High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays - How to Implement them Successfully [0.03%]
高敏感性心肌肌钙蛋白检测的成功实施要点
Frederick K Korley,Allan S Jaffe
Frederick K Korley
High sensitivity troponin (hsTn) assays provide an unprecedented opportunity to improve the detection and treatment of cardiac injury from coronary and non-coronary causes. They may also play a role in guiding the primary and secondary prev...
Antoni Bayes-Genis,Josep Lupón,Allan S Jaffe
Antoni Bayes-Genis
Over the last 15 years, the hypothesis that intensified treatment directed at reducing natriuretic peptide (NP) concentrations may improve the outcomes of patients with heart failure (HF) has been scrutinized in several prospective clinical...
Analytical Issues with Natriuretic Peptides - has this been Overly Simplified? [0.03%]
利钠肽的分析问题-这个问题被过于简化了吗？
Alexander G Semenov,Alexey G Katrukha
Alexander G Semenov
Natriuretic peptides (NPs) were first described as cardiac biomarkers more than two decades ago. Since that time, numerous studies have confirmed NPs' diagnostic and prognostic utilities as biomarkers of myocardial function. However, we mus...
Editorial
EJIFCC. 2016 Aug 1;27(3):186-8. DOI: 2016
Éva Ajzner
Éva Ajzner
Apart from maintaining the highest quality of analytical test results, laboratories are now getting more focused on how to achieve the greatest impact of laboratory results on their patient's outcome. Laboratory professionals are now in the...
Clinical Laboratories - Production Factories or Specialized Diagnostic Centers [0.03%]
临床实验室——生产工厂还是专业诊断中心？
János Kappelmayer,Judit Tóth
János Kappelmayer
Since a large proportion of medical decisions are based on laboratory results, clinical laboratories should meet the increasing demand of clinicians and their patients. Huge central laboratories may process over 10 million tests annually; t...
Interpretation of Blood Microbiology Results - Function of the Clinical Microbiologist [0.03%]
血培养结果的解读——临床微生物学家的作用
Katalin Kristóf,Júlia Pongrácz
Katalin Kristóf
The proper use and interpretation of blood microbiology results may be one of the most challenging and one of the most important functions of clinical microbiology laboratories. Effective implementation of this function requires careful con...
Deficiencies of the Natural Anticoagulants - Novel Clinical Laboratory Aspects of Thrombophilia Testing [0.03%]
天然抗凝物质的缺陷-血栓形成倾向检测的新型临床实验室方面
Zsuzsanna Bereczky,Réka Gindele,Marianna Speker et al.
Zsuzsanna Bereczky et al.
Venous thrombosis is a typical common complex disease as acquired and genetic causes play a role in its development. The different "loss of function" mutations of the natural anticoagulant system lead to antithrombin (AT), protein C (PC) an...
The Clinical Value of Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor (suPAR) Levels in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Disorders [0.03%]
自身免疫性结缔组织病中可溶性urokinase型纤溶酶原激活物受体(suPAR)水平的临床价值
Barna Vasarhelyi,Gergely Toldi,Attila Balog
Barna Vasarhelyi
The assessment of the general inflammatory condition of patients with autoimmune connective tissue disorders (ACTD) is a major challenge. The use of traditional inflammatory markers including CRP-levels and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (E...