A guide to laboratory investigations /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon :
Radcliffe Medical Press,
[2003]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Haematology
- Referring to a haematologist
- Cases that the haematologist must see
- Red cell indices
- Anaemia
- White cell indices
- Platelets
- Blood coagulation tests
- Warfarin in practice
- Thrombophilia
- Haemoglobinopathies
- Effects of drug therapies on blood
- Common haematological terms
- Blood tests in heart failure
- Microbiology
- Gastrointestinal organisms
- Urogenital organisms
- Other organisms
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CFS)
- Fertility and pregnancy testing
- Female hormone profiles
- Semen analysis
- Pregnancy tests
- Rhesus blood group testing
- Alpha-fetoproteins
- Rheumatology
- Testing for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- Autoantibodies
- Routine testing of patients receiving disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs
- Biochemistry
- Liver function tests (LFTs)
- Faecal urobilinogen
- Urea and electrolytes
- Urine biochemistry
- Blood sugar
- Creatine kinase (CK)
- Lactic dehydrogenase (LDH)
- Thyroid function tests
- Blood lipids
- Special cases
- Faecal fats
- Coeliac disease
- Miscellaneous
- Interpretation of cervical smears
- Microscopic haematuria
- Faecal occult blood
- Therapeutic target ranges of commonly monitored drugs
- Investigation on leg ulcers
- Interpreting DEXA scans in screening for osteoporosis