Tietzs Applied Laboratory Medicine

The classic reference, expanded and updated
Tietz′s Applied Laboratory Medicine, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of modern laboratory medicine in a real–life, case–based format. Complete with patient history and laboratory data, the cases illustrate many new laboratory tests and treatments, current risk factor guidelines based on laboratory tests, and new test algorithms. For ease of use, cases are grouped by body system or disease category, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, liver, gastrointestinal, endocrine, gynecologic and obstetrical, hematological, and central nervous system, as well as lipid and metabolism disorders, congenital disorders, toxicology, infectious, autoimmune diseases, and more. Extensively updated and expanded, this reference features: Ninety cases illustrating the latest laboratory tests for disease diagnosis and risk assessment, including: cardiac damage markers, congestive heart failure markers, cardiac risk factors, autoimmune markers, bone resorption markers, and genetic testingNew case studies encompassing hematology, coagulation, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, molecular diagnostics, and moreDetailed case studies that include the definition of the disease, its pathophysiology, and treatment
This is a practical, valuable reference for clinical chemists, clinical lab technologists, pathologists, allied health professionals, general practitioners, residents, medical students, and educators.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Contributors.
Part One: Cardiac Disease.
Case 1. A 45–Year–Old Man with Substantial Chest Pain (Fred S. Apple).
Case 2. A 48–Year–Old Cocaine User with Chest Pain (Fred S. Apple and Ramona Evans).
Part Two: Pulmonary Diseases.
Case 3. Shortness of Breath with Productive Cough (Nausherwan K. Burki).
Case 4. Genotype–Phenotype Correlations in Cystic Fibr osis (Latisha Love–Gregory, Barbara Zehnbauer, and Dennis Dietzen).
Part Three: Renal Disease.
Case 5. Man with Hypertension and Fever (C. Darrell Jennings).
Case 6. Oliguria with Metabolic Acidosis after Renal Transplantation (C. Darrell Jennings).
Case 7. A Woman with Uremia, Pulmonary Infiltration, and Hemoptysis (C. Darrell Jennings).
Case 8. Young Man with Edema and Decreased Urine Output (H. William Schnaper).
Case 9. A New Doctor for a Man with Diabetes and Hypertension (Michael E. Hull).
Case 10. A Pain in the Back (Kevin J. Martin and Esther A. González).
Case 11. Refractory Hyponatremia with Lung Cancer (Manish J. Gandhi).
Part Four: Liver Diseases.
Case 12. Adolescent Female with Tremor, Depression, and Hepatitis (Steven I. Shedlofsky).
Case 13. Adult Male with New–Onset Ascites (Steven I. Shedlofsky).
Case 14. An Unexpected Finding . . . (Nathan C. Walk).
Case 15. I Did It Just Once—A 37–Year–Old Man with Hepatitis C (Alvaro Koch and Luis R. Peña).
Case 16. Obese Woman with Persistently Abnormal Liver Enzymes (Iliana Bouneva).
Part Five: Thyroid Diseases.
Case 17. The Irritable Wife (William E. Winter).
Case 18. The Fatigued Attorney (Kenneth B. Ain).
Case 19. The Reluctant Chef (Kenneth B. Ain).
Part Six: Adrenocortical Diseases.
Case 20. Child with Rapid Growth and Precocious Sexual Maturation (Phyllis W. Speiser).
Case 21. Weight Gain, Infertility, and Hypertension (William E. Winter).
Case 22. The Tired Teenager (William E. Winter).
Case 23. The Hypertensive Accountant (Michael Stowasser and Richard D. Gordon).
Case 24. Don’t “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning” (Jacqueline E. Payton).
Case 25. Unpleasant Spells (Les G. K. Q. Burke and Ravinder J. Singh).
Part Seven: Diabetes.
Case 26. Recent Weight Loss and Polyuria in a 52–Year–Old Man (Anders H. Berg and David B. Sacks).
Case 27. An Unconscious Diabetic Male (Anders H. Berg and David B. Sacks).
Case 28. A Diabetic Woman’s “Episode” (Anders H. Berg and David B. Sacks).
Part Eight: Calcium and Parathyroid Hormone (PTH).
Case 29. Bad to the Bone (Chelsea A. Sheppard and Corinne R. Fantz).
Case 30. A Middle–Aged Woman with Colle’s Fracture (Catherine A. Hammett–Stabler).
