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Objective: Ascorbic acid is endogenously converted to oxalate and appears to increase the absorption of dietary oxalate, supplementation may increase the risk of kidney stones. In this study is aimed to investigate the relation between the calcium oxalate crystals and urinary...
Objective: It has been reported that glucose intake creates changes at the levels of some electrolytes in serum and urine. The most important change observed in urine is the increase in calcium levels and this is thought to be the result of increased insulin levels in response...
Objective: At Emergency Department, we aimed to compare the test results of serum samples obtained from the tubes containing thrombin to take short span of time for clotting (RST) with the tubes containing serum separator gel with clot activator (SST II Advance) that we have...
Objective: Hyperphosphatemia and high calcium X phosphate product are significant and common risk factors of cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. However, the relationship is not clear between increased risk and hyperphosphatemia and elevated calcium...
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the chemical effect of heparin on ionized calcium (iCa). In this multi-step experimental study, we analyzed serum samples with Nova CCX blood gas analyzer.
Materials and Methods: In the first two steps, we calculated the...
Aim: In this study, we compared 3 different clot-activator gel tubes to a glass reference tube and evaluated the effect of storage time on 30 different biochemical analytes.
Material and Methods: Blood samples were collected in 4 types of tubes: an...
Objective: In our study we aimed to investigate the role of fetuin-A, a systemic calcification inhibitor, and osteopontin, which plays an important role in calcification processes, in the pathogenesis of urinary tract stone disease.
Materials and Methods:...
Aim: Panic value refers to a laboratory test result that is life-threatening and requires immediate corrective action by the physician. Although there is no recommendation to re-run the panic-valued test, some laboratory specialists report the result after repeating the test....
Objective: Vitamin D has been suggested to have an effect on erythropoesis. In this study we aimed to investigate the association between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in premenopausal women.
Materials and Methods: A total...
Aim: The evaluation of biomarkers linked with inhibition and activation of vascular calcification in pre and post renal transplant period in renal transplant recipients was aimed in this research.Patients and
Methods: 35 recipients who had undergone...
Objective: Although there have been many studies about the pre-analytic errors of hemolysis on laboratory tests, different results were found with different work environments and different methods. This study was put together to investigate the effects of hemolysis on routine...
Objective: The use of different types of analyzers and samples lead to obtaining different test results. This study aimed to investigate whether the test results yielded by conventional blood gas analyzer (cBGA) are considered interchangeable with those produced by...
Background: The evaluation of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical phases is very important to obtain accurate, price and comparable results. Quality indicators are generally used to evaluate these processes. The present study aimed to evaluate the analytical phase...
Aim: Physical, sexual, biological, psychological and social changes occur in the adolescent period. Vitamin D is an anti-inflammatory hormone that regulates the body's calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) balance, provides bone development, contributes to the formation of the...
Objective: It has been known that bone health is ruined in patients with chronical kidney disorders. Renal osteodystrophia is a frequent complication of dialysis patients. In this sectional study we aimed to investigate the bone metabolism of patients who had undergone kidney...
Objective: Recently It's thought that Vitamin D deficiency not only adversely affects musculoskeletal system but also many other systems in our body. Since operating room staff exposed to sunlight lesser than the majority of population, we tried to show Vitamin D status of...
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