Scientific Calendar

What is the primary structural component responsible for the formation of the characteristic cytoplasmic projections in hairy cells?

What is the advantage of using blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease? 

What is the role of immunophenotyping in the diagnosis of PNH?

What is the role of microclots in long COVID?

How many merozoites are approximately released by one hepatic schizont?

What are the key molecular biomarkers for breast cancer classification?

How can the parameter NEUT-RI be related to neutrophil activation?

What causes the loss of high-molecular weight multimers of von Willebrand factor during ECMO?

Babesiosis is a so-called ‘vector-borne disease’. Which vector transmits Babesia protozoans?

How do ring sideroblasts store their iron?

Do you know what the risk of developing breast cancer is when one is a carrier of BRCA mutations?

I have had several UTI episodes in the past. How can diagnostics help in my case?

Which main component increases the viscosity and elasticity in synovial fluid?

How do abnormal lymphocytes react with WPC measurement channel reagents?  

What is the most common musculoskeletal stress marker measured in high-performance and elite sports to test exercise-induced muscle damage, often with the use of point-of-care testing (POCT) devices?

Which measurement channel on the XN-V analyser is used to measure the different cell types in birds?  

What are the main parameters that can be obtained from a Clot waveform analysis (CWA)?

Why could simultaneous measurement of calprotectin with CALiaGold^® and haemoglobin/occult blood with FOB Gold^® be important for a symptomatic patient?

Which scattergram delivers spurious results in the case of a haemoglobin variant?

What changes in VWF levels can be found in patients in the acute phase of an underlying chronic liver disease?

What are typical findings in the cytospin after a subarachnoid haemorrhage?  

Why is a rapid diagnosis of APL crucial for the patient?

How can you utilise LTA (light transmission aggregometry) to monitor DAPT (dual antiplatelet therapy) effectively?

How does bacterial resistance really spread?

What are the characteristics of blasts in the WPC channel after the treatment with reagents? 

Which genetic biomarker became famous in 2013 as the key decision point for Angelina Jolie to undergo a bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy?

Which measurement signal can indicate activation of neutrophils (NEUT-RI)?

Why is frequent monitoring of risk group patients for chronic kidney disease important? 

When monitoring bleeding risk in patients with haemophilia A under gene therapy, which test would you use?

Why is post-treatment surveillance for bladder cancer patients unavoidable? 

What is the likelihood that a child will inherit the sickle cell trait, if one of the parents has sickle cell disease and the other is completely unaffected?

Where in the RET channel scattergram are fragmented RBC located? 

Which APTT reagent should not be used to monitor therapy with Esperoct?

How can abnormal lymphocytes be identified using different techniques?

How can the diagnosis, staging, monitoring and outcome of NSCLC patients be improved?

What makes urinary tract infections a driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?

What could be indicators of an underlying infectious cause of pleural effusion?

Which are known factors triggering the appearance of NRBC in the peripheral blood of adults?

Which laboratory parameters are affected by caplacizumab and how?

How can accurate diagnosis and staging improve CRC patient outcome?

What is special about calprotectin measurements with CALiaGold for the differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and during the monitoring of IBD patients?

Cellular atypia in urine as an indicator of bladder cancer

For what purpose are red blood cell concentrates leucoreduced?

In which clinical conditions may patients with afibrinogenaemia develop a thromboembolic event?

How does the XN-Series indicate a potential presence of malignant cells from the WDF channel?

How can complex leukaemia transformations be easily identified?

Which parameter can help to evaluate the patient’s erythropoiesis and iron status in real time?

What does the EAU guideline recommend for the diagnosis of an uncomplicated cystitis?

Which laboratory tests must be performed to diagnose LAD-III?

Which consequence does metastatic spread to lymph nodes have on intraoperative decision-making for early-stage CeC patients?

Which concomitant findings complicate a HIT-II diagnosis with the ‘4T score’ in patients with active cancer?

Which factors are key promotors of diabetic nephropathy?

What is a common limitation of clopidogrel therapy, thereby influencing the response to the drug?

What is one of the biggest challenges in achieving elimination of hepatitis C?

Antiphospholipid syndrome as a side effect of hepatitis C?

What could contribute additionally to the existing ESA therapy to enhance the patient’s red blood cell production?

Which is one of the main pathogen species causing bacterial meningitis in adults?

How can lymph node detection and metastatic identification be facilitated in prostate cancer patients?

What are potential urinalysis findings post-surgery, for example post-prostatectomy?

How high would you estimate the lethality in patients with systemic candidiasis? 

Which haemostasis tests would you consider as an early indicator of a disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) in patients with sepsis?

Can a positive D-dimer assay indicate the presence of cancer?

How are lymph nodes marked in node-positive cancer prior to neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

Direct oral anticoagulants - always the best treatment?

Mammary carcinoma follow-up

Could IPF# serve as biomarker of poor response to antiplatelet treatment?

Albuminuria - elevated albumin levels in urine

Interested in learning more about this case of a complicated urinary tract infection (UTI)?

Neutrophil activation in the course of sepsis

Bacterial infection as trigger for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)

How can axillary staging be improved in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

Mantle cell lymphoma

Factor XIII - a factor to consider

How can you detect emerging resistance early on during lung cancer therapy?

How can fluorescence flow cytometry (FFC) support the differential diagnosis of haematuria?

How can haematological analysers help to more quickly support the diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia?

How can automated direct detection of malaria-infected red blood cells support the global fight against malaria?

When primary Sjörgen syndrome becomes very serious.

How can precision molecular diagnostics ad value to nodal staging in breast cancer?

How can haematological analysers help speed up the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis?

How can IPF help in the differential diagnosis of thrombocytopenia?

Has haemophilia A treatment entered the 21st century?

How can surgeons accurately target the removal of early-stage cancer?

How can flouresence flow cytometry  (FFC) identify dysmorphic RBC?

Could IPF serve as biomarker for adverse cardiovascular events after surgery?

What would you typically observe with a haematology analyser’s results during an acute bacterial infection before the onset of anaemia?

Why is Burkitt lymphoma so aggressive? How do you best detect it?

Which platelet-related indications would typically be seen on a haematology analyser during early response to severe viraemia?

Bacteriuria: Why is dipstick screening for nitrite not sufficient to identify a UTI? How can sensitivity be improved?

How do leucocytes cross the blood-brain barrier to fight infections in the central nervous system?

Parasites in urine: How do they get there and how can we detect them?

How can a haematology analyser say something about cell function?

How can clot degradation products (D-dimer) be an indicator of bacterial infection?

How can a haematology analyser characterise different stages of a bacterial infection?

Why has the lymph node status such an impact on cancer prognosis?

Which lab parameters could be useful in assessment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in septic patients?

Why does the HI-virus cause such a strong clinical effect?

Crystals in urine

Identifying cells and malign degenerations

Anti-platelet drugs mechanism

Hyaline casts in urine

Magnetic localisation of sentinel nodes

Understanding the apoptotic process

Molecular detection of marker genes

Bacteria in urine

Activated platelets – ‘The white clot’

Scalp cooling saves hair follicles during chemotherapy

Want to know how to assess the engagement of white blood cells during an inflammatory process?

Emulsion PCR for highly sensitive detection of tumour mutations in peripheral blood