Clinical chemistry
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Clinical chemistry
Mosby, 2000
4th ed
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Clinical Chemistry 4E provides the medical student and clinician with a practical knowledge of body chemistry and how monitoring its fluctuations are an essential part of diagnosing and monitoring disease. Over 250 colour illustrations help you to understand the basis of clinical chemistry and over 95 case studies threaded through the text bring the science into sharp clinical focus. Features: * Excellent illustration program is much stronger than that of any competitors * 95 case studies threaded through text in tinted boxes relating clinical chemistry to real patient scenarios - 5 new case studies including one on genetics * Over 250 two-colour illustrations * Laboratory adult reference ranges provided * Up-to-date further reading references including web site addresses
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Biochemical tests in clinical medicine Chapter 2 Water, sodium and potassium Chapter 3 Hydrogen ion homeostasis and blood gases Chapter 4 The kidneys Chapter 5 The liver Chapter 6 The gastrointestinal tract Chapter 7 The hypothalamus and pituitary gland Chapter 8 The adrenal glands Chapter 9 The thyroid gland Chapter 10 The gonads Chapter 11 The musculoskeletal system and CNS Chapter 12 Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism Chapter 13 Calcium, phosphate, magnesium Chapter 14 Specific plasma proteins Chapter 15 Lipids and lipoproteins Chapter 16 Inherited metabolic diseases Chapter 17 Haemoproteins, porphyrins and iron Chapter 18 Hyperuricaemia and gout Chapter 19 Metabolic aspects of malignant disease Chapter 20 Therapeutic drug monitoring and chemical aspects of toxicology Chapter 21 Clinical nutrition Chapter 22 Clinical chemistry at the extremes of age
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