Dr Carel Pretorius
Journal Articles
Sharwood, Erin F., Hughes, Ian P., Pretorius, Carel J., Trnka, Peter, Peake, Jane and Huynh, Tony (2017) Therapeutic plasma exchange normalizes insulin-mediated response in a child with type 1 diabetes and insulin autoimmune syndrome. Pediatric Diabetes, . doi:10.1111/pedi.12522
Pretorius, Carel J., Reade, Michael C., Warnholtz, Chris, McWhinney, Brett, Phua, Meng Mei, Lipman, Jeffrey and Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. (2017) Pyroglutamate (5-oxoproline) measured with hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) tandem mass spectrometry in acutely ill patients. Clinica Chimica Acta, 466 72-77. doi:10.1016/j.cca.2017.01.012
Pretorius, Carel J. and Ungerer, Jacobus P.J. (2016) Improved diagnostic performance of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays is an artifact of censored data. Clinical Chemistry, 62 12: 1654-1657. doi:10.1373/clinchem.2016.262634
Ungerer, Jacobus Petrus Johannes, Tate, Jillian Russyll and Pretorius, Carel Jacobus (2016) Discordance with 3 cardiac troponin i and T assays: implications for the 99th percentile cutoff. Clinical Chemistry, 62 8: 1106-1114. doi:10.1373/clinchem.2016.255281
Cohen, Jeremy, Pretorius, Carel J., Ungerer, Jacobus P. J., Cardinal, John, Blumenthal, Antje, Presneill, Jeff, Gatica-Andrades, Marcela, Jarrett, Paul, Lassig-Smith, Melissa, Stuart, Janine, Dunlop, Rachel, Starr, Therese and Venkatesh, Bala (2016) Glucocorticoid sensitivity is highly variable in critically ill patients with septic shock and is associated with disease severity. Critical Care Medicine, 44 6: 1034-1041. doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001633
Pretorius, Carel J. (2016) Screening immunofixation should replace protein electrophoresis as the initial investigation of monoclonal gammopathy: point. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 54 6: 963-966. doi:10.1515/cclm-2015-0699
Wilgen, Urs, Pretorius, Carel J., Gould, Michael J. and Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. (2016) Cardiac troponin I carryover by very high patient samples still causes false-positive results on the Beckman Coulter AccuTnI + 3. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 53 1: 177-179. doi:10.1177/0004563215606739
Fagan, Kevin J., Pretorius, Carel J., Horsfall, Leigh U., Irvine, Katharine M., Wilgen, Urs, Choi, Kihoon, Fletcher, Linda M., Tate, Jill, Melino, Michelle, Nusrat, Sharmin, Miller, Gregory C., Clouston, Andrew D., Ballard, Emma, O'Rourke, Peter, Lampe, Guy, Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. and Powell, Elizabeth E. (2015) ELF score ≥9.8 indicates advanced hepatic fibrosis and is influenced by age, steatosis and histological activity. Liver International, 35 6: 1673-1681. doi:10.1111/liv.12760
Wilgen, Urs, Pretorius, Carel J., Gous, Rehna S., Martin, Cameron, Hale, Vincent J. and Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. (2014) Hook effect in Abbott i-STAT beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) point of care assay. Clinical Biochemistry, 47 13-14: 1320-1322. doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2014.05.005
Jenner, Wessel, Klingberg, Sandra, Tate, Jill R., Wilgen, Urs, Ungerer, Jacobus P.J. and Pretorius, Carel J. (2014) Combined light chain immunofixation to detect monoclonal gammopathy: a comparison to standard electrophoresis in serum and urine. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 52 7: 981-987. doi:10.1515/cclm-2014-0023
Wilgen, Urs, Pretorius, Carel J. and Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. (2013) Improved sensitivity of point of care troponin I values using reporting to below 99th percentile of normals. Schneider HG et al.. Clinical Biochemistry, 46 16-17: 1774-1775. doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2013.06.027
Conference Paper
Ruddell, Richard G., Burgess, Christopher, Huynh, Tony, Conwell, Louise S., Balouch, Fariha, Burke, Matthew and Pretorius, Carel (2017). Idiopathic Ductopaenia in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report and Interesting Clinical Biochemistry. In: Royal College of Pathology Australia Update, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (). 24 – 26 February 2017.