Case 31. A 10–Year–Old Boy with Pain–Induced Seizures (Lorin M. Henrich, Alan D. Rogol, and David E. Bruns).
Part Nine: Miscellaneous Endocrine Diseases.
Case 32. Laboratory Tests Ignored (Oren Zinder).
Case 33. Hot Flashes and Abdominal Pain (Jennifer Snyder).
Part Ten: Genetically Inherited Disorders.
Case 34. Feed a Cold (Dennis Dietzen).
Case 35. Acute Neonatal Ammonia Intoxication (Dennis Dietzen).
Case 36. Not Just a Picky Eater (Douglas F. Stickle and Richard E. Lutz).
Case 37. The “Fussy” Neonate (Patricia M. Jones and Dinesh Rakheja).
Case 38. The “Sleepy” Neonate (Dinesh Rakheja and Patricia M. Jones).
Case 39. A Happy but Developmentally Delayed 5–Year–Old Boy (Alison E. Presley and David E. Bruns).
Case 40. The Asymptomatic Iron Man (Elise Krejci).
Part Eleven: Infectious Diseases.
Case 41. Tired, Hot, and Lumpy (J. Stacey Klutts).
Case 42. A Rash on the Soles of the Feet (Robyn M. Atkinson).
Case 43. When Life Gives You Lemons (Robert S. Liao).
Case 44. The Wheezing Woodsman (Paula Revell).
Case 45. Not Just Heartburn (Ariel Goldschmidt).
Case 46. The Dangers of Yardwork (Nathan A. Ledeboer).
Part Twelve: Nonhematologic Malignancies.
Case 47. An Important Finding on Routine Screening (Joan K. Riley).
Case 48. Increasing Abdominal Girth (Nicholas P. Taylor and Randall K. Gibb).
Case 49. To Screen or Not to Screen? (Da–elene van der Merwe and Eleftherios P. Diamandis).
Case 50. A Male with Confusing hCG Results (Kingshuk Das).
Case 51. Size Greater than Dates (Randall K. Gibb and Nicholas P. Taylor).
Part Thirteen: Hematologic Malignancies.
Case 52. A Man with Anemia and Lymphocytosis (Sylva Bem, Robert E. Hutchison, and Naif Z. Abraham, Jr.).
Case 53. A Teenager with Pneumonia, Leukopenia, and Ecchymoses (Anna Hallsdordottir).
Case 54. A Middle–Aged Man with Chronic Foot Ulcer (Brian Watson).
Case 55. A Man with Progressive Effort Intolerance and Splenomegaly (Mrinal M. Patnaik and Ayalew Tefferi).
Case 56. A Man with Splenic Vein Thrombosis and Polycythemia (Karen Austin).
Part Fourteen: Benign Hematologic Disorders.
Case 57. A Child with Pneumonia (John A. Koepke).
Case 58. A Man with a Tender Toe and Anemia (John Koepke).
Case 59. A Woman with Fatigue and Pallor (Naif Z. Abraham, Jr. and Robert E. Hutchison).
Case 60. Pulseless Leg 9 Days after a Myocardial Infarction (Majed Refaai).
Case 61. Young Girl with a Bloody Knee Effusion (Danielle Stueber).
Case 62. A Young Man with Chest Pain Following a Knee Injury (Ganesh C. Kudva).
Case 63. A Young Woman with Postpartum Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Abnormal Coagulation Tests (Hans–Joachim Reimers).
Case 64. A Baby with Petechiae and Bruises (Lori Luchtman–Jones).
Case 65. Evaluation of a Reference Range Outlier (Charles Eby).
Case 66. A Woman with Abdominal Pain and Thrombocytopenia (Ji Lu).
Case 67. Sudden Jaundice and Painful Fingers (Arnel Urbiztondo).
Case 68. The Good in “Bad” Fish Tacos (Kimberley G. Crone).
Case 69. The Jaundiced Mother (Nathan Walk).
Part Fifteen: Porphyrias.
Case 70. Young Woman with Recurrent Abdominal Pain (Steven I. Shedlofsky).
Case 71. A 9–Year–Old Boy with Skin Lesions and Headaches (David Bruns and Audrey K. Bennett).
Part Sixteen: Pharmacogenomics.
Case 72. Personalized Medicine for a Renal Transplant Pati