Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine Eighth Edition

Summary:
Whether you are following a problem-based, an integrated or a more traditional medical course, clinical biochemistry is often viewed as one of the more challenging subjects to grasp. What you need is a single resource that not only explains the biochemical underpinnings of metabolic medicine, but also integrates laboratory findings with clinical practice. You will find all this, and more, in the eighth edition of Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine.

This well-respected text provides comprehensive and measured guidance to this complex area, reflecting the ongoing changes in our understanding of clinical biochemistry while preserving the acknowledged strengths of previous editions: readability, a firm basis in the underlying science and a clear focus on clinical applicability.

• Fully integrated approach - clinical practice logically explained in the context of underlying basic science
• Clinically oriented - case histories and algorithms direct clinical application of laboratory findings
• Comprehensive - includes common and less common diseases and syndromes
• Highly illustrated - with clear and reproducible full colour line diagrams and, new to this edition, clinical photographs
• Companion website - including self assessment questions and image library

Table of Contents:
Preface
List of abbreviations
1 Requesting laboratory tests and interpreting the results
2 Water and sodium
3 The kidneys
4 Acid-base disturbances
5 Potassium
6 Calcium, phosphate and magnesium
7 The hypothalamus and pituitary gland
8 The adrenal cortex
9 The reproductive system
10 Pregnancy and infertility
11 Thyroid function
12 Carbohydrate metabolism
13 Plasma lipids and lipoproteins
14 Nutrition
15 Vitamins, trace elements and metals
16 The gastrointestinal tract
17 Liver disorders and gallstones
18 Plasma enzymes in diagnosis (clinical enzymology)
19 Proteins in plasma and urine
20 Purine and urate metabolism
21 Disorders of haem metabolism: iron and the porphyrias
22 Cardiovascular disease
23 Cerebrospinal and pleural fluid
24 Metabolic effects of tumours
25 Therapeutic drug monitoring and poisoning
26 Clinical biochemistry at the extremes of age
27 Inborn errors of metabolism
28 Genetics and DNA-based technology in clinical biochemistry
29 Patient sample collection and use of the laboratory
30 Point of care testing
Appendix 1 Units in clinical chemistry

About the Author(s):
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

Readership:
Undergraduate medical students, specifically those on more traditional courses where 'pre-clinical-studies in basic science are still undertaken, and others where biochemistry retains a distinct profi