Clinical and Laboratory Medicine Textbook

This textbook describes several diseases and clinical conditions, from physiopathological mechanisms to main clinical pictures, highlighting the importance of laboratory medicine, with the aim to provide the necessary tools for guiding correct laboratory findings interpretation. Indeed, it is now wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ciaccio, Marcello (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 49 The laboratory in urgency/emergency
  • 50 Biological drugs
  • 51 Mass spectrometry in clinical biochemistry and laboratory medicine
  • 52 Toxicology and analytical pharmacology
  • 53 Pharmacotoxicology of substances of abuse
  • 54 Applications of “omics” sciences in the laboratory
  • 55 Covid-19
  • 56 From aging to healthy longevity: from an oxymoron to an hendiadys. Innovation in Medicine including Predictive Medicine and Laboratory Medicine approaches
  • 57 Biobanks of biomedical interest
  • 58 Health technology assessment in laboratory medicine.-APPENDIX A - RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE APPROPRIATE VENOUS BLOOD COLLECTION.-APPENDIX B - TABLE OF REFERENCE AND DECISIONAL VALUES OF THE MAIN BIOMARKERS.
  • 26 Diabetes mellitus: from definition to therapy
  • 27 Diabetes mellitus: the role of the laboratory
  • 28 Metabolic syndrome
  • 29 Hypoglycemia
  • 30 The role of laboratory in pregnancy
  • 31 Hereditary metabolic diseases
  • 32 Hyperphenylalaninemia, thyrosinemia, glycogenosis, hyperammoniemia
  • 33 Circulating biomarkers in oncology: areas of application, critical issues and perspectives
  • 34 Liquid biopsy
  • 35 Biological fluids
  • 36 Laboratory diagnostics of autoimmune diseases
  • 37 Laboratory diagnostics in allergic diseases
  • 38 Biomarkers of bone remodeling
  • 39 Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative dementias
  • 40 In vivo clinical biochemistry
  • 41 Clinical biochemistry of the mind
  • 42 Clinical molecular biology
  • 43 Fever of unknown origin
  • 44 Biomarkers of inflammation
  • 45 Biomarkers of sepsis
  • 46 Laboratory medicine and physical exercise
  • 47 Clinical biochemistry of the physical exercise
  • 48 Preoperative laboratory tests
  • 1 The role of laboratory medicine in the clinical context
  • 2 The laboratory diagnostic process
  • 3 Elements of biomedical laboratory organization
  • 4 The role of statistics in laboratory medicine
  • 5 Elements of metrology
  • 6 The pre-analytical phase
  • 7 The quality of the laboratory result: SOURCES OF VARIABILITY, METHOD OF ASSESSMENT AND ESTIMATION OF THEIR CLINICAL IMPACT
  • 8 Principles of Immunochemistry
  • 9 General information on laboratory tests and biomarkers
  • 10 Enzymes and their clinical use
  • 11 Liver: from biochemistry to clinical biochemistry
  • 12 Protein diagnostics
  • 13 Biomarkers of the nutritional state
  • 14 Dyslipidemia
  • 15 Hematological diagnostics
  • 16 Immunohematology
  • 17 Hemostasis
  • 18 Kidney
  • 19 Physical, Chemical and morphological urine examination
  • 20 Hydroelectrolytic disorders
  • 21 Blood gas analysis
  • 22 Cardiac biomarkers
  • 23 Stroke biomarkers
  • 24 Thrombophilia
  • 25 Endocrine system