Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Laboratory Medicine: from just testing to saving lives
4. Reviews
5. Serum biomarkers of remodeling in severe asthma with fixed airway obstruction and the potential role of KL-6
6. Safety monitoring of drug-induced muscle injury and rhabdomyolysis: a biomarker-guided approach for clinical practice and drug trials
7. Mini Review
8. Concise review on the combined use of immunocapture, mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography for clinical applications
9. Opinion Paper
10. Recommendation for the design of stability studies on clinical specimens
11. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
12. Assessment of WHO 07/202 reference material and human serum pools for commutability and for the potential to reduce variability among soluble transferrin receptor assays
13. veRification: an R Shiny application for laboratory method verification and validation
14. Impact of storage temperature and time before analysis on electrolytes (Na⁺, K⁺, Ca²⁺), lactate, glucose, blood gases (pH, pO₂, pCO₂), tHb, O₂Hb, COHb and MetHb results
15. The stability of blood gases and CO-oximetry under slushed ice and room temperature conditions
16. Elevated levels of renal function tests conferred increased risks of developing various pregnancy complications and adverse perinatal outcomes: insights from a population-based cohort study
17. Poor comparability of plasma renin activity measurement in determining patient samples: the status quo and recommendations for harmonization
18. Salivary cortisol and cortisone in diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome – a comparison of six different analytical methods
19. Improved diagnostics of purine and pyrimidine metabolism disorders using LC-MS/MS and its clinical application
20. Analytical evaluation of a GAD65 antibodies chemiluminescence immunoassay for CSF in neurological syndromes
21. Reference Values and Biological Variations
22. Evaluation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol equations by cross-platform assessment of accuracy-based EQA data against SI-traceable reference value
23. Highly sensitive tandem mass spectrometric measurement of serum estradiol without derivatization and pediatric reference intervals in children and adolescents
24. Cancer Diagnostics
25. Practical delta check limits for tumour markers in different clinical settings
26. Comparison between free β subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and total hCG assays in adults with testicular cancer
27. Hematology and Coagulation
28. Value of monocyte distribution width for predicting severe cholecystitis: a retrospective cohort study
29. Performance of digital morphology analyzer Medica EasyCell assistant
30. Validation of non-invasive point of care blood content analysis using the TensorTip™ MTX device: a method comparison study
31. Infectious Diseases
32. Kinetics and ability of binding antibody and surrogate virus neutralization tests to predict neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant following BNT162b2 booster administration
33. Letters to the Editor
34. The first case of VEXAS syndrome in Austria
35. Acetylcholine receptor and muscle-specific tyrosine kinase antibodies detection: is it time for a change?
36. Performance of the 2009 CKDEPI, 2021 CKDEPI, and EKFC equations among high-risk patients in Denmark
37. Biotin interference in immunoassays: water under the bridge?
38. The new synthetic benzimidazole opioid etonitazepipne: an emerging fatal harm and a challenge for laboratory medicine
39. Unexplained increase of serum carcinoembryonic antigen: don’t forget the thyroid!
40. Falsely elevated cortisol serum levels in preterm infants due to use of immunoassay
41. Misdiagnosis of Hb Bart’s disease: prenatal screening and diagnosis of thalassemia in special population