AACC Clinical Chemistry Trainee Council

    Introductory letter

  Clinical Chemistry Trainee Council

 State-of-the-Art Lectures

C-Reactive Protein:New Applications:
Dr Job Ubbink, D.Sc (Pret), MRCPath (Lond) Consultant: Chemical Pathology

The Multirule Interpretation:
Prof Rhena Delport, PhD (Pret) Lecturer Chemical Pathology

Method Comparison:
Prof Rhena Delport, PhD (Pret) Lecturer Chemical Pathology

Adiponectin:
Prof RT Erasmus.Department of Chemical Pathology, Tygerberg Hospital,University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg

 AACC Clinical Chemistry Journal Club

False-Negative Results in Point-of-Care Qualitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Devices Due to Excess hCGß Core Fragment
by Ann M. Gronowski, Mark Cervinski, Ulf-Håkan Stenman, Alison Woodworth, Lori Ashby, and Mitchell G. Scott

Maternal Plasma DNA Analysis Using Massively Parallel Sequencing-By-Ligation for Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Trisomy 21
by R. W.K. Chiu, H. Sun, R. Akolekar, C. Clouser, C. Lee, K. Mckernan, D. Zhou, K. H. Nicolaides, and Y. M. Dennis Lo

LOX Index, a Novel Predictive Biochemical Marker for Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke
by N. Inoue, T. Okamura, Y. Kokubo, Y. Fujita, Y. Sato, M. Nakanishi, K. Yanagida, A. Kakino, S. Iwamoto, M. Watanabe, S. Ogura, K. Otsui, H. Matsuda, K. Uchida, R. Yoshimoto, and T. Sawamura.

Selected Reaction Monitoring–Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay Responsive to Parathyroid Hormone and Related Variants
by M.F. Lopez, T. Rezai, D. A. Sarracino, A. Prakash, B. Krastins, M. Athanas, R.J. Singh, D.R. Barnidge, P. Oran, C. Borges, and R.W. Nelson

Enrichment and Detection of Rare Alleles by Means of Snapback Primers and Rapid-Cycle PCR
by L. Zhou, R.A. Palais, G.D. Smith, D. Anderson, L.R. Rowe, and C.T. Wittwer

γ' Fibrinogen: Evaluation of a New Assay for Study of Associations with Cardiovascular Disease
by R.S. Lovely, S.C. Kazmierczak, J.M. Massaro, R.B. D'Agostino, Sr., C.J. O'Donnell, and D.H. Farrell

Quantification of Galactose-1-Phosphate Uridyltransferase Enzyme Activity by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry
by Y. Li, A.S. Ptolemy, L. Harmonay, M. Kellogg, and G.T. Berry

Seven Direct Methods for Measuring HDL and LDL Cholesterol Compared with Ultracentrifugation Reference Measurement Procedures
by W. Greg Miller, G. L. Myers, I. Sakurabayashi, L. M. Bachmann, S. P. Caudill, A. Dziekonski, S. Edwards, M. M. Kimberly, W. J. Korzun, E. T. Leary, K. Nakajima, M. Nakamura, G. Nilsson, R. D. Shamburek, G. W. Vetrovec,G. R. Warnick, and A. T. Remaley

 Clinical Case Studies

Joely A. Straseski, Andrew Stolbach, and William Clarke
Opiate-Positive Immunoassay Screen in a Pediatric Patient
Clin Chem 2010 56: 1220-1223.
www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/56/8/1220

Stacey A.A. Honda et al
A Healthy Young Man Presenting with Multiple Rib Fractures
for Clin Chem 2010 September issue
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Vinay S. Mahajan, Christine A. Pace, and Petr Jarolim
Interpretation of HIV Serologic Testing Results
for Clin Chem 2010 October issue
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 Presentation

 EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT (EQA) REPORTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
Dr Jocelyn Naicker
National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and University of the Witwatersrand
SAACB Education Day 2010