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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (8 ed.)

Murray Longmore, Ian Wilkinson, Edward Davidson, Alexander Foulkes, Ahmad Mafi

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Feb 2010
Print ISBN-13:
9780199232178
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Aug 2010
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199232178.001.0001

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Clinical chemistry

Chapter:
Clinical chemistry
Author(s):

Murray Longmore,

Ian Wilkinson,

Edward Davidson,

Alexander Foulkes,

Ahmad Mafi

DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199232178.003.0015

Clinical chemistry: Contents

On being normal in the society of numbers - The essence of laboratory medicine - Biochemistry: disease patterns - Lab results: act - Fluid balance & fluid therapy - Electrolyte physiology and the kidney - Acid–base balance - Hyper- and hyponatraemia - Syndrome of inappropriate secretion - Hyper- and hypokalaemia - Calcium & phosphate physiology - Hypercalcaemia - Hypocalcaemia - Phosphate, magnesium, zinc and selenium - Urate and the kidney - Metabolic bone diseases: - Osteoporosis - Osteomalacia - Paget’s disease of bone - Plasma proteins - Urinary proteins - Plasma enzymes - Hyperlipidaemia - The porphyrias

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