The right test : a physician's guide to laboratory medicine /
Speicher, Carl E.
Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : W.B. Saunders,
c1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 240) and index.
Practice parameters -- Need for a better way for physicians to use laboratory tests -- Decision-making model as a framework for laboratory testing -- Problem-solving, clinical decision-making approach to laboratory testing -- Useful techniques for interpreting laboratory data -- Format for discussing medical problems in this book -- Screening -- Wellness screening and case finding -- Unexplained abnormal test result -- Pregnancy testing -- Pap smear and cervical cancer -- Serum cholesterol and coronary heart disease -- Occult fecal blood testing and colorectal cancer -- Digital rectal examination, prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer -- Detection of alcohol abuse -- Urine screening for drug abuse -- Hemochromatosis -- General and miscellaneous problems -- Human immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS -- Lyme disease -- Sexually transmitted disease -- Food poisoning and the restaurant syndromes -- Cerebrospinal fluid analysis -- Synovial fluid analysis -- Cardiovascular diseases -- Acute myocardial infarction -- Congestive heart failure -- Hypertension -- Digoxin monitoring.
(cont) Respiratory tract diseases -- Acute pharyngitis -- Allergic rhinitis -- Community-acquired pneumonia -- Pulmonary embolism -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Pleural fluid analysis -- Gastrointestinal diseases -- Acute abdominal pain -- Acute diarrhea -- Intestinal malabsorption -- Ascites -- Diseases of the liver -- Jaundice and liver function tests -- Acute viral hepatitis -- Fatty liver and alcoholic hepatitis -- Acute nonviral, nonalcoholic hepatitis -- Chronic persistent and chronic active hepatitis -- Cirrhosis -- Cholestasis and obstructive liver disease -- Urinary tract diseases -- Urinalysis -- Glucosuria -- Proteinuria -- Hematuria and colored urine -- Urinary tract infection in women -- Acute renal failure -- Endocrine and metabolic diseases -- Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism -- Hypocalcemia and hypoparathyroidism -- Hypercalcemia, cancer, and hyperparathyroidism -- True hypoglycemia and the idiopathic postprandial syndrome -- Diabetes mellitus -- Gestational diabetes mellitus -- Adrenal insufficiency.
(cont) Hematologic diseases -- Classifying blood cell disorders by a complete blood count with differential -- Microcytic anemia without reticulocytosis -- Macrocytic anemia without reticulocytosis -- Normocytic anemia without reticulocytosis -- Anemia with reticulocytosis -- Classifying bleeding disorders by laboratory tests -- Acid-base disturbances and electrolyte diseases -- Classifying fluid volume, acid-base, electrolyte and osmolality disorders by laboratory tests -- Acid-base disorders -- Hyponatremia -- Hypernatremia -- Hypokalemia -- Hyperkalemia -- Hypophosphatemia -- Hyperphosphatemia -- Hypomagnesemia -- Hypermagnesemia.
Diagnosis, Laboratory