Comprehensive laboratory reference intervals for routine biochemical markers and pro‐oxidant‐antioxidant balance (PAB) in male adults

Laboratory Reference Intervals in Africa

Pediatric Reference Intervals for Biochemical Markers: Gaps and Challenges, Recent National Initiatives and Future Perspectives

Reference intervals provide valuable information to medical practitioners in their interpretation of quantitative laboratory test results, and are critical in the assessment of patient health and in clinical decision-making. The reference interval serves as a health-associated benchmark with which to compare an individual test result. While the concept of reference intervals and their utility a...

Development of human renal function: reference intervals for 10 biochemical markers in fetal urine.

Evaluation of fetal renal function by analysis of fetal urine sampled in utero may improve perinatal care after a prenatal diagnosis of bilateral obstructive uropathy. We provide reference intervals for 10 fetal urinary compounds and examine their variation with gestational age. Forty-one fetuses with bilateral obstructive uropathy (urine sampled between 20 and 38 weeks of gestational age) had ...

Hematologic and biochemical reference intervals for Spanish ibex.

We studied blood samples from 529 Spanish ibexes (Capra pyrenaica) from different Andalusian mountain ranges in southern Spain, primarily from Sierra Nevada. For each sample, 13 hematologic and 32 biochemical parameters were analyzed. Within this database, we selected values obtained from live, free-ranging, physically restrained, clinically normal animals to determine reference intervals for t...

eJIFCC Special Issue on Laboratory Reference Intervals

Recent decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of new diagnostic methods and the introduction of many emerging new biomarkers in clinical diagnostic laboratories. The utility of biomarkers as screening and diagnostic tools is limited by many factors, such as sensitivity, specificity and predictive values. Another critical factor, not always carefully considered, is the availa...