Introduction: We aim to emphasize that importance of intralaboratory preanalytical control process with describing two cases of false positive troponin level originated from fibrin gel.Cases Presentation:Troponin test performed on Beckman Coulter Access 2, CA, USA instrument...

Objective: In quantitative analysis of serum proteins turbidimetric and nephelometric methods are the most common. Aim of this study was to compare the nephelometric method with the turbidimetric method for serum and urine samples in our clinical laboratory and to analyse...

Toxicological analyses are performed to detect toxic and illegal substances and diagnose, follow up and evaluate the treatment of related disorders. Urine, serum, plasma, blood, hair, saliva, sweat, nails, stomach aspirates, and any solid or liquid in which a foreign substance is sought are used...

Objective: Alkaline phosphatases are glycoprotein structured metalophosphatases with several defined functions. The high concentrations of ALP are found in bone, liver, intestine, and the placenta and ALP serum levels increases in the pathology of these tissues. To understand...

Fanconi-Bickel Syndrome (FBS) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder which has clinical symptoms and findings of both Fanconi syndrome and glycogen storage disorders. Plasma glucose homeostasis as well as intestinal and renal monosaccharide transport are defected due to a mutation in Glut-2...

Objective: There is an increase in platelet activation in diabetics and patients with diabetic complications. Labile hemoglobin A1c (LHbA1c), an early glycation product, can turn into other glucose metabolites which can be responsible for many kinds of pathologies observed...

Aim: To determine the current median values for hormone parameters used in first trimester screening test for Kayseri province and to compare the median values with those in the software used for reporting of screening test and those detected for other regions found with...

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: 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: In this study, it was aimed to examine the changes of activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), prothrombin time (PT), and plasma fibrinogen during the day, which are the most used coagulation tests in daily routine.

Material and Methods: Blood...

Preanalytical irregularities in serum separator tubes are frequently regarded as technical artifacts. In this case, repeated failure of serum separation led to the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. A 77-year-old woman presented with chest pain and fatigue, and successive serum samples failed to form...