Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods

PART I: The Clinical Laboratory 1. The Clinical Laboratory: Organization, Purpose and Practice 2. Laboratory Regulations 3. Principles of Instrumentation 4. Clinical Laboratory Automation 5. Interpreting Laboratory Results 6. Informatics, Imaging and Interoperability 7. Laboratory Statistics 8. Clinical Laboratory Quality Assurance PART II: Clinical Chemistry 9. Evaluation of Renal Function, Water, Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance and Blood Gases 10. Metabolic Intermediates, Inorganic Ions and Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism 11. Carbohydrates 12. Lipids and Dyslipoproteinemia 13. Specific Proteins 14. Evaluation of Liver Function and Injury 15. Protein Markers of Disease 16. Evaluation of Endocrine Function 17. Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 18. Nutrition PART III: Urine and Other Body Fluids 19. Basic Examination of Urine 20. Cerebrospinal, Synovial, and Serious Body Fluids 21. Andrology Laboratory and Fertility Assessment 22. Laboratory Management of Assisted Reproductive Technology 23. Laboratory Aspects of Gestation Management 24. Laboratory Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreatic Disorders PART IV: Hematology, Coagulation and Transfusion Medicine 25. Basic Examination of Blood 26. Hematopoiesis 27. Erythrocytic Disorders 28. Leukocytic Disorders 29. Blood Platelets 30. Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Hypercoagulation 31. Immunohematology 32. Transfusion Medicine 33. Hemapheresis 34. Tissue Banking and Progenitor Cell 35. Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) PART V: Immunology and Immunopathy 36. Overview of the Immune System and Immunologic Disorders 37. Immunoassays and Immunochemistry 38. Laboratory Evaluation of the Cellular Immune System 39. Laboratory Evaluation of Immunoglobin Function and Humoral Immunity 40. Complement and Kinins: Mediators of Inflammation 41. Cytokines and Adhesion Molecules 42. HLA: The Major Histocompatibility Complex of Man 43. The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Disease 44. Immunodeficiency Disorders 45. Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of Systemic Rheumatic Diseases 46. Vasculitis 47. Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases 48. Allergic Diseases PART VI: Medical Microbiology 49. Viral Infections 50. Chlamydial, Rickettsial, and Mycoplasmal Infections 51. Medical Microbiology 52. In Vitro Testing of Antimicrobial Agents 53. Spirochete Infections 54. Mycobacteria 55. Mycotic Diseases 56. Medical Parasitology 57. Molecular Pathology of Infectious Diseases 58. Specimen Collection and Handling for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases 59. Bioterrorism PART VII: Molecular Pathology 60. An Introduction to Molecular Pathology 61. Molecular Diagnostics: Basic Principles and Techniques 62. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Other Amplification Technology 63. Hybridization Array Technology 64. Applications for Cytogenetics in Modern Pathology 65. Establishing a Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory 66. Molecular Techniques in the Hematopoietic Neoplasms 67. Molecular Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases 68. Forensic Identity Testing by DNA Analysis 69. Proteomics 70. Microarray Analysis 71. Human Genome Project in Laboratory-Based Diagnostics PART VIII: Cancer Testing 72. Molecular Testing 73. Oncoproteins and Early Tumor Detection 74. Diagnosis and Management of Cancer Using Serologic Tumor Markers 75. Use of DNA Polymorphism and Other Genetic Markers