Clinical Biochemistry An Illustrated Colour Book


Clinical Biochemistry An Illustrated Colour book, chemical pathology and clinical chemistry are all names for the subject of this book, that branch of laboratory medicine in which chemical and biochemical methods are applied to the study of disease While in theory this embraces all nonmorphological studies, in practice it is usually, though not exclusively, confined to studies on blood and urine because of the relative ease in obtaining such specimens. Analyses are made on other body fluids, however, such as gastric aspirate and cerebrospinal fluid. Clinical biochemical tests comprise over one-third of all hospital laboratory investigations.


The book includes the following

1-The clinical biochemistry laboratory
2-The use of the laboratory
3-The interpretation of results
4-Point of care testing
5-Reference intervals
6-Fluid and electrolyte balance: Concepts and vocabulary
7-Water and sodium balance
8-Hyponatraemia: pathophysiology
9-Hyponatraemia: assessment and management
10-Hypernatraemia
11-Hyperkalaemia
12-Hypokalaemia
13-Intravenous fluid therapy
14-Investigation of renal function (1)
15-Investigation of renal function (2)
16-Urinalysis
17-Proteinuria
18-Acute renal failure
19-Chronic renal failure
20-Acid–base: concepts and vocabulary
21-Metabolic acid–base disorders
22-Respiratory and mixed acid–base disorders
23-Oxygen transport
24-Acid–base disorders: diagnosis and management
25-Proteins and enzymes
26-Immunoglobulins
27-Myocardial infarction
28-Liver function tests
29-Jaundice
30-Liver disease
31-Glucose metabolism and diabetes mellitus
32-Diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes mellitus
33-Diabetic ketoacidosis
34-Hypoglycaemia
35-Calcium regulation and hypocalcaemia
36-Hypercalcaemia
37-Phosphate and magnesium
38-Bone disease
40-Endocrine control