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Biochemia Medica , Vol. 31 No. 2, 2021.

  • Publication date: 15.06.2021.
  • Published on HRČAK: 15.06.2021.

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Analysis of single comments left for bioRxiv preprints till September 2019 (page 177-184)

Mario Malički, Joseph Costello, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lauren A. Maggio
Original scientific paper


Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared (page 185-186)

Giuseppe Lippi, Mario Plebani
Letter to the Editor


Recommendations for the application and follow-up of quality controls in medical laboratories (page 187-209)

Jean-Marc Giannoli, Stéphanie Albarede, Thierry Avellan, Jean-Pierre Bouilloux, Régine Cartier, Richard Cohen, Nathalie Colard, Luc Essemilaire, Jean-Louis Galinier, Mathieu Kuentz, Mickaël Paris, Henri Portugal, Florian Scherrer, Jean-Pascal Siest, Anne Vassault, Jean-Michel Vialle
Review article


Assessment of antinuclear antibodies (ANA): National recommendations on behalf of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine (page 210-229)

Andrea Tešija Kuna, Lovorka Đerek, Vedrana Drvar, Ana Kozmar, Katarina Gugo
Review article


Current status of the lateral flow immunoassay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swabs (page 230-239)

Anita Somborac Bačura, Marija Dorotić, Leonarda Grošić, Monika Džimbeg, Slavica Dodig
Review article


Comparison of hyaluronic acid in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus (page 240-249)

Bogdan Cylwik, Ewa Gruszewska, Ewa Gindzienska-Sieskiewicz, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, Lech Chrostek
Original scientific paper


Decision support system through automatic algorithms and electronic request in diagnosis of anaemia for primary care patients (page 250-257)

Enrique Rodriguez-Borja, Adela Pozo-Giraldez, Macarena Díaz-Gimenez, Ausias Hervas-Romero, Africa Corchon-Peyrallo, Inmaculada Vinyals-Bellido, Arturo Carratala Calvo
Original scientific paper


Utility of icteric index in clinical laboratories: more than a preanalytical indicator (page 258-266)

Rufino Mondejar, María Mayor Reyes, Enrique Melguizo Madrid, Consuelo Cañavate Solano, Santiago Pérez Ramos
Original scientific paper


Order of draw of blood samples affect potassium results without K-EDTA contamination during routine workflow (page 267-275)

Şerif Ercan, Bahri Ramadan, Ozan Gerenli
Original scientific paper


Impact of combining data from multiple instruments on performance of patient-based real-time quality control (page 276-282)

Qianqian Zhou, Tze Ping Loh, Tony Badrick, Chun Yee Lim
Original scientific paper


Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children in Children’s Hospital Zagreb during the initial and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia (page 283-294)

Jasna Lenicek Krleza, Renata Zrinski Topic, Vladimir Stevanovic, Amarela Lukic-Grlic, Irena Tabain, Zrinjka Misak, Goran Roic, Bernard Kaic, Dijana Mayer, Zeljka Hruskar, Ljubo Barbic, Tatjana Vilibic-Cavlek
Original scientific paper


The comparison of the three assays for determination of fecal calprotectin in inflammatory bowel disease (page 295-301)

Joško Osredkar, Tina Kurent, Teja Fabjan, Kristina Kumer, Elizabeta Božnar Alič, David Drobne
Original scientific paper


Reporting of activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT): Could we achieve better comparability of the results? (page 302-308)

Ana Bronić, Sandra Margetić, Desiree Coen Herak, Marija Milić, Branka Krešić, Vanja Radišić Biljak, Jasna Leniček Krleža
Original scientific paper


Performance of D-dimer for predicting sepsis mortality in the intensive care unit (page 309-317)

Yan-Qiu Han, Li Yan, Lei Zhang, Pei-Heng Ouyang, Peng Li, Giuseppe Lippi, Zhi-De Hu
Original scientific paper


The rise in preanalytical errors during COVID-19 pandemic (page 318-324)

Tapasyapreeti Mukhopadhyay, Arulselvi Subramanian, Shivam Pandey, Nirupam Madaan, Anjan Trikha, Rajesh Malhotra
Original scientific paper


Survey on reporting of epithelial cells in urine sediment as part of external quality assessment programs in Brazilian laboratories (page 325-330)

José A. T. Poloni, Adriana de Oliveira Vieira, Caroline R. M. dos Santos, Ana-Maria Simundic, Liane N. Rotta
Original scientific paper


Laboratory professionals’ attitudes towards ISO 15189:2012 accreditation: an anonymous survey of three Croatian accredited medical laboratories (page 331-341)

Ivana Lapić, Dunja Rogić, Matea Ivić, Marina Tomičević, Mirjana Mariana Kardum Paro, Lovorka Đerek, Ines Alpeza Viman
Original scientific paper


The response of total testing process in clinical laboratory medicine to COVID-19
pandemic (page 342-350)

Funda Eren, Merve Ergin Tuncay, Esra Firat Oguz, Salim Neselioglu, Ozcan Erel
Original scientific paper


Detection of monoclonal protein by capillary zone electrophoresis can be challenged by iodinated contrast agent interference: a case report (page 359-362)

Clément Capaldo, Mourad Cheddad El Aouni, Damien Laurelli, Cyril Leven, Jean-Luc Carré
Case report


Delayed diagnosis and treatment of extreme hypertriglyceridemia due to rejection of a lipemic sample (page 363-371)

Jan Van Elslande, Samira Hijjit, Katrien De Vusser, Michel Langlois, Björn Meijers, Ann Mertens, Bart Van der Schueren, Glynis Frans, Pieter Vermeersch
Case report


The missing slope: paradoxical shortening of activated partial thromboplastin time in a patient on unfractionated heparin therapy (page 372-376)

Ivana Lapić, Ana Lončar Vrančić, Désirée Coen Herak, Dunja Rogić
Case report


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