The new edition of the best-selling Lecture Notes title is a concise introduction to clinical biochemistry that presents the fundamental science underpinning common biochemical investigations used in clinical practice.

Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry allows the reader to make efficient and informed use of the diagnostic services offered by their clinical biochemistry department. The result is a text that serves as a reference to the practitioner as well as the student. The book takes a system-based approach, with the underlying physiological rationale for any test explained in the context of disruption by disease. This leads naturally to an integrated and practical understanding of biochemical diagnostics.

Including multiple choice questions (MCQs) alongside end-of-chapter case studies to help develop test-selection skills, Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry provides the essential background to biochemical investigations and is an ideal course companion and revision guide for medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, general practitioners, and nurses and laboratory technicians.

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Cover
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Requesting and Interpreting Tests
Chapter 2: Disturbances of Water, Sodium and Potassium Balance
Chapter 3: Acid–Base Balance and Oxygen Transport
Chapter 4: Renal Disease
Chapter 5: Disorders of Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium Metabolism
Chapter 6: Diabetes Mellitus and Hypoglycaemia
Chapter 7: Disorders of the Hypothalamus and Pituitary
Chapter 8: Abnormalities of Thyroid Function
Chapter 9: Disorders of the Adrenal Cortex and Medulla
Chapter 10: Investigation of Gonadal Function, Infertility, Menstrual Irregularities and Hirsutism
Chapter 11: Pregnancy and Antenatal Screening
Chapter 12: Cardiovascular Disorders
Chapter 13: Liver Disease
Chapter 14: Gastrointestinal Tract Disease
Chapter 15: Nutrition
Chapter 16: Trauma, Inflammation, Immunity and Malignancy
Chapter 17: Disorders of Iron and Porphyrin Metabolism
Chapter 18: Uric Acid, Gout and Purine Metabolism
Chapter 19: Central Nervous System and Cerebrospinal Fluid
Chapter 20: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Chemical Toxicology
Chapter 21: Clinical Biochemistry in Paediatrics and Geriatrics
Self-assessment MCQs
Answers to MCQs
Appendix: Reference ranges – SI units and ‘conventional’ units
Index

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