July 14, 2006
chemistry
features
Hyperammonemia in a 20-Year-Old Woman
Adil I. Khan, Michael Cimo, Ibrahim A. Hashim and Frank H. WiansJr [Apr 2006]
Protein Bands in All Lanes of the Immunofixation Electrophoresis Pattern of Serum From a 50-Year-Old Saudi Woman
Yusra Othman [Mar 2006]
Nausea Vomiting and Decreased Level of Consciousness in a Patient with Chronic Back Pain
Jeffrey W. Oliver, R. Scott Akins, Dale M. Dunn, Brent Farnesworth, Cynthia Jumper and Charles Bradley [Sep 2005]
"CRAB" Findings in a Patient With Fatigue and a History of Poor Appetite
Mandolin Ziadie and Frank H. Wians [Aug 2005]
Diagnosing Prostate Cancer
Steven Woeste [July 2005]
Worsening Shortness of Breath in a 62-Year-Old Man
Matthew R. Plymyer [May 2005]
Marked Hyponatremia in a 74-Year-Old Man
Matthew R. Plymyer [Apr 2004]
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
Steven Woeste [11 2004]
Fatigue Bronze-Colored Skin and Skin Ulcerations in a 51-Year-Old Alcoholic Woman
Amanda Rivera-Begeman and Manni Yeggapan [Oct 2004]
Tandem Mass Spectrometry in the Newborn Screening Laboratory
[Jul 2003]
Why Do We Need Another Test For Congestive Heart Failure?
Michael Leuther [Mar 2003]
New Tools Make Testing for Viruses and Blood Components Faster and Easier
[Jan 2003]
Autoimmune Hepatitis Type 2
Monte S. Willis and M. Jane Latimer [April 2002]
Outlook – Laboratory Equipment Trends: New medical devices offer speed safety to laboratory professionals
[Feb 2002]
Five Top Laboratory Issues From 2002
[Dec 2002]
Hospital and Commercial Laboratories Form Ends of an Expanding Spectrum
Peggy S. Simpson and Emerson E. Clark [Oct 2001]
your lab focus
Principles of Immunochemical Techniques Used in Clinical Laboratories
Marja E. Koivunen and Richard L. Krogsrud [Aug 2006]
Drugs of Abuse: Analyses and Ingested Agents That Can Induce Interference or Cross-Reactivity
Michael F. Neerman [Jun 2006]
Feasibility of Multiparametric Screening for Glucose Tolerance
Agostino Ognibene, Edoardo Mannucci, Marco Brogi, Iolanda Sposato, Alessandro Terreni, Francesco Cremasco, Vieri Boddi, Gianni Messeri and Carlo Maria Rotella [Jun 2006]
Laboratory Diagnosis of Dementia
Karen SantaCruz [Jun 2006]
The Glomerular Filtration Rate: An Important Test for Diagnosis Staging and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease
Sherry Woodhouse, Wayne Batten, Helen Hendrick and Paul Allen Malek [Apr 2006]
Laboratory Investigation of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Majid Moridani and Shana Ben-Poorat [Mar 2006]
Gene-Environment Interactions: Paraoxonase (PON1) and Sensitivity to Organophosphate Toxicity
Lucio G. Costa, Toby B. Cole and Clement E. Furlong [Feb 2006]
Hypokalemia and Reversible Paralysis in a Young Hispanic Male
Patricia M. Haibach [Feb 2006]
Validating New Reagents: Roadmaps Through the Wilderness
Roberta A. Martindale, George S. Cembrowski, Lucille J. Journault, Jennifer L. Crawford, Chi Tran, Tammy L. Hofer, Bev J. Rintoul, Jean S. Der, Cathy W. Revers, Cheryl A. Vesso, Carol E. Shalapay, Connie I. Prosser and Donald F. LeGatt [Jun 2006]
Serum Amyloid A Concentrations in Full-Term Infant Umbilical Cord Serum Using a Solid Phase Indirect ELISA
Stephen M. Golden, , Ileana Hauge, , Robert Elwood, , Steve Young, Jennifer Thornton, and [June 2005]
Diagnosis Of Glutaric Acidemia Type I: A Cautionary Note
