The Malaysian Journal of Pathology
The Official Journal of the College of Pathologists, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM)

Current Issue: Volume 29 (Supplement A) 2007

Journal Volume 29 (Supplement A) 2007

ISSN 0126-8635

Contents

Keynote lecture:
- The impact of monoclonal antibodies on diagnosis and therapy
Plenary lecture 1:
- Biology and diagnostic applications of plasma nucleic acids
Plenary lecture 2:
- Systematic approach to diagnosing prostate cancer
Plenary lecture 3:
- Cybernetics of cytokines and chemokines: pathophysiology and clinical applications
Plenary lecture 4:
- The history of CAMPATH-1 antibody
Special lecture:
- Meeting the challenges of globalisation and miniaturization
Presidential Symposium:
- New models for laboratory testing in a global environment
- Pathology workforce crisis and training
- Laboratory ethics
Symposium 1A: Current updates on laboratory management
- Reconstruction of the clinical laboratory – extended service to clinical medicine
- Total laboratory automation – pros and cons
- The role of the clinical pathologist in supporting clinical decisions
Symposium 1B: New developments in myeloma management
- Pathogenesis of myeloma – insights from dtZ trial
- New and relevant investigations for diagnosis and monitoring in myeloma
- Are newer agents for myeloma treatment curative?
Symposium 1C: New paradigms in anti-infective therapy
- RNA Interference – The role of siRNAs as alternative therapeutic agents
- Nanotechnology in early disease detection and diagnostics
- Turning the tables on quorum sensing – autoinducers of quorum sensing as targets for infection control
Symposium 1D: Diagnostic challenges in urogenital pathology
- Mimickers of high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN)
- Testicular tumours
Symposium 1E: Managing mass disasters
- Identification and repatriation
- Mass grave investigations
- Global cooperation in mass disasters
Symposium 2A: Technological advances
- Lean Six Sigma in laboratory service
- Lab optimization via automation
- Tumor chemosensitivity and chemoresistance assays
Symposium 2B: Recent advances in blood cancers
- The diagnosis and treatment of natural killer cell malignancies
- The bone marrow differential count: uncertainties and unknowns
- How curable is the low grade indolent lymphoma?
Symposium 2C: Metagenomics
- Metagenomics: discovering microbial diversity
- Metagenomics: mining novel genes
- Lab-on-Chips
Symposium 2D: Problem areas in surgical pathology
- Diagnostic issues in gastrointestinal pathology
- Classification of and approach to interstitial lung disease
- Placental Pathology
Symposium 2E: Forensic autopsy
- MRI/CT assisted autopsy
- The modern approach to the negative autopsy
- Death in healthcare and forensic pathology
Symposium 3A: Inflammatory markers
- Inflammatory markers and cardiovascular diseases – bystanders or culprits?
- Clara cell 10 kDa protein as an anti-inflammatory marker
- Inflammatory markers and cancers
Symposium 3B: Risk management in myeloproliferative disorders
- How useful is the WHO Classification of the myelodysplastic syndromes
- Thrombosis risk in the chronic myeloproliferative disorders
- Overcoming blast crisis in chronic myeloid leukaemia – have we been successful?
Symposium 3C: Importance of information technology in infectious diseases
- Microarray gene expression analysis
- Bioinformatics analysis in the diagnosis and management of human genetic diseases - challenges and opportunities
Symposium 3D: Surgical pathology of the liver
- Clinico-morphological patterns of hepatitis
- Paediatric liver diseases: histopathologic patterns on liver biopsies
- Reporting liver biopsies: an algorithmic approach
Symposium 3E: Clinical forensics
- The role of molecular methods in crime scene investigation
- Investigation of rape
- Criminal abortion?
Symposium 4A: Diabetes Mellitus
- Studies on medicinal plants useful in diabetes mellitus and diseases associated with elevated lipids
- Global standardisation of HbA_1c: What can we expect?
- Autoimmunity in Diabetes mellitus
Symposium 4B: New treatment strategies
