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Clinical Biochemistry
Geoffrey Beckett, Simon W. Walker, Peter Rae, Peter Ashby
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Clinical Biochemistry
Geoffrey Beckett, Simon W. Walker, Peter Rae, Peter Ashby
About This Book
The new edition of the best-selling Lecture Notes title is a concise introduction to clinical biochemistry that presents the fundamental science underpinning common biochemical investigations used in clinical practice.
Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry allows the reader to make efficient and informed use of the diagnostic services offered by their clinical biochemistry department. The result is a text that serves as a reference to the practitioner as well as the student. The book takes a system-based approach, with the underlying physiological rationale for any test explained in the context of disruption by disease. This leads naturally to an integrated and practical understanding of biochemical diagnostics.
Including multiple choice questions (MCQs) alongside end-of-chapter case studies to help develop test-selection skills, Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry provides the essential background to biochemical investigations and is an ideal course companion and revision guide for medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, general practitioners, and nurses and laboratory technicians.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Requesting and Interpreting Tests
- Chapter 2: Disturbances of Water, Sodium and Potassium Balance
- Chapter 3: AcidâBase Balance and Oxygen Transport
- Chapter 4: Renal Disease
- Chapter 5: Disorders of Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium Metabolism
- Chapter 6: Diabetes Mellitus and Hypoglycaemia
- Chapter 7: Disorders of the Hypothalamus and Pituitary
- Chapter 8: Abnormalities of Thyroid Function
- Chapter 9: Disorders of the Adrenal Cortex and Medulla
- Chapter 10: Investigation of Gonadal Function, Infertility, Menstrual Irregularities and Hirsutism
- Chapter 11: Pregnancy and Antenatal Screening
- Chapter 12: Cardiovascular Disorders
- Chapter 13: Liver Disease
- Chapter 14: Gastrointestinal Tract Disease
- Chapter 15: Nutrition
- Chapter 16: Trauma, Inflammation, Immunity and Malignancy
- Chapter 17: Disorders of Iron and Porphyrin Metabolism
- Chapter 18: Uric Acid, Gout and Purine Metabolism
- Chapter 19: Central Nervous System and Cerebrospinal Fluid
- Chapter 20: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Chemical Toxicology
- Chapter 21: Clinical Biochemistry in Paediatrics and Geriatrics
- Self-assessment MCQs
- Answers to MCQs
- Appendix: Reference ranges â SI units and âconventionalâ units
- Index