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Easy-to-read, clinical chemistry primer for medical residents, students, and clinicians

Table of Contents

1. Instrumentation and Analytical Methods

2. Immunoassay Platform and Designs

3. Pre-Analytical Variables

4. Laboratory Statistics and Quality Control

5. Water, Homeostasis, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance

6. Lipid Metabolism and Disorders

7. Carbohydrate Metabolism, Diabetes, and Hypoglycemia

8. Cardiac Markers

9. Endocrinology

10. Liver Diseases and Liver Function Tests

11. Renal Function Tests

12. Inborn Errors of Metabolism

13. Tumor Markers

14. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

15. Interferences in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

16. Drugs of Abuse Testing

17. Challenges in Drugs of Abuse Testing: Magic Mushrooms, Peyote Cactus, and Designer Drugs

18. Testing for Ethyl Alcohol (Alcohol) and Other Volatiles

19. Common Poisoning Including Heavy Metal Poisoning

20. Pharmacogenomics

21. Hemoglobinopathy

22. Protein Electrophoresis and Immunofixation

23. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis Testing

24. Autoimmunity, Complement, and Immunodeficiency

25. Effects of Herbal Supplements on Clinical Laboratory Test Results

About the Author

Amitava Dasgupta received his Ph.D degree in Chemistry from the Stanford University and his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry from the Laboratory Medicine Department of the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle. He is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center located at the Texas Medical Center at Houston. Dr. Dasgupta has published 196 scientific papers, wrote many invited review articles, and edited, co-edited or wrote 15 books. He is on the Editorial Board of five major medical journals including American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Clinica Chimica Acta and Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.