Dinesh Rakheja, Vivian K. Jones, Alberto B. Burlina, Michael J. Bennett and [Mar 2005]
Clinical Utility of Sensitive TSH Measurements
Lynn R. Witherspoon [Nov 2005]
Reagent Carryover Studies: Preventing Analytical Error with Open Clinical Chemistry Systems
Joseph Boneno, Michelle Fokakis and Dave Armbruster [Nov 2005]
Glomerular and Non-Glomerular Haematuria: Preservation of Urine Sediment
PV Bottini, CR Garlipp, JR Lauand, SG Lara Cioffi, SH Afaz and R Lopes Prates [Oct 2005]
Comparison of Serum Malondialdehyde Levels Determined by Two Different Methods in Patients With COPD: HPLC or TBARS Methods
Tuncer Tug, Fikret Karatas, Selim Murat Terzi and Necmi Ozdemir [Jan 2005]
Normoglycemia May Encompass Two Subpopulations With Respect to Vascular Risk in Non-Obese Caucasian Women
Kristina Jackson Behan and Raid W. Amin [Jan 2005]
Refeeding Syndrome in a Severely Malnourished Child
Tina Schade Willis Rae Boswell and Monte Willis [Sep 2004]
Overview of the Designer Drug Ecstasy
Jeri D. Ropero-Miller [Jun 2004]
Urine Drug Testing: Approaches to Screening and Confirmation Testing
Gifford Lum and Barry Mushlin [Jun 2004]
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Genomic Picture Predicts a Changing Response From the Laboratory–Part II
Eric B. Staros [May 2004]
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Genomic Picture Predicts a Changing Response From the Laboratory–Part I
Eric B. Staros [Apr 2004]
D-Dimer Testing for Suspected Pulmonary Embolism: Performance of Two Rapid Quantitative Assays
Pierre Toulon and Claire Lecourvoisier [Feb 2004]
Evaluation of Potassium Values in a Cancer Patient Population
Beverly C. Handy and Yu Shen [Feb 2004]
Immune Function Assay Enters the Clinical Laboratory
Virginia C. Hughes [Nov 2004]
Fetal Scalp Blood Sampling-Limited Role in Contemporary Obstetric Practice: Part II
Zsakeba Henderson and Jeffrey L. Ecker [Aug 2003]
Automated Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay for Measurement of Increased Total Homocysteine Plasma Concentrations in Hemodialysis Patients
Robert Fritsche-Polanz, Andrea Huber Wolfgang Hagen, Alexandra Feix, Anna-Christine Hauser, Gere Sunder-Plassmann, Christian Bieglmayer and Manuela Födinger [Jul 2003]
Fetal Scalp Blood Sampling-Limited Role in Contemporary Obstetric Practice: Part I
Zsakeba HendersonMD and Jeffrey L. EckerMD [Jul 2003]
Desirable Components of a Screening Lipid Profile
Jane F. Emerson [Jun 2003]
Guidelines for Airfuging
[Mar 2003]
Reducing Phlebotomy Losses by Streamlining Laboratory Test Ordering in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Sunita Saxena, Howard Belzberg, Marilyn Chogyoji, Susan WilcoxMHA and Ira A. Shulman [Oct 2003]
The Emerging Role of Monitoring Serum HER-2/neu Oncoprotein Levels in Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Walter P. Carney [Jan 2003]
Cold Agglutinin Syndrome
Finola Johnson [Jun 2002]
A Comparison of an Immunoassay with Acid-Fast Staining to Detect Cryptosporidium
Brian J. Harrington and Hailu Kassa [Jun 2002]
Comparison of the Tandem-E Immuno-enzymetric and Immuno-1 PSA Assays
Julio C. Delgado, Kevin R. Loughlin, Ronald J. Bosch and Milenko J. Tanasijevic [Mar 2002]
Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis
Vicky A. LeGrys [Mar 2002]
The Role of D-Dimer in the Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism
Donald H. Schreiber [Feb 2002]
African Sleeping Sickness in a Young American Tourist
Janice M. Conway-Klaassen, Janis M. Wyrick-Glatzel, Noreen Neyrinck and Patricia A. Belair [Oct 2002]
Biochemical Markers in Risk Stratification and Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Henry O. Ogedegbe [Jan 2002]
Direct and Indirect Bilirubin
[Jul 2001]
Lipids Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins and Their Disease Associations
Henry O. Ogedegbe and David W. Brown [Jul 2001]
The Monitoring of Metabolic Control for Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
Anthony L. McCall, Nancy Allison and Elizabeth Stephens [Jul 2001]
Acute Leukopenia: A Case Study
Robert D. Robison and Tina Morgan [Jun 2001]
The Significance of Subtle Alterations in Routine Serum Protein Electrophoresis Patterns in One Laboratory
Stephen L. Strobel [Jun 2001]
The Role of Free PSA in the Detectionof Prostate Cancer
Paula C. Southwick [May 2001]
Testing for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
Jerry Katzmann [May 2001]
Testing for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
Jerry Katzmann [May 2001]
Correlation of the Abbott Spectrum with the Olympus AU 5000 for Automated Urine Chemistry Analysis
Jesse F. Brown [Nov 2001]
CX9 vs. LX20
Debbi Tiffany [Nov 2001]
CEupdates
Assessing the Pregnant Patient: A Review of New Potential Screening Tests
Latisha Love-Gregory and Ann M. Gronowski [Jun 2006]
A Guide to the Interpretation of CSF Indices
Mandolin Ziadie and Frank H. WiansJr. [Sep 2005]
Clinical Evaluation and the Role of the Laboratory in Diagnosing Pediatric Lead Poisoning
Robert Branscomb [Mar 2005]
Reproductive Endocrinology in Infertility
Janine Denis Cook [Sep 2004]
Microfluidics for Clinical Diagnostics—Promise and Current Reality
Bernhard H. Weigl and Ron L. Bardell [Apr 2004]
A Primer for ICP-Mass Spectrometry
Ben M. West [Dec 2004]
Metabolic Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medications: Clinical Laboratory Implications
Thomas E. Hansen, Kristen Snyder, Erik Messamore and William F. Hoffman [Oct 2004]
Ischemia Modified Albumin Measured by the Albumin Cobalt Binding Test: A Clinical and Analytical Review
Deniz Aslan and Fred S. Apple [Jan 2004]
Urine-Based Assays for Bladder Cancer
Robert H. GetzenbergPhD [Aug 2003]
pH Electrodes Ion-Selective Electrodes and Oxygen Sensors: Electrochemical Sensors Used in the Medical Field
John R. Allen [Jul 2003]
Immunohistochemistry of the Skin
David Tacha [Apr 2003]
Effects Of Exercise On Laboratory Test Results
Stacy E. Foran, Kent B. Lewandrowski and Alexander Kratz [Oct 2003]
Common Errors in Sweat Testing Reporting for Cystic Fibrosis
Vicky A. LeGrys [Jan 2002]
Laboratory Testing To Assess Fetal Lung Maturity
Darlynn J. Lafler and Arturo Mendoza [Jul 2001]
The Use of Tests for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Thyroid Disease
Mary H. Samuels [May 2001]
editorials
Lab Methods/Instruments Then and Now: Wet Chemistry Tests and Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Patricia M. Jones [ ]
Letters: Opinions on GYN-Cytology Proficiency Testing
John Morton, Jo Ann Shaw, Roberta M. Goodell, Paul Elgert and Gary W. Gill [ ]
Letters: Response to Q&A on Unacceptable (Hemolyzed) Specimens for Testing
Patti Jones, Martin Kroll, Paul Orsulak and Ibrahim Hashim [ ]