CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

A primer on patient-based quality control techniques.

Strategies for mitigating risk posed by biotin interference on clinical immunoassays.

Fingerstick test quantifying humoral and cellular biomarkers indicative for M. leprae infection.

Continuous reference intervals for 38 biochemical markers in healthy children and adolescents: Comparisons to traditionally partitioned reference intervals.

Impact of clinical sample handling and processing on ultra-low level measurements of plasma cytokines.

Identification of germline pathogenic variants in DNA damage repair genes by a next-generation sequencing multigene panel in BRCAX patients.

AD biomarker discovery in CSF and in alternative matrices.

A false positive case of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in a patient with acute chest pain: Analytical study of the interference.

Superiority of high sensitivity cardiac troponin T vs. I for long-term prognostic value in patients with chest pain; Data from the Akershus Cardiac Examination (ACE) 3 Study.

Verification of separate measurement procedures where analytical determinations influence the clinical interpretation of GFR: Iohexol quantitation by HPLC and LC-MS/MS.

Assessment of lipid peroxidation and artificial neural network models in early Alzheimer Disease diagnosis.

Reference ranges of presepsin (soluble CD14 subtype) in term and preterm neonates without infection, in relation to gestational and postnatal age, in the first 28 days of life.

Errors in measuring plasma free fatty acid concentrations with a popular enzymatic colorimetric kit.

SLC22A3 is associated with lipoprotein (a) concentration and cardiovascular disease in familial hypercholesterolemia.

The potential of reducing AST testing in hospital settings.

Establishing thresholds and effects of gender, age, and season for thyroglobulin and thyroid peroxidase antibodies by mining real-world big data.

Serum amyloid A does not affect high-density lipoprotein cholesterol measurement by a homogeneous assay.

Circulating microRNAs to predict heart failure after acute myocardial infarction in women.

User competency is still a major factor affecting analytical performance of glucose meters in patient service.

Impact of testosterone assay standardization efforts assessed via accuracy-based proficiency testing.

Time from venipuncture to cell isolation: Impact on granulocyte-reactive antibody testing.

Overexpression of heat shock protein HSP90AA1 and translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane TOM34 in HCV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma: A pilot study.

Characterization of biotin interference in 21 Vitros 5600 immunoassays and risk mitigation for patient safety at a large academic medical center.

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T increases after stress echocardiography.

Identification of aspirin resistance using a PDW-miR92a-score: Validation in an intermittent claudication cohort.

Association between FSH, E1, and E2 levels in urine and serum in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Reference percentiles for paired arterial and venous umbilical cord blood gases: An indirect nonparametric approach.

Principal component and correlation analysis of biochemical and endocrine markers in a healthy pediatric population (CALIPER).

Biomarker panel in sleep apnea patients after an acute coronary event.

A review of biomarker utilization in the diagnosis and management of acute pancreatitis reveals amylase ordering is favored in patients requiring laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Reduction of pre-analytical errors in the clinical laboratory at the University Hospital of Korea through quality improvement activities.

Laboratory intervention to improve the request of urinary albumin in primary care patients with arterial hypertension and financial implications.

What is the optimal time for measuring glucose concentration to detect steroid-induced hyperglycemia in patients with rheumatic diseases?

An investigation of enzymatic creatinine interference in a patient receiving dopamine and dobutamine.

Characterization of bilirubin interference in three commonly used digoxin assays.

An insulin-dose error assessment grid: A new tool to evaluate glucose meter performance.

Hb Vanvitelli: A new unstable α-globin chain variant causes undiagnosed chronic haemolytic anaemia when co-inherited with deletion\u202f-\u202fα3.7.

Strategy for performing treponemal tests in reverse-sequence algorithms of syphilis diagnosis.

Relationship between free hemoglobin (hemolysis), potassium and ionized calcium in lithium heparin blood gas samples collected intraoperatively.

Endostatin predicts mortality in patients with acute dyspnea - a cohort study of patients seeking care in emergency departments.

Serum profile of transferrin isoforms in rheumatoid arthritis treated with biological drugs.

Automatic laboratory interventions to unmask and treat hypomagnesemia in the Emergency Department.

Retrospective Evaluation of 99th Percentile hCG Results to Adjust Clinical Decision Points.

Comparison of the Quantum Blue® Reader Point-of-Care system versus ELISA technique for therapeutic drug monitoring of Infliximab levels.

A Novel Approach to Remove Interference of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody with Serum Protein Electrophoresis.

Capillary electrophoresis and mutational images of hemoglobin sendagi [Β42 (CD1) PHE\u202f→\u202fVAL; HBB: C.127T→G].

Identification of novel and rare CYP21A2 variants in Chinese patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.