Full Description
This book has a lot of material written in a user-friendly, accessible format, and is primarily intended for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students of biochemistry, medicine, nursing, biomedical science, pharmacy and life sciences. The book is an ideal source for understanding the background of biochemical tests and their interpretation. It covers the bulk of routine analyses and their relevance in a clinical setting and addresses how modern hospital laboratories work. This book includes important, informative topics like laboratory principles and instrumentation, and automation in clinical biochemistry; quality assurance, disorders of carbohydrates and lipids; inborn errors of metabolism; acid-base balance in the body; clinical assessment of renal, hepatic, pancreatic, gastric and intestinal functions; diagnostic enzymology; disturbances in some important hormones; the mineral metabolism and its disorders; calcium and phosphate; and biochemical aspects of hematology. All chapters are enriched with figures and tables to make it more interesting, and to give a better comprehension of the subject.
