Clinical Chemistry 4E provides the medical student and clinician with a practical knowledge of body chemistry and how monitoring its fluctuations are an essential part of diagnosing and monitoring disease. Over 250 colour illustrations help you to understand the basis of clinical chemistry and over 95 case studies threaded through the text bring the science into sharp clinical focus. 

 

Features: 

• Excellent illustration program is much stronger than that of any competitors 

• 95 case studies threaded through text in tinted boxes relating clinical chemistry to real patient scenarios - 5 new case studies including one on genetics 

• Over 250 two-colour illustrations 

• Laboratory adult reference ranges provided 

• Up-to-date further reading references including web site addresses

Biochemical tests in clinical medicine

Water, sodium and potassium

Hydrogen ion homoeostasis and blood gases

The kidneys

The liver

The gastrointestinal tract

The hypothalamus and the pituitary gland

The adrenal glands

The thyroid gland

The gonads

Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism

Calcium, phosphate and magnesium

Plasma proteins and enzymes

Lipids, lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease

The locomotor and nervous systems

Inherited metabolic disorders

Disorders of haemoproteins, porphyrins and iron

Metabolic aspects of malignant disease

Therapeutic drug monitoring and chemical aspects of toxicology

Clinical nutrition

Clinical chemistry at the extremes of age