- Monoclonal antibodies to harness tolerance processes in transplantation and autoimmunity
- Arsenic trioxide in cancer therapy
- Potential of mesenchymal stem cells in cell-based therapy
Symposium 4C: Emerging viral diseases
- The story of Nipah virus
- Avian Influenza
- Laboratory medicine of SARS
Symposium 4D: Advances in breast cancer
- Pathological assessment for targeted therapy
- In situ breast carcinoma
- Telomerase in breast cancer
Symposium 4E: Quality Assurance Symposium
- Developments in Quality Assurance – meeting new challenges
- Quality assurance in microbiology
- Virtual microscopy – Its use in diagnostic proficiency testing in Anatomical Pathology and its potential in other disciplines
Symposium 5A: Metabolic syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome: its significance and application in clinical practice
- Modification of HDL – Implication in cardiovascular disease
- Body fat distribution – its link with diabetes and metabolic syndrome
Symposium 5B: Molecular genetics
- Between genotype and phenotype: genetic modifiers in beta Thalassemia
- Polymorphisms in hepatic lipase – a new biomarker?
- Genetic polymorphism of warfarin resistance
Symposium 5C: Symposium on Tuberculosis
- MDR tuberculosis in Indonesia: Importance for standardization before XDR widespread
- Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Indonesia: A predominance of Beijing genotype strains and its clinical significance
- Rapid tuberculosis diagnostic test developed in the Department of Clinical Pathology, Dr Soeotmo Hospital, Surabaya
Symposium 5D: Cervical cytology
- Quality issues in cervical cancer screening
- Glandular lesions of the cervix
- Atypical squamous cells in cervical smears – issues and controversies
Symposium 5E: Transplant pathology
- Liver transplant pathology: causes of late allograft dysfunction
- Liver transplantation and new therapeutic approaches for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP)
- Neuropathology of bone marrow transplantation
Symposium 6A: Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Quality control of therapeutic drug monitoring
- Therapeutic drug monitoring of antiretroviral drugs
- Immunosuppressive drug monitoring
Symposium 6B: Old problems, new solutions in Haematology
- Molecular diagnosis of haemoglobin disorders
- Non-myeloablative cord blood transplantation in adults
- Cellular molecular imaging - the way forward
Symposium 6C: Molecular diagnosis of viral disorders
- Molecular diagnosis of viral disorders: HIV
- Hepatitis C
- Review on Hepatitis B and chronic Hepatitis B
Symposium 6D: Current issues in fine needle aspiration cytology
- FNA of liver: diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
- FNA of lymph node: Is it good enough for diagnosis of lymphomas?
- FNA of the breast: Do we still need core needle biopsies for diagnosis of breast cancers?
Symposium 6E: Education and research for pathologists
- Appraising the literature: can we believe what we read?
- Molecular diagnosis: strengths and pitfalls
- Research for surgical pathologists
Lunch Symposium 1: Bricks, Tools, Chips, Brains for the modernisation of Laboratory Medicine in Italy and Europe
- Downsizing and modernization of Laboratory Medicine in Italy and SIMeL
- Information technology, LIS and HIS: A never ending story
- An electronic thesaurus of EBLM diagnostic tests
- Pathology education and research in Germany
Lunch Symposium 2: Strategic planning and budgeting for pathology laboratories
- Strategic planning for a pathology laboratory
- Budgets and the budgeting process: What the pathologists need to know
- Assessing productivity and efficiency in the clinical laboratory: Understanding the basic tools
- Resolving conflict in the pathology laboratory
Lunch Symposium 3: Update in cardiac pathology
- Pathology of the cardiomyopathies
- The autopsy approach to sudden cardiac death
- An approach to interpretation of endomyocardial biopsies
Poster abstracts
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Index of speakers and presenters
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