Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

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John Wiley & Sons, Feb 8, 2010 - Medical - 334 pages
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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Contents

Disturbances of water sodium
15
3
35
Disorders of calcium phosphate
71
Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia
90
7
104
Abnormalities of thyroid function
118
Investigation of gonadal function infertility
152
Pregnancy and antenatal screening
170
Cardiovascular disorders
179
13
196
toxicology
278
Clinical biochemistry in paediatrics
290
Selfassessment MCQs
308
Answers to MCQs
319
Index
325
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About the author (2010)

Dr Geoff Beckett, Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Simon Walker, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Peter Rae, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Dr Peter Ashby, Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Dr Geoff Beckett, Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Simon Walker, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Peter Rae, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Dr Peter Ashby, Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Dr Geoff Beckett, Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Simon Walker, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh Dr Peter Rae, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Dr Peter Ashby, Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Bibliographic information

TitleLecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry
Lecture Notes Series - Blackwell Scientific Publications
Volume 23 of Lecture Notes
AuthorsGeoffrey Beckett, Peter Rae, Peter Ashby
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405193050, 9781405193054
Length334 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Biochemistry
Medical / Clinical Medicine
Medical / General
Medical / Internal Medicine
  
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