Clinical biochemistry : metabolic and clinical aspects /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2008. |
| Description: | xi, 984 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7633940 |
Table of Contents:
- The uses of biochemical data in clinical medicine
- The acquisition of biochemical data
- The interpretation of biochemical data
- Sodium, water and potassium
- Hydrogen ion homoeostasis, tissue oxygenation and their disorders
- Calcium, phosphate and magnesium
- The kidneys, renal function and renal failure
- Proteinuria
- Renal tubular disorders and renal stone disease
- The clinical biochemistry of nutrition
- Nutritional disorders and their management
- The clinical biochemistry of the gastrointestinal tract
- The assessment of hepatic function and investigation of jaundice
- Acute and chronic liver disease
- Diabetes mellitus: pathophysiology and biochemical background
- The clinical management of diabetes mellitus
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypothalamic, pituitary and adrenal disorders
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Hormonal aspects of non-endocrine disease
- Abnormal sexual development
- The clinical biochemistry of female reproductive function, including pregnancy, oral contraception and hormone replacement therapy
- Reproductive function in the male
- Inherited metabolic disease
- Paediatric clinical biochemistry
- Biochemical aspects of anaemia
- The porthyrias and disorders of haem synthesis
- The haemoglobulinopathies
- Immunology for clinical biochemists
- Metabolic bone disease
- Biochemical aspects of articular disease
- Muscle disease
- Investigation of cerebrospinal fluid
- Biochemical aspects of psychiatric disorders
- Biochemical aspects of neurological disease
- Biochemical aspects of mental retardation
- Lipid metabolism, hyper- and hypo-lipidaemias
- The clinical biochemistry of the cardiovascular system
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Poisoning
- Metabolic effects of tumours
- Tumour markers
- Molecular clinical biochemistry
- Free radicals
