Martin Crook

Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A readable textbook that not only explains the biochemical underpinnings of metabolic medicine but also integrates laboratory findings with clinical practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 8 ed
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 212mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1132g
• ISBN-13: 9781444144147
• ISBN-10: 1444144146
• Artikelnr.: 34673422

Autorenporträt

Professor Martin Andrew Crook, Consultant in Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Medicine, Guy's, St Thomas' and University Hospital Lewisham and Visiting Professor, School of Science, University of Greenwich, London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Requesting laboratory tests and interpreting the results. Water and sodium.
The kidneys. Acid-base disturbances. Potassium. Calcium, phosphate and
magnesium. The hypothalamus and pituitary gland. The adrenal cortex. The
reproductive system. Pregnancy and infertility. Thyroid function.
Carbohydrate metabolism. Plasma lipids and lipoproteins. Nutrition.
Vitamins, trace elements and metals. The gastrointestinal tract. Liver
disorders and gallstones. Plasma enzymes in diagnosis (clinical
enzymology). Proteins in plasma and urine. Purine and urate metabolism.
Disorders of haem metabolism: iron and the porphyrias. Cardiovascular
disease. Cerebrospinal and pleural fluid. Metabolic effects of tumours.
Therapeutic drug monitoring and poisoning. Clinical biochemistry at the
extremes of age. Inborn errors of metabolism. Genetics and DNA-based
technology in clinical biochemistry. Patient sample collection and use of
the laboratory. Point of care testing. Appendix 1 Units in clinical
chemistry.