Textbook of Clinical Biochemistry

This masterpiece presents the pathophysiological mechanism behind the disease. Each chapter covers a disease, beginning with an etiology of the disease, and followed by the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and laboratory testing, prognosis, and finally the treatment and management of the disease. It will prove useful as a textbook for both pathophysiology and introduction to clinical biochemistry courses in medical colleges. It will be valuable to the students, early in their medical college years, by highlighting the clinical relevance of their basic science courses, and in the preparation for their examinations. The book will also be helpful to students engaged in their internal medicine and surgery internships, and to house-officers as an up to date summary of relevant physiology and a source of key references. Practitioners, both general internists and specialists who provide general care, will find it beneficial as a refresher text, designed to update their knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the commonly encountered diseases. Nurses, nurse-practitioners, physicians’ assistants and other allied health practitioners will find that its concise format and broad scope facilitate their understanding of these basic disease entries.