Clinical Biochemistry (eBook)

Geoffrey Beckett, Simon W. Walker, Peter Rae, Peter Ashby (Autoren)

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2011 | 8. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-31092-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Dr Geoff Beckett, Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Dr Simon Walker, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Dr Peter Rae, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Dr Peter Ashby, Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Inhalt

Title page 5
Table of Contents 7
Preface 8
List of abbreviations 9
Chapter 1: Requesting and interpreting tests 13
Chapter 2: Disturbances of water, sodium and potassium balance 27
Chapter 3: Acid–base balance and oxygen transport 47
Chapter 4: Renal disease 63
Chapter 5: Disorders of calcium, phosphate and magnesium metabolism 83
Chapter 6: Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia 102
Chapter 7: Disorders of the hypothalamus and pituitary 116
Chapter 8: Abnormalities of thyroid function 130
Chapter 9: Disorders of the adrenal cortex and medulla 145
Chapter 10: Investigation of gonadal function, infertility, menstrual irregularities and hirsutism 164
Chapter 11: Pregnancy and antenatal screening 182
Chapter 12: Cardiovascular disorders 191
Chapter 13: Liver disease 208
Chapter 14: Gastrointestinal tract disease 223
Chapter 15: Nutrition 235
Chapter 16: Trauma, inflammation, immunity and malignancy 252
Chapter 17: Disorders of iron and porphyrin metabolism 267
Chapter 18: Uric acid, gout and purine metabolism 278
Chapter 19: Central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid 286
Chapter 20: Therapeutic drug monitoring and chemical toxicology 290
Chapter 21: Clinical biochemistry in paediatrics and geriatrics 302
Self - assessment MCQs 320
Answers to MCQs 331
Appendix: Reference ranges – SI units and ‘conventional’ units 333
Index 339

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Schlagworte: Abnormalities • Adrenal • Balance • Basic Medical Sciences • biochemistry • Calcium • Central • Clinical • Cortex • Disturbances • Drug • Function • gonadal • Hypothalamus • Infertility • investigation • List • MCQs • Medical Science • Medizin • Medizinische Grundlagenfächer • Medizinische Grundlagenfächer • mellitus • Paediatrics • Pregnancy • Therapeutic • Transport • Water
• ISBN-10: 1-118-31092-6 / 1118310926
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-31092-2 / 9781118310922