clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
Transcript
clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE Published in Association with the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine CCLM is the official journal of the Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland (ACBI), the Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry (BVKC/SBCC), the German United Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL), the Hungarian Society of Laboratory Medicine (MLDT), the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC), the Korean Society of Clinical Chemistry (KSCC), the Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry (SZKK), the Spanish Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology (SEQC), and the Turkish Biochemical Society (TBD). EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORIAL BOARD Mario Plebani Padova, Italy Marianne Abi Fadel Beirut, Lebanon Francisco V. Alvarez Oviedo, Spain Hassan M.E. Azzazy Cairo, Egypt Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu Hong Kong, China Eleftherios P. Diamandis, Toronto, Canada Arnold von Eckardstein Zurich, Switzerland Emmanuel Favaloro Westmead, Australia Debabrata Ghosh New Delhi, India Andrea Griesmacher Innsbruck, Austria Wolfgang Herrmann Homburg/Saar, Germany Johannes J.M.L. Hoffmann Nuenen, Netherlands Herbert Hooijkaas Rotterdam, Netherlands ASSOCIATE EDITORS Giuseppe Lippi Reviews Editor Parma, Italy Philippe Gillery Reims, France Steven Kazmierczak Portland, USA Karl J. Lackner Mainz, Germany Bohuslav Melichar Olomouc, Czech Republic John B. Whitfield Brisbane, Australia Kiyoshi Ichihara Ube, Japan Naziha Kaabachi Tunis, Tunisia János Kappelmayer, Debrecen, Hungary Jeong-Ho Kim Seoul, Korea Wolfgang Korte St. Gallen, Switzerland Christos Kroupis Athens, Greece Leslie Charles Lai Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia W.K. Christopher Lam Taipa, Macau Sylvain Lehmann Montpellier, France Janja Marc Ljubljana, Slovenia Eiji Miyoshi Osaka, Japan Tomris Özben Antalya, Turkey Vladimir Palicka Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Mauro Panteghini Milan, Italy José M. Queraltó Barcelona, Spain Marileia Scartezini Curitiba, Brazil Gérard Siest, Nancy, France Ana-Maria Simundic Zagreb, Croatia Grazyna Sypniewska Bydgoszcz, Poland Gregory J. Tsongalis Lebanon, USA Pierre Wallemacq Brussels, Belgium Shengkai Yan Beijing, China Ian S. Young Belfast, UK MANAGING EDITOR Heike Jahnke Berlin, Germany Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/14/17 7:54 PM ABSTRACTED/INDEXED IN Indexed in Academic OneFile (Gale/Cengage Learning); Analytical Abstracts; Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index; Biological Abstracts; BIOSIS Previews; CAB Abstracts and Global Health; Chemical Abstracts and the CAS databases; Current Contents/Life Sciences; CSA Illustrata – Natural Sciences; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS); EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database; EMBiology; Index Medicus/MEDLINE; ISI Custom Information Services; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch); and Scopus. CCLM is the official journal of the Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland (ACBI), the Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry (BVKC/SBCC), the German United Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL), the Hungarian Society of Laboratory Medicine (MLDT), the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC), the Korean Society of Clinical Chemistry (KSCC), the Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry (SZKK), the Spanish Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology (SEQC), and the Turkish Biochemical Society (TBD). The publisher, together with the authors and editors, has taken great pains to ensure that all information presented in this work (programs, applications, amounts, dosages, etc.) reflects the standard of knowledge at the time of publication. Despite careful manuscript preparation and proof correction, errors can nevertheless occur. Authors, editors and publisher disclaim all responsibility for any errors or omissions or liability for the results obtained from use of the information, or parts thereof, contained in this work. The citation of registered names, trade names, trademarks, etc. in this work does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from laws and regulations protecting trademarks etc. and therefore free for general use. ISSN 1434-6621 ∙ e-ISSN1437-4331 ∙ CODEN CCLMFW All information regarding notes for contributors, subscriptions, Open access, back volumes and orders is available online at www.degruyter.com/cclm. RESPONSIBLE EDITOR(S) Prof. Dr. Mario Plebani, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Medicina di Laboratorio, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Nicolo Giustiniani 2, 35131 Padova, Italy. Tel.: +390 (0)49 821 2792, Fax: +390 (0)49 663 240, Email: [email protected] JOURNAL MANAGER Heike Jahnke, De Gruyter, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0)30 260 05 – 220, Fax: +49 (0)30 260 05 – 325, Email: [email protected] RESPONSIBLE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS Panagiota Herbrand, De Gruyter, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 80807 München, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0)89 769 02 – 394, Fax: +49 (0)89 769 02 – 350, Email: [email protected] © 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston TYPESETTING Compuscript Ltd., Shannon, Ireland PRINTING Franz X. Stückle Druck und Verlag e.K., Ettenheim Printed in Germany COVER ILLUSTRATION Research lab © Eisenhans. Permission to use the image on the cover granted by Fotolia LLC. Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/14/17 7:54 PM Clin Chem Lab Med 2012;50(12):2065–2250, © 2012 by Walter De Gruyter • Berlin • Boston CONTENTS Editorials Phlebotomy, stat testing and laboratory organization: an intriguing relationship Giuseppe Lippi, Ana-Maria Simundic and Mario Plebani2065 Refers to article on p 2141 Human epididymis protein 4: the start of a postROMAn era? Bohuslav Melichar2069 Refers to articles on pp 2127, 2171, 2181, 2189 Hyperhomocysteinemia in health and disease: where we are now, and where do we go from here? Giuseppe Lippi and Mario Plebani2075 Refers to article on p 2213 REVIEWS The usefulness of cystatin C and related formulae in pediatrics Guido Filler, Shih-Han S. Huang and Abeer Yasin2081 The emerging role of biomarkers and bio-impedance in evaluating hydration status in patients with acute heart failure Salvatore Di Somma, Silvia Navarin, Stefania Giordano, Francesco Spadini, Giuseppe Lippi, Gianfranco Cervellin, Bryan V. Dieffenbach and Alan S. Maisel2093 Biomarkers in primary open angle glaucoma Haris Kokotas, Christos Kroupis, Dimitrios Chiras, Maria Grigoriadou, Klea Lamnissou, Michael B. Petersen and George Kitsos2107 MINI REVIEW Identification of circulating microRNAs as biomarkers in cancers: what have we got? Yu Sun, Kuo Zhang, Gaowei Fan and Jinming Li2121 OPINION PAPER HE4 in gynecological cancers: report of a European investigators and experts meeting Mario Plebani, on behalf of the HE4 Study Group2127 GUIDELINES AND RECOMMENDATIONS Position paper on laboratory testing for patients taking new oral anticoagulants. Consensus document of FCSA, SIMeL, SIBioC and CISMEL Armando Tripodi, Giancarlo Di Iorio, Giuseppe Lippi, Sophie Testa and Cesare Manotti2137 GENERAL CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE Reducing the number of clinical stat phlebotomy orders: feasible or not? Jolanda Scherrenburg, Dennis J. van de Wijngaart and Pim M.W. Janssens2141 Calculating acid-base and oxygenation status during COPD exacerbation using mathematically arterialised venous blood Stephen E. Rees, Beate A. Rychwicka-Kielek, Bjarne F. Andersen, Rana Bibi, Jan F. Pedersen, Ulla M. Weinreich, Lene B. Birket-Smith and Søren R. Kristensen2149 UrineCART, a machine learning method for establishment of review rules based on UF-1000i flow cytometry and dipstick or reflectance photometer Cao Yuan, Cheng Ming and Hu Chengjin2155 REFERENCE VALUES AND BIOLOGICAL VARIATIONS Assessing seasonality in clinical research Ton J. Cleophas and Aeilko H. Zwinderman 2163 CANCER DIAGNOSTICS Identification of a novel in-frame deletion in BRCA2 and analysis of variants of BRCA1/2 in Italian patients affected with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer Maria Teresa Vietri, Anna Maria Molinari, Maria Laura De Paola, Flavia Cantile, Morena Fasano and Michele Cioffi2171 Human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) in benign and malignant diseases Linda Hertlein, Petra Stieber, Angela Kirschenhofer, Sophie Fürst, Doris Mayr, Karin Hofmann, Katja Krocker, Dorothea Nagel, Miriam Lenhard and Alexander Burges2181 Human epididymis protein 4 as a serum marker for diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma and prediction of clinical outcome Laura Zanotti, Eliana Bignotti, Stefano Calza, Elisabetta Bandiera, Giuseppina Ruggeri, Claudio Galli, Germana Tognon, Monica Ragnoli, Chiara Romani, Renata A. Tassi, Luigi Caimi, Franco E. Odicino, Enrico Sartori, Sergio Pecorelli and Antonella Ravaggi2189 A predictive equation to adjust for clinical variables in soluble mesothelin-related protein (SMRP) levels Eun-Kee Park, Donald Wilson and Deborah H. Yates2199 Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/14/17 7:54 PM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES Vitamin D deficiency parallels inflammation and immune activation, the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study Christian Murr, Stefan Pilz, Tanja B. Grammer, Marcus E. Kleber, Andreas Meinitzer, Bernhard O. Boehm, Winfried März and Dietmar Fuchs2205 Plasma homocysteine and the risk of venous thromboembolism: insights from the FIELD study Markus Herrmann, Malcolm J. Whiting, Anne-Sophie Veillard, Christian Ehnholm, David R. Sullivan and Anthony C. Keech; for the FIELD study investigators 2213 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A two-base-pairs deletion in the albumin gene causes a new case of analbuminemia Gianluca Caridi, Monica Dagnino, Marco Di Duca, Saikat Santra, Sarah Ball, Raashda A. Sulaiman, Monica Campagnoli, Monica Galliano and Lorenzo Minchiotti2221 Usefulness of an antiglycolytic granular mixture of sodium fluoride and citrate for stabilizing plasma homocysteine levels Els Dumoulin, Tom Hornsby, Dimitri Hemelsoet, Joris Delanghe and Veronique Stove2225 Phosphoethanolamine normal range in pediatric urines for hypophosphatasia screening Apolline Imbard, Corinne Alberti, Priscilla ArmoogumBoizeau, Chris Ottolenghi, Emilie Josserand, Odile Rigal and Jean-François Benoist2231 Risk of false positive hepatitis C virus RNA due to sample to sample carryover on an automated hematology analyzer Christine L. Schmotzer and Lan Zhou2235 Lack of commutability between a quality control material and plasma samples in a troponin I measurement system Beatriz Candás-Estébanez, Ruth Cano-Corres, Dolors Dot-Bach and José Valero-Politi 2237 Biological variation in pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A in healthy men and non-pregnant healthy women Mustafa Serteser, Abdurrahman Coskun, Ibrahim Unsal and Tamer C. Inal2239 Investigation of a slope discontinuity in a patients’ results distribution for D-dimer Bryon P. Jackson, Laura J. McCloskey and Douglas F. Stickle2243 Acknowledgment2247 Further insights on the relationship between bilirubin and C-reactive protein Giuseppe Lippi and Giovanni Targher 2229 Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/14/17 7:54 PM