Handbook of Diagnostic Endocrinology 3rd Edition by William E. Winter

Handbook of Diagnostic Endocrinology 3rd Edition by William E. Winter

Publisher: Academic Press

Print ISBN: 9780128182772, 0128182776

eText ISBN: 9780128182789, 0128182784

Edition: 3rd

Copyright year: 2021

The clinical laboratory plays a critical role in the diagnosis and management of endocrine and related metabolic disorders, which are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children and adults. The Handbook of Diagnostic Endocrinology, Third Edition, provides a ready reference for the evaluation, diagnosis, and monitoring of such disorders. This revision incorporates translational medicine, connecting what clinicians need to know with those in research providing a clinical context to which they can relate their molecular findings. This book solves the needs of clinicians and researchers by bringing together in one book endocrinology at the molecular and clinical levels. As the intricacies of intracellular signaling have become better understood, states of hormone resistance are now increasingly recognized. The most common endocrinopathy in westernized countries, the metabolic syndrome, results, to a large extent, from insulin resistance. The complexity of the circulating forms of various hormones are acknowledged in this revision.

Each chapter focuses on the biochemical tests that are required, either in the basal state or following provocation or suppression, to assist in the diagnosis of the various disorders

Describes proper sample collection and relevant interpretations of laboratory tests

Contains essential molecular biology and incorporates it with the clinical information

Includes the discovery of new diagnostic and treatment methods