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Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry

  • 4th Edition - June 8, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: William Clarke, Mark Marzinke
  • Language: English

Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, Fourth Edition, provides a clear and concise overview of important topics in the field. This new edition is useful for students,… Read more

Description

Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, Fourth Edition, provides a clear and concise overview of important topics in the field. This new edition is useful for students, residents and fellows in clinical chemistry and pathology, presenting an introduction and overview of the field to assist readers as they in review and prepare for board certification examinations. For new medical technologists, the book provides context for understanding the clinical utility of tests that they perform or use in other areas in the clinical laboratory. For experienced laboratorians, this revision continues to provide an opportunity for exposure to more recent trends and developments in clinical chemistry.

Key features

  • Includes enhanced illustration and new and revised color figures
  • Provides improved self-assessment questions and end-of-chapter assessment questions

Readership

Fellows and residents of pathology and clinical chemistry, as well as laboratory professionals

Table of contents

1. Preanalytical Variation

2. Statistical Methods in Laboratory Medicine

3. Reference Intervals: Theory and Practice

4. Method Validation: Finding (and Fixing) the Error of Our Testing Ways

5. Quality Control

6. Laboratory Calculations

7. Spectrophotometry

8. Chromatography and Electrophoresis

9. Electrochemistry

10. Mass Spectrometry

11. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technology and Clinical Applications

12. Immunoassays

13. Nucleic Acid Probes Used in the Analysis of DNA

14. The Polymerase Chain Reaction

15. Laboratory Automation

16. Regulatory Issues

17. Principles of Laboratory Management

18. Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine

19. Harmonization of Results Among Laboratories

20. Laboratory Information Systems

21. Point-of-Care Testing

22. Proteins: Analysis and Interpretation in Serum, Urine, and Cerebrospinal Fluid

23. Hemoglobin Variant Detection

24. Hemostasis: The View from the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory

25. Laboratory Diagnosis of Lipid and Lipoprotein Disorders

26. Biomarkers for Acute Cardiovascular Diseases and Heart Failure

27. Laboratory Diagnosis of Liver Disease

28. Clinical Chemistry of the Gastrointestinal Disorders

29. Evaluation of Exocrine Pancreatic Function

30. Carbohydrate Disorders

31. Laboratory Evaluation of Kidney Function

32. Blood Gas and Critical Care Testing

33. Water and Electrolyte Balance

34. Urinalysis

35. Disorders of the Anterior and Posterior Pituitary

36. Laboratory Evaluation of Thyroid Function

37. Disorders of the Adrenal Cortex and Medulla

38. Laboratory Testing in Pregnancy and Reproductive Disorders

39. Tumor Markers

40. Calcium Biology and Disorders

41. Vitamins and Trace Elements: Functions and Assessment of Status through Laboratory Testing

42. Inborn Errors of Metabolism

43. The Porphyrias: Fundamentals and Laboratory Assessment

44. Pharmacokinetics for the Practicing Clinical Chemist

45. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

46. Toxicology and the Clinical Laboratory

47. Pharmacogenetics

48. Applications of Molecular Techniques in the Clinical Laboratory

49. Infectious Disease

50. Pediatric Laboratory Medicine

51. Diagnostic Body Fluid Testing

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 11, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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William Clarke

Dr. William Clarke is a Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the development of analytical methods for drug analysis, clinical mass spectrometry, and devices for point-of-care testing. He serves as the director of Clinical Toxicology for Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as the Point-of-Care Testing Program for Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA

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Mark Marzinke

Dr. Mark Marzinke is Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Dr. Marzinke serves as the Director of General Chemistry in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Core Laboratories, and is the Director of the Clinical Pharmacology Analytical Laboratory within the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. He is also Co-Director of the HIV Prevention Trials Network Laboratory Center.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA

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