Part 1: The Clinical Laboratory 1. General Concepts and Administrative Issues 2. Optimizing Laboratory Workflow and Performance 3. Preanalysis 4. Analysis: Principles of Instrumentation 5. Analysis: Clinical Laboratory Automation 6. Point-of-Care Testing and Physician Office Laboratories 7. Postanalysis: Medical Decision Making 8. Interpreting Laboratory Results 9. Laboratory Statistics 10. Quality Control 11. Clinical Laboratory Informatics 12. Financial Management 13. Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Terrorism: Role of the Laboratory Part 2: Clinical Chemistry 14. Evaluation of Renal Function, Water, Electrolytes and Acid-Base Function 15. Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism 16. Carbohydrates 17. Lipids and Dyslipoproteinemia 18. Cardiac Injury, Atherosclerosis, and Thrombotic Disease 19. Specific Proteins 20. Clinical Enzymology 21. Evaluation of Liver Function 22. Laboratory Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Disorders 23. Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 24. Evaluation of Endocrine Function 25. Reproductive Function and Pregnancy 26. Vitamins and Trace Elements 27. Chemical Basis for Analyte Assays and Common Interferences Part 3: Urine and Other Bodily Fluids 28. Basic Examination of Urine 29. Cerebrospinal, Synovial, Serous Body Fluids, and Alternative Specimens Part 4: Hematology and Transfusion Medicine 30. Basic Examination of Blood and Bone Marrow 31. Hematopoiesis 32. Erythrocytic Disorders 33. Leukocytic Disorders 34. The Flow Cytometric Evaluation for Hematopoietic Neoplasia 35. Immunohematology 36. Transfusion Medicine 37. Hemapheresis 38. Tissue Banking and Progenitor Cells Part 5: Hemostasis and Thrombosis 39. Coagulation and Fibrinolysis 40. Platelet Disorders and Von Willebrand Disease 41. Laboratory Approach to Thrombotic Risk 42. Antithrombotic Therapy Part 6: Immunology and Immunopathology 43. Overview of the Immune System and Immunologic Disorders 44. Immunoassays and Immunochemistry 45. Laboratory Evaluation of the Cellular Immune System 46. Laboratory Evaluation of Immunoglobin Function and Humoral Immunity 47. Mediators of Inflammation: Complement 48. Mediators of Inflammation: Cytokines and Adhesion Molecules 49. Human Leukocyte Antigen: The Major Histocompatability Complex of Man 50. The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Disease 51. Immunodeficiency Disorders 52. Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of Systemic Rheumatic Diseases 53. Vasculitis 54. Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases 55. Allergic Diseases Part 7: Medical Microbiology 56. Viral Infections 57. Chlamydial, Rickettsial, and Mycoplasmal Infections 58. Medical Bacteriology 59. In Vitro Testing of Antimicrobial Agents 60. Spirochete Infections 61. Mycobacteria 62. Mycotic Diseases 63. Medical Parasitology 64. Specimen Collection and Handling for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Part 8: Molecular Pathology 65. Introduction to Molecular Pathology 66. Molecular Diagnostics: Basic Principles and Techniques 67. Polymerase Chain Reaction and Other Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology 68. Hybridization Array Technologies 69. Applications of Cytogenetics in Modern Pathology 70. Establishing a Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory 71. Molecular Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases 72. Identity Analysis: Use of DNA Analysis in Parentage, Forensic, and Missing Persons Testing 73. Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Part 9: Clinical Pathology of Cancer 74. Diagnosis and Management of Cancer Using Serologic and Tissue Tumor Markers 75. Oncoproteins and Early Tumor Detection 76. Molecular Diagnosis of Hematopoietic Neoplasms 77. Molecular Genetic Pathology of Solid Tumors 78. High-Throughput Genomic and Proteomic Technologies in the Post-Genomic Era Appendices (Online Only) P ascunde descrierea