Clinical biochemistry : metabolic and clinical aspects /
edited by William J. Marshall, Marta Lapsley, Andrew P. Day and Ruth M. Ayling.
- Third edition.
- x, 932 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uses of biochemical data in clinical medicine -- Acquisition and interpretation of biochemical data -- Quality aspects of laboratory medicine -- Sodium, water and potassium -- Hydrogen ion homoeostasis and tissue oxygenation and their disorders -- Calcium, phosphate and magnesium -- The kidneys, renal function,and kidney disease -- Proteinuria -- Renal tubular disorders and renal stone disease -- Clinical biochemistry of nutrition -- Nutritional disorders and their management - Clinical biochemistry of the gastrointestinal tract -- Assessment of hepatic function and investigation of jaundice -- Acute and chronic liver disease -- Glucose metabolism and the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus -- The clinical management of diabetes mellitus -- Hypoglycaemia -- Hypothalamicv, pituitary and adrenal disorders -- Thyroid dysfunction -- Metabolic response to stress -- Disorders of puberty and sex development -- Reproductive function in the female -- Reproductive function in the male -- Inherited metabolic disease -- Paediatric clinical biochemistry -- Introduction to haematology and transfusion science -- Biochemical aspects of anaemia -- The porphyrias: inherited disorder of haemsynthesis -- The haemoglobinopathies -- Immunology for clinical biochemists -- Metabolic bone disease -- Biochemistry of articular disorders -- Muscle disease -- Investigation of cerebrospinal fluid -- Biochemical aspects of psychiatric disorders -- Biochemical aspects of neurological disease -- Lipids and disorders of lipoprotein metabolism -- Clinical biochemistry of the cardiovascular system -- Therapeutic drug monitoring -- Poisoning -- Metabolic effects of tumours -- Tumour markers -- Molecular clinical biochemistry -- Forensic biochemistry.