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Contributors vii Tribute to Jacques Wallach ix Preface xi Preface to the First Edition xiii CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Laboratory Medicine 1 L.V. Rao CHAPTER 2 Laboratory Tests 10 L.V. Rao, Liberto Pechet, Amanda Jenkins, Edward I. Ginns, Marzena Galdzicka, Guy Vallaro, Charles Kiefer, and Patricia Minehart Miron CHAPTER 3 Infectious Diseases Assays 396 Michael J. Mitchell and L.V. Rao CHAPTER 4 Cardiovascular Disorders 498 Guy Vallaro CHAPTER 5 Central Nervous System Disorders 526 Juliana Szakacs CHAPTER 6 Digestive Diseases 562 L. Michael Snyder and Michael J. Mitchell CHAPTER 7 Endocrine Diseases 652 Hongbo Yu CHAPTER 8 Renal and Urinary Tract Diseases 706 Liberto Pechet and Charles Kiefer CHAPTER 9 Gynecologic and Obstetric Disorders 765 Liberto Pechet and Mary Williamson CHAPTER 10 Hematologic Disorders 785 Liberto Pechet CHAPTER 11 Hereditary and Genetic Diseases 900 Marzena Galdzicka, Patricia Minehart Miron, and Edward I. Ginns CHAPTER 12 Immune and Autoimmune Diseases 929 Liberto Pechet CHAPTER 13 Infectious Diseases 941 Michael J. Mitchell CHAPTER 14 Respiratory, Metabolic, and Acid-Base Disorders 1037 L.V. Rao and Michael J. Mitchell CHAPTER 15 Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 1083 Amanda Jenkins Appendix: Abbreviations and Acronyms 1099 Index 1105