TY - BOOK AU - Crook,Martin A. TI - Clinical chemistry & metabolic medicine / SN - 0340906170 U1 - 616.0756 21 PY - 2006/// CY - London : PB - Hodder Arnold ; KW - Metabolism KW - Chemistry, Clinical KW - methods KW - Metabolic Diseases N1 - Includes index; Rev. edition of: clinical chemistry in diagnosis and treatment / Philip D. Mayne. 6th edition 1994; Requesting laboratory tests and interpreting the results -- Water and sodium -- The kidneys -- Acid-base disturbances -- Potassium -- Calcium, phosphate and magnesium -- The hypothalamus and pituitary gland -- The adrenal cortex -- The reproductive system -- Pregnancy and infertility -- Thyroid function -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Plasma lipids and lipoproteins -- Nutrition -- Vitamins, trace elements and metals -- The gastrointestinal tract -- Liver disorders and gallstones -- Plasma enzymes in diagnosis (clinical enzymology) -- Proteins in plasma and urine -- Purine and urate metabolism -- Disorders of haem metabolism : iron and the porphyrias -- Cardiovascular disease -- Cerebrospinal and pleural fluid -- Metabolic effects of tumours -- Therapeutic drug monitoring and poisoning -- Clinical biochemistry at the extremes of age -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Genetics and DNA-based technology in clinical biochemistry -- Patient sample collection and use of the laboratory -- Point of care testing ER -