Comment by Schmidt and Byrnes based on erroneous assumptions
Volume 83, Issue 5, September 2023, Page 356-357.
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Artificially raised creatinine concentrations due to analytical interference for samples contaminated with total parenteral nutrition fluid
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Ahead of Print. BackgroundA sample received in the laboratory from a patient receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) indicated that the patient may have renal dysfunction, but the results were not considered to be re…
Galactosylation of serum immunoglobulin G in myasthenia gravis with different autoantibodies
Volume 83, Issue 5, September 2023, Page 348-355.
Variation of eGFR reporting and CKD equations used in the United Kingdom
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Ahead of Print. BackgroundUK Clinical laboratories have been routinely reporting an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on creatinine measurements using an eGFR equation since the early 2000s. Though there…
SUMO specific peptidase 1 decreases after induction treatment, and its reduction predicts lower disease risk, better treatment response, longer survival of acute myeloid leukemia
Volume 83, Issue 5, September 2023, Page 283-289.
Standardising the biochemical confirmation of adult male hypogonadism; a joint position statement by the Society for Endocrinology and Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine*
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 223-227, July 2023. Background: Inter-assay variation between different immunoassays and different mass spectrometry methods hampers the biochemical confirmation of male hypogonadism. Furthermor…
Serum cortisol assay performance following the 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Ahead of Print. BackgroundThe 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test (ONDST) is recommended for the differential diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome and the investigation of adrenal incidentalomas. Despite documented…
Normalized TSH strategy can improve the initial assessment of thyroid nodules
Volume 83, Issue 5, September 2023, Page 318-322.
Cardiohepatic syndrome and its prognostic predictive ability in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
Volume 83, Issue 5, September 2023, Page 290-298.