What could cause a false increase in serum C-reactive protein concentration?

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. The International Consensus on ANA Patterns (ICAP): from conception to implementation
4. Review
5. Machine learning-based clinical decision support using laboratory data
6. Mini Review
7. Standardisation and harmonisation of thyroid-stimulating hormone measurements: historical, current, and future perspectives
8. Opinion Papers
9. Adopting the International Consensus on ANA Patterns (ICAP) classification for reporting: the experience of Italian clinical laboratories
10. Rising adoption of artificial intelligence in scientific publishing: evaluating the role, risks, and ethical implications in paper drafting and review process
11. Biological variation of inflammatory and iron metabolism markers in high-endurance recreational athletes; are these markers useful for athlete monitoring?
12. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
13. A model for managing quality control for a network of clinical chemistry instruments measuring the same analyte
14. Impact of Academia-Government Collaboration on Laboratory Medicine Standardization in South Korea: analysis of eight years creatinine proficiency testing experience
15. Measurement uncertainty estimation of free drug concentrations in clinical laboratories using equilibrium dialysis
16. Use of dried blood spots for monitoring inflammatory and nutritional biomarkers in the elderly
17. S100B vs. “GFAP and UCH-L1” assays in the management of mTBI patients
18. Evaluation of five multisteroid LC‒MS/MS methods used for routine clinical analysis: comparable performance was obtained for nine analytes
19. Ensuring quality in 17OHP mass spectrometry measurement: an international study assessing isomeric steroid interference
20. A novel LC-MS/MS-based assay for the simultaneous quantification of aldosterone-related steroids in human urine
21. Clinical specificity of two assays for immunoglobulin kappa and lambda free light chains
22. Reference Values and Biological Variations
23. Estimation of the reference values and decision limits for growth hormone in newborns using dried blood spots
24. Reference intervals of 24 trace elements in blood, plasma and erythrocytes for the Slovenian adult population
25. Hematology and Coagulation
26. Detection of blasts using flags and cell population data rules on Beckman Coulter DxH 900 hematology analyzer in patients with hematologic diseases
27. Cancer Diagnostics
28. Drainage fluid LDH and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as biomarkers for early detecting anastomotic leakage in patients undergoing colorectal surgery
29. Cardiovascular Diseases
30. Performance evaluation of a novel high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay: analytical and clinical perspectives
31. Diabetes
32. Ferric particle-assisted LDI-MS platform for metabolic fingerprinting of diabetic retinopathy
33. Infectious Diseases
34. Thrombopoietin levels in sepsis and septic shock – a systematic review and meta-analysis
35. Effect of temperature on presepsin pre-analytical stability in biological fluids of preterm and term newborns
36. Letters to the Editor
37. Pseudohyperglycemia due to glucometer interference in galactosemia
38. What could cause a false increase in serum C-reactive protein concentration?
39. Discriminating signal from noise: the biological variation of circulating calprotectin in serum and plasma
40. Diagnostic accuracy of adenosine deaminase for tuberculous pleural effusion: age does matter
41. The role of the Brazilian proficiency testing/External Quality Assessment Program in the improvement of glycated hemoglobin measurement