Chapter 1 LABORATORY MEDICINE AN INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 GLUCOSE -- chapter 3 LIVER -- chapter 4 KIDNEY -- chapter 5 SODIUM / chapter 6 POTASSIUM -- chapter 7 ACID BASE DISORDERS -- chapter 8 HYPERTENSION -- chapter 9 CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM, AND PHOSPHATE -- chapter 10 IRON -- chapter 11 ENDOCRINE TISSUES -- chapter 12 PREGNANCY -- chapter 13 MUSCLE Cardiac, skeletal, and smooth -- chapter 14 GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT -- chapter 15 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM -- chapter 16 HEME BIOSYNTHESIS AND PORPHYRIAS -- chapter 17 URIC ACID AND PURINE METABOLISM -- chapter 18 PLASMA LIPIDS AND LIPOPROTEINS -- chapter 19 DISORDERS OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS AND COMPLEMENT -- chapter 20 TUMOR MARKERS -- chapter 21 THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING -- chapter 22 POISONS AND DRUGS OF ABUSE -- chapter 23 INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM -- chapter 24 VITAMINS, ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS, AND TRACE ELEMENTS -- chapter 25 CLINICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE ACUTELY ILL PATIENT -- . WATER --
Clinical Chemistry is a comprehensive textbook covering the area of medical science variously known as chemical pathology, clinical chemistry, medical biochemistry and clinical biochemistry. The biochemical processes and physiological interrelationships, of tissues, organs and molecules are discussed in the context of disease processes and related to the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of disease. Also included are analytical processes, such as immunoassay, and how these relate to clinical practice. Although the emphasis of this book is clinical biochemistry, some chapters include sections on haematology, radiology and microbiology where this helps in the understanding of disease processes. The increasing use of the techniques of molecular biology and genetics in the investigation of disease is acknowledged also by appropriate inclusion of these disciplines in a number of chapters. Standard International (SI) units of measurement are used throughout, but for tests where non-SI units are in common use as well as SI units both sets of units are quoted.