Abstract Objective. Identification and quantification of hemolysis in serum or plasma samples is an important requirement in laboratory diagnostics, however this is not always possible automatically and visual sample inspection is not suff…
This work was aimed at assessing whether the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, along with associated social restrictions, may have impacted the vitamin status of the general population. To this end, we reviewed all vitam…
BackgroundAcute abdominal pain (AAP) accounts for 7-10% of all Emergency Department (ED) visits. Nevertheless, the epidemiology of AAP in the ED is scarcely known. The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiology and the outcomes o…
ObjectivesTo investigate troponin I (TnI) in patients with gynecological cancers.MethodsHighly-sensitive (HS) and conventional TnI were measured in 25 patients with untreated ovarian cancer, 25 with endometriosis and 25 with benign masses.R…
AIM: Although CA125 is the most widely used cancer marker in the diagnostic approach of pelvic masses in women, its clinical usefulness is limited because it lacks expression of the antigen in the early stages of disease. The human epididym…
Usefulness of serum HE4 in endometriotic cysts