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Measurement of thiopurine methyl transferase activity guides dose-initiation and prevents toxicity from azathioprineChristiaan Sies
Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand
N Z Med J 118:U1324. 2005....
Clinical indications for the investigation of porphyria: case examples and evolving laboratory approaches to its diagnosis in New ZealandChristiaan Sies
Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand
N Z Med J 118:U1658. 2005..Accurate screening and diagnosis of porphyria is important, as an acute porphyric attack is life-threatening and preventable. Retrospective diagnosis may be difficult...
Urinary VMA, dopamine and the likelihood of neuroblastoma: a preferred way of reporting laboratory results?C W Sies
Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, PO Box 151, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ann Clin Biochem 43:300-5. 2006..We therefore evaluated the utility of positive likelihood ratios (LR+) based on data from patients in whom the diagnosis was suspected...
Quartz renal calculi: were we being led up the garden path?C W Sies
Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ann Clin Biochem 44:312-4. 2007..This case highlights the usefulness of XRD in the differentiation of authentic from possibly factitious renal calculi...
Uncertainty of sweat chloride testing: does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?R J MacKay
Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, PO Box 151, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Ann Clin Biochem 45:535-8. 2008..This has important implications for reporting...
Dual porphyria with mutations in both the UROD and HMBS genesJames R Harraway
Molecular Pathology, Canterbury Health Laboratories, P O Box 151, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ann Clin Biochem 43:80-2. 2006..Sequencing of the hydroxymethylbilane synthase and uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase genes confirmed the relatively rare diagnosis of dual porphyria, and revealed a novel uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase mutation...
