prostate health index (PHI) as a reliable biomarker for prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
23. A comparison of the faecal haemoglobin concentrations and diagnostic accuracy in patients suspected with colorectal cancer and serious bowel disease as reported on four different faecal immunochemical test systems
24. Circulating cell-free DNA undergoes significant decline in yield after prolonged storage time in both plasma and purified form
25. Cardiovascular Diseases
26. Analytical and clinical performance evaluation of a new high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay
27. Infectious Diseases
28. Results of a SARS-CoV-2 virus genome detection external quality assessment round focusing on sensitivity of assays and pooling of samples
29. Letters to the Editors
30. Improving D-dimer testing appropriateness by controlling periodicity of retesting: prevention is better than cure
31. Biological variation of serum cholinesterase catalytic concentrations
32. Three-month ad interim analysis of total anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in healthy recipient of a single BNT162b2 vaccine booster
33. Fibrin strands in peripheral blood smear: the COVID-19 era
34. Fragments of alpha-1-antitrypsin in patients with severe COVID-19 and bacterial pulmonary sepsis
35. Comparison of thyroid stimulating hormone, free thyroxine, total triiodothyronine, thyroglobulin and peroxidase antibodies measurements by two different platforms
36. Effect of different incubation times on the detection of factor VIII inhibitor in acquired hemophilia A