background : aneuploidy is one of the main causes of congenital anomalies, mental and physical disabilities, in new-borns. the aim of this study was to determine various chromosomal aneuploidies in the first and second trimester screening of pregnant women, in iran. methods : a descriptive retrospective study was conducted on 125,170 pregnant women referred to a major referral medical diagnosti...

Laboratory Medicine as a profession and clinical science – how to perform both of them well? Laboratory diagnostics is the medical discipline devoted to obtain, explore and employ knowledge about using various techniques for the analysis of body fluids composition and properties of cells and tissues, and interpretation of the results in relation to health and disease. It should be stressed that...

Advances in medical laboratory technology have driven major changes in the practice of laboratory medicine over the past two decades by the development of automated, cross-disciplinary single platform analysers. This has led to the blurring of boundaries between traditional disciplines and the emergence of core automated or blood science laboratories. This paper was commissioned by the Union of...

Several microangiopathic disorders that are encountered during pregnancy provide physicians with a formidable diagnostic challenge. Severe pre-eclampsia with hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP) syndrome and many other obstetric and medical or surgical conditions produce similar clinical presentations and laboratory study results to pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is freque...

The current article examines the modern practices of reducing errors in medical laboratories. The paper sought to examine the methods that different countries are applying to reduce errors in medical laboratories. In addition, the paper examines the relationship between inadequate training of laboratory personnel and error causation in medical laboratories. A total of 17 research articles have ...

Polymorphisms Influence the Late Inflammatory Response in Human Endotoxemia, Claudia Marsik, Bernd Jilma, Christian Joukhadar, Christine Mannhalter, Oswald Wagner, and Georg Endler ( Department of Clinical Pharmacology and 2 Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostic, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; * address correspondence to this author at: Department of Clinical P...

1Boris Brkljačić, MD, Professor of Radiology. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital “Dubrava”, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. 2Sergio Castellani, Department of Medical and Surgical Critical Care A.O.U. Careggi, associate professor in cardiovascular diseases, chair of angiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. 3Colin Deane, Ph...

Filip Szczepankiewicz, Samo Lasic, Jimmy Lätt, Danielle van Westen, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Freddy Ståhlberg, Daniel Topgaard, and Markus Nilsson Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, CR Development, AB, Lund, Sweden, Center for Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Skane University Hospital, L...