Synopses & Reviews
Wallach’s Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, now in its Ninth Edition, has been completely revised and updated by a new author team from the Department of Hospital Laboratories, UMass Memorial Medical Center faculty, who are carrying on the tradition of Jacques Wallach’s teachings. This text serves as a practical guide to the use of laboratory tests which aids physicians in using tests more effectively and efficiently by offering test outcomes, possible meanings, differential diagnosis, and summaries of tests available.
The book has been reorganized into 2 sections. The first section is devoted to an alphabetical listing of laboratory tests while stressing the integration of the clinical laboratory in the clinical decision making process. Test sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative infectious disease probabilities are included whenever appropriate. Microbiology tests are listed in a separate chapter. The second section is devoted to disease states. Where appropriate, a patient’s chief complaint and/or physical findings are initially presented with subsequent discussions focused on discrete disease states as they relate to a patient’s chief complaint. Current molecular diagnostic testing, cytogenetics, common pitfalls, test limitations, and identification of appropriate tests for specific clinical presentations are also addressed.
Ninth Edition highlights include:
- Detailed listing and description of routine and esoteric tests listed alphabetically, