Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine journal (CCLM)
Volume 54, Issue 2 – February 2016
Editorial
- Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: the match continues Panteghini, Mauro / Sandberg, Sverre
Review
- Application of fatty acid and lipid measurements in neuropsychiatry Grela, Agatha / Rachel, Wojciech / Cole, Michael / Zyss, Tomasz / Zięba, Andrzej / Piekoszewski, Wojciech
Mini Review
- The Janus faces of acquired angioedema: C1-inhibitor deficiency, lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity Wu, Maddalena Alessandra / Castelli, Roberto
Opinion Papers
- How to report results of prothrombin and activated partial thromboplastin times Tripodi, Armando / Lippi, Giuseppe / Plebani, Mario
- Useful measures and models for analytical quality management in medical laboratories Westgard, James O.
- Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: revolution or evolution? Oosterhuis, Wytze P. / Theodorsson, Elvar
Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
- Rapid detection of Mmalton α1-antitrypsin deficiency allele by real-time PCR and melting curves in whole blood, serum and dried blood spot samples Belmonte, Irene / Montoto, Luciana / Miravitlles, Marc / Barrecheguren, Miriam / Esquinas, Cristina / Rodríguez, Esther / Giralt, Marina / Rodríguez-Frías, Francisco
General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
- Diagnostic and clinical significance of Crohn’s disease-specific pancreatic anti-GP2 and anti-CUZD1 antibodies Pavlidis, Polychronis / Komorowski, Lars / Teegen, Bianca / Liaskos, Christos / Koutsoumpas, Andreas L. / Smyk, Daniel S. / Perricone, Carlo / Mytilinaiou, Maria G. / Stocker, Winfried / Forbes, Alastair / Bogdanos, Dimitrios P.
- Immunoassays for the detection of IgA antibodies to tissue transglutaminase: significance of multiples of the upper limit of normal and inter-assay correlations Suh-Lailam, Brenda B. / Davis, K. Wayne / Tebo, Anne E.
- Effects of biobanking conditions on six antibiotic substances in human serum assessed by a novel evaluation protocol Zander, Johannes / Maier, Barbara / Zoller, Michael / Döbbeler, Gundula / Frey, Lorenz / Teupser, Daniel / Vogeser, Michael
Haematology and Coagulation
- Measurement of dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban in samples of plasma, serum and urine, under real life conditions. An international study Harenberg, Job / Du, Shanshan / Wehling, Martin / Zolfaghari, Shabnam / Weiss, Christel / Krämer, Roland / Walenga, Jeanine
Reference Values and Biological Variations
- Upper reference limits for cerebrospinal fluid total protein and albumin quotient based on a large cohort of control patients: implications for increased clinical specificity Hegen, Harald / Auer, Michael / Zeileis, Achim / Deisenhammer, Florian
- Reference intervals for bone turnover markers in Spanish premenopausal women Guañabens, Núria / Filella, Xavier / Monegal, Ana / Gómez-Vaquero, Carmen / Bonet, María / Buquet, Dolors / Casado, Enrique / Cerdá, Dacia / Erra, Alba / Martinez, Silvia / Montalá, Núria / Pitarch, Concepción / Kanterewicz, Eduardo / Sala, Miquel / Surís, Xavier / Torres, Ferran / on behalf of the LabOscat Study Group
Cancer Diagnostics
- Citrulline as a biomarker of gastrointestinal toxicity in patients with rectal carcinoma treated with chemoradiation Zezulová, Michaela / Bartoušková, Marie / Hlídková, Eva / Adam, Tomáš / Krčmová, Lenka Kujovská / Červinková, Barbora / Solichová, Dagmar / Zlevorová, Miloslava / Cwiertka, Karel / Friedecký, David / Vrána, David / Melichar, Bohuslav
- mRNA overexpression of kallikrein-related peptidase 14 (KLK14) is an independent predictor of poor overall survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients Kontos, Christos K. / Adamopoulos, Panagiotis G. / Papageorgiou, Sotirios G. / Pappa, Vassiliki / Scorilas, Andreas
Cardiovascular Diseases
- TBX20 loss-of-function mutation associated with familial dilated cardiomyopathy Zhao, Cui-Mei / Bing-Sun / Song, Hao-Ming / Wang, Juan / Xu, Wen-Jun / Jiang, Jin-Fa / Qiu, Xing-Biao / Yuan, Fang / Xu, Jia-Hong / Yang, Yi-Qing
- Cardiac troponin I release after a basketball match in elite, amateur and junior players López-Laval, Isaac / Legaz-Arrese, Alejandro / George, Keith / Serveto-Galindo, Olga / González-Rave, José María / Reverter-Masia, Joaquín / Munguía-Izquierdo, Diego
- The role of timely measurement of galectin-3, NT-proBNP, cystatin C and hsTnT in predicting prognosis and heart function after heart transplantation Franeková, Janka / Hošková, Lenka / Sečník, Peter / Pazderník, Michal / Kotrbatá, Markéta / Kubíček, Zdeněk / Jabor, Antonín
Infectious Diseases
- Neutrophil CD64 combined with PCT, CRP and WBC improves the sensitivity for the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis Yang, Ai-Ping / Liu, Jun / Yue, Lei-He / Wang, Hong-Qi / Yang, Wen-Juan / Yang, Guo-Hui
- A comparison of three commercial platforms for urinary NGAL in critically ill adults Cruz, Dinna N. / Virzì, Grazia Maria / Brocca, Alessandra / Ronco, Claudio / Giavarina, Davide
Diabetes
- Liquid citrate acidification introduces significant glucose bias and leads to misclassification of patients with diabetes Juricic, Gordana / Kopcinovic, Lara Milevoj / Saracevic, Andrea / Bakliza, Ana / Simundic, Ana-Maria
Letter to the Editors
- A rare and unstable hemoglobin variant, Hb M Dothan β 25/26 (-GTG), detected by the anomalous cytogram on Sysmex XE-2100 Mongelli, Francesco / Barberio, Giuseppina / Ivaldi, Giovanni
- Hb Hope [β136Gly→Asp] and Hb Grady [α119_120insGluPheThr] compound heterozygosity in a Mauritanian patient Delacour, Hervé / Konopacki, Johanna / Plantamura, Julie / Lacan, Philippe / Joly, Philippe
- Falsely elevated ferritin in patients with a high concentration of rheumatoid factor Wu, Zhi-Qi / Zhang, Yan / Huang, Hui-Qing / Xie, Erfu / Xu, Hua-Guo
- Susceptibility of commonly used ferritin assays to the classic hook effect Ranjitkar, Pratistha / Turtle, Cameron J. / Harris, Neil S. / Holmes, Daniel T. / Pyle-Eilola, Amy / Maloney, David G. / Greene, Dina N.
- Comparison of the Elecsys calcitonin assay with the Immulite 1000 assay. Describing one case with heterophilic antibody interference Bories, Phuong-Nhi / Broutin, Antoine / Delette, Anne / Labelle, Gary / Popovici, Theodora
- Performance evaluation of low platelet count and platelet clumps detection on Mindray BC-6800 hematology analyzer Fuster, Óscar / Andino, Belinda / Laiz, Begoña
- Fetal sex discordance between sequencing-based and real-time PCR non-invasive prenatal test due to a vanishing twin Yee Ho, Sherry Sze / Leow, Gek Har / Asibal, Cecille Laureano / Koay, Evelyn Siew-Chuan / Choolani, Mahesh
- Total HIV-1 DNA detection and quantification in peripheral blood by COBAS®AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® HIV-1 Test, v2.0 Surdo, Matteo / Bertoli, Ada / Colucci, Giuseppe / Sarmati, Loredana / Andreoni, Massimo / Perno, Carlo Federico / Ceccherini-Silberstein, Francesca / Ciotti, Marco
- A replacement for the testosterone “sex gap” Diamandis, Eleftherios P.
- Added value of indirect immunofluorescence intensity of automated antinuclear antibody testing in a secondary hospital setting Oyaert, Matthijs / Bossuyt, Xavier / Ravelingien, Isabelle / Van Hoovels, Liev