
Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry
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Key Features
- Includes enhanced illustration and new and revised color figures
- Provides improved self-assessment questions and end-of-chapter assessment questions
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Table of Contents
1. Preanalytical Variation
2. Statistical Methods in Laboratory Medicine
3. Reference Intervals: Theory and Practice
4. Method Validation: Finding (and Fixing) the Error of Our Testing Ways
5. Quality Control
6. Laboratory Calculations
7. Spectrophotometry
8. Chromatography and Electrophoresis
9. Electrochemistry
10. Mass Spectrometry
11. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technology and Clinical Applications
12. Immunoassays
13. Nucleic Acid Probes Used in the Analysis of DNA
14. The Polymerase Chain Reaction
15. Laboratory Automation
16. Regulatory Issues
17. Principles of Laboratory Management
18. Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine
19. Harmonization of Results Among Laboratories
20. Laboratory Information Systems
21. Point-of-Care Testing
22. Proteins: Analysis and Interpretation in Serum, Urine, and Cerebrospinal Fluid
23. Hemoglobin Variant Detection
24. Hemostasis: The View from the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory
25. Laboratory Diagnosis of Lipid and Lipoprotein Disorders
26. Biomarkers for Acute Cardiovascular Diseases and Heart Failure
27. Laboratory Diagnosis of Liver Disease
28. Clinical Chemistry of the Gastrointestinal Disorders
29. Evaluation of Exocrine Pancreatic Function
30. Carbohydrate Disorders
31. Laboratory Evaluation of Kidney Function
32. Blood Gas and Critical Care Testing
33. Water and Electrolyte Balance
34. Urinalysis
35. Disorders of the Anterior and Posterior Pituitary
36. Laboratory Evaluation of Thyroid Function
37. Disorders of the Adrenal Cortex and Medulla
38. Laboratory Testing in Pregnancy and Reproductive Disorders
39. Tumor Markers
40. Calcium Biology and Disorders
41. Vitamins and Trace Elements: Functions and Assessment of Status through Laboratory Testing
42. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
43. The Porphyrias: Fundamentals and Laboratory Assessment
44. Pharmacokinetics for the Practicing Clinical Chemist
45. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
46. Toxicology and the Clinical Laboratory
47. Pharmacogenetics
48. Applications of Molecular Techniques in the Clinical Laboratory
49. Infectious Disease
50. Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
51. Diagnostic Body Fluid Testing
Product details
- No. of pages: 1064
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: June 8, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128158333
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128154991
About the Editors
William Clarke
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Mark Marzinke
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