Clinical laboratory medicine / edited by Kenneth D. McClatchey.
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Williams & Wilkins,
[1994], ©1994.
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| Physical Description: | xix, 1,893 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- General laboratory
- Laboratory management
- Laboratory safety
- Analytical test variables
- Laboratory information systems
- Molecular pathology
- Basic concepts
- Investigation of the pathogenesis of single-gene disorders by molecular methods
- Clinical applications of molecular biology
- Hematopoietic disorders
- Clinical chemistry
- Immunochemical methods
- Plasma proteins
- Diagnostic enzymology
- Lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins
- Endocrine function and carbohydrates
- Electrolytes and acid-base balance
- Respiration and measurement of oxygen and hemoglobin
- Nitrogen metabolites and renal function
- Calcium, magnesium and phosphate
- Porphyrins, bilirubin and other bile pigments
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Toxicology
- Nutrition, vitamins and trace elements
- Inborn metabolic errors
- Medical microscopy and urinalysis
- Urine
- Body fluid analysis
- Cytogenetics
- Basic cytogenetics
- Clinical cytogenetics
- Prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis
- Chromosome breakage syndromes.
- (cont) Chromosome studies in neoplastic hematologic disorders
- Solid tumor cytogenetics
- HLA typing
- HLA: the major histocompatibility complex: methodologies
- HLA: the major histocompatibility complex: applications
- Hematology
- Hematopoiesis and hematopoietic growth factors
- Peripheral blood and bone marrow: morphology, counts and differentials and reactive disorders
- Red blood cell disorders
- Thalassemia and hemaglobinopathy syndromes
- Acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndromes
- Chronic lymphoproliferative disorders, immunoproliferative disorders and malignant lymphoma
- Chronic myeloproliferative disorders
- Coagulation
- Overview of hemostasis
- Laboratory evaluation of platelet disorders
- Coagulation abnormalities
- Regulatory protein disorders and other thrombotic abnormalities
- Microbiology
- Bacteriology
- Fungi and fungal infections
- Chlamydia, mycoplasma and rickettsia
- Aerobic actinomycetes
- Instrumentation and automation in clinical microbiology
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
- (cont) Diagnostic nucleic acid probes for infectious agents
- Quality control and quality assurance
- Role of the clinical microbiology laboratory in hospital epidemiology and infection control
- Autopsy microbiology
- Diagnostic virology
- Parasitology
- Immunopathology
- Basic principles of immunodiagnosis
- Flow cytometry
- Immunoserology of infectious mononucleosis and related heterophil-negative mononucleosis-like illnesses
- Cellular and humoral mediators of inflammation
- Monoclonal gammopathies
- Immunodeficiency diseases
- Autoimmune disease and serology
- Allergic conditions
- Receptor assays of the clinical laboratory
- Blood bank/transfusion medicine
- Organization and legal concerns of blood banks
- Blood collection
- Pretransfusion testing
- Blood component therapy
- Transfusion therapy
- Neonatal transfusion
- Complications of blood transfusion.