Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Laboratory Quality Control: A Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition

• Includes chapters on drug-herb interaction and pharmacogenomics, topics not covered by textbooks in the field of clinical chemistry or laboratory medicine.
• Presents seventy case studies that highlight clinical relevance and errors to avoid.
• Covers important clinical information found in larger textbooks in a more succinct and easy-to-understand manner.

Περιεχόμενα:

1. Instrumentation and Analytical Methods
2. Immunoassay Platform and Designs
3. Pre-Analytical Variables
4. Laboratory Statistics and Quality Control
5. Water, Homeostasis, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance
6. Lipid Metabolism and Disorders
7. Carbohydrate Metabolism, Diabetes, and Hypoglycemia
8. Cardiac Markers
9. Endocrinology
10. Liver Diseases and Liver Function Tests
11. Renal Function Tests
12. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
13. Tumor Markers
14. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
15. Interferences in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
16. Drugs of Abuse Testing
17. Challenges in Drugs of Abuse Testing: Magic Mushrooms, Peyote Cactus, and Designer Drugs
18. Testing for Ethyl Alcohol (Alcohol) and Other Volatiles
19. Common Poisonings Including Heavy Metal Poisoning
20. Pharmacogenomics
21. Hemoglobinopathy
22. Protein Electrophoresis and Immunofixation
23. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis Testing
24. Autoimmunity, Complement, and Immunodeficiency
25. Effect of Herbal Supplements on Clinical Laboratory Test Results