A Combination of Inflammatory and Hematological Markers is Strongly Associated with the Risk of Death in Both Mild and Severe Initial Disease in Unvaccinated Individuals with COVID-19 Infection [0.03%]
炎症和血液标志物的结合与未接种疫苗的COVID-19感染者的轻症和重症死亡风险增加有关
Parul Chopra,Tushar Sehgal,Ranjan Yadav et al.
Parul Chopra et al.
Background: Inflammatory and hematological markers are used extensively for early prognostication and monitoring in COVID-19.We aimed to determine whether routinely prescribed laboratory markers can predict adverse outcom...
Scientific Journals Should Encourage, Not Hinder, Debates About Their Published Papers [0.03%]
科学期刊应该鼓励而不是阻碍对已发表论文的讨论
Eleftherios P Diamandis
Eleftherios P Diamandis
The revolution in electronic publishing now allows for papers to be continuously critiqued through letters to the editor, online comments, tweets and other means. However, established top-ranked journals still pose serious barriers regardin...
The Exposure to Human Breast Cancer Cells Altered 14 Post-Translational Modifications of Human Serum Albumin [0.03%]
人类乳腺癌细胞对人血清白蛋白的14种翻译后修饰的影响分析
Surya Kannan,Serhiy Souchelnytskyi
Surya Kannan
Purpose: Serum albumin is in contact with practically all cells in the human body, including tumor cells in cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to explore whether cancer cells affect post-translational modifica...
A Case of Clinical Confusion Due to Erroneous M-protein Quantifications: To Splice or Skim? [0.03%]
由于错误的M蛋白定量而导致临床困惑的一个案例：是剪接还是刮取？
Pak Cheung Chan,Amir Karin,Signy Chow
Pak Cheung Chan
An M-protein identified on electrophoresis is conventionally quantified by integrating the M-spike from baseline (PD), invariably including some irrelevant/background proteins. The use of an alternative approach that skims the M-spike tange...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2022 Dec 12;33(4):334-341. DOI: 2022
On the Introduction of the Editorial Manager System for eJIFCC Manuscript Handling [0.03%]
关于在eJIFCC手稿处理中引入编辑经理系统的说明
János Kappelmayer,Harjit Pal Bhattoa
János Kappelmayer
Correlation Between Time to Positive Result of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Self-Test and Viral Antigen Concentration [0.03%]
SARS-CoV-2病毒抗原自测快速抗原阳性结果时间与病毒抗原浓度的相关性
Gian Luca Salvagno,Brandon M Henry,Simone De Nitto et al.
Gian Luca Salvagno et al.
Background: This study was planned to investigate how the positivization time of a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen self-test may correlate with SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) antigen concentration measured with a quantitative labor...
Deletion in the BCL11B Gene and Intellectual Developmental Disorder with Speech Delay, Dysmorphic Facies, and T-cell Abnormalities - a Case Report [0.03%]
BCL11B基因缺失与智力发育障碍的关联：一份个案报告，涉及语言延迟、奇异面容及T细胞异常
Adriel Roa-Bautista,Mónica López-Duarte,Nerea Paz-Gandiaga et al.
Adriel Roa-Bautista et al.
Herein we described a retrospective analysis of a 13-year-old female patient with facial dysmorphia and immune disorder caused by BCL11B gene mutation. The patient upon physical examination presented a particular face (thin eyebrows, small ...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2022 Dec 12;33(4):325-333. DOI: 2022
Methods of Low-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Measurement: Analytical and Clinical Applications [0.03%]
低密度脂蛋白胆固醇的检测方法：分析及临床应用
S M Touhidul Islam,Bremansu Osa-Andrews,Patricia Mary Jones et al.
S M Touhidul Islam et al.
Among the five major classes of lipoprotein particles, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) is the primary lipoprotein risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) through the promotion of atherosclerotic pathogen...
Review
EJIFCC. 2022 Dec 12;33(4):282-294. DOI: 2022
Xikombiso Nkuna,Zodwa Dire,Siyabonga Khoza
Xikombiso Nkuna
Isolated increase in thyrotropin stimulating hormone (TSH) in a clinically euthyroid patient may be caused by the formation of a macromolecule between TSH and autoantibodies causing discordant thyroid function test results. Despite the effo...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2022 Dec 12;33(4):317-324. DOI: 2022
Jorge Ferriz Vivancos,Marta Fandos Sánchez,Pilar Teresa Timoneda Timoneda et al.
Jorge Ferriz Vivancos et al.
Anti-HMGCR, which was first identified in 2010, has emerged as an important mechanism of myopathogenesis in patients with exposure to statins. The availability of new detection methods has expanded the phenotypic spectrum with a subtype of ...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2022 Dec 12;33(4):342-349. DOI: 2022