Instructions on appropriate fasting prior to phlebotomy; effects on patient awareness, preparation, and biochemical parameters

Autor: Nélia S.V. Andrade, Sinead N. Curtin, Ashiq Masih, Brid Fitzgibbon, Katie Herbert, Mary Gowen, Margaret Lehane, Seán J. Costelloe

Publikováno v: Diagnosis. 10:175-182

Objectives This study investigated the effect of appropriate pre-phlebotomy instructions on patients’ awareness of the need to fast, their fasting status at phlebotomy, and the measurement of specific biochemical analytes and indices. Methods While

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https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2022-0131

Factors associated with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in patients attending an acute hospital ambulatory assessment unit

Autor: Jennifer Carroll, Julio Chevarria, John Campion, Catriona O Leary, Sarah McAleer, Joseph Ryan, Ros Lavery, Siun O'Flynn, P J O'Donoghue, Seán J Costelloe, Corinna Sadlier, Lakshman Kumar, Jenny Lynch, Mary Davey, Sean Manning, Jayne Shanahan, Geoffrey Ronan, Ciara McGlade, Aine Daly, Patrick Barry

Publikováno v: Journal of Medical Virology

To describe the factors associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection in mild‐to‐moderate patients attending for assessment. This observational study was conducted in a Model 4 tertiary referral center

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8251204

Case report of spuriously low sodium and calcium in a 36-year-old male in primary care

Autor: Marguerite O'Connell, Kelly McCarthy, Seán J Costelloe, Mark Butler

Publikováno v: Biochemia Medica
Volume 30
Issue 2

An unseparated serum specimen for a 36-year-old male was received from primary care. The specimen arrived in the laboratory at Cork University Hospital one day after collection, as documented on the paper request card, and was promptly centrifuged. A

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https://doi.org/10.11613/bm.2020.021001

A 24-Hour Study of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary Axes in Huntington's Disease.

Autor: Eirini Kalliolia, Edina Silajdžić, Rajasree Nambron, Seán J Costelloe, Nicholas G Martin, Nathan R Hill, Chris Frost, Hilary C Watt, Peter Hindmarsh, Maria Björkqvist, Thomas T Warner

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 10, p e0138848 (2015)

Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterised by motor, cognitive and psychiatric disturbances. Patients exhibit other symptoms including sleep and mood disturbances, muscle atrophy and weight loss which may be linked

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The CRESS checklist for reporting stability studies: on behalf of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group for the Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE)

Autor: Michael P Cornes, Geoffrey S. Baird, Ana-Maria Simundic, Janne Cadamuro, Seán J Costelloe, Alexander von Meyer, Mads Nybo, Gunn B.B. Kristensen, Rubén Gómez Rioja

Publikováno v: Cornes, M, Simundic, A-M, Cadamuro, J, Costelloe, S J, Baird, G, Kristensen, G B B, von Meyer, A, Nybo, M & Gómez Rioja, R 2021, ' The CRESS checklist for reporting stability studies : on behalf of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group for the Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE) ', Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 59-69 . https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2020-0061

To ensure that clinical laboratories produce results that are both accurate and of clinical utility it is essential that only samples of adequate quality are analysed. Although various studies and databases assessing the stability of analytes in diff

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https://www.bib.irb.hr/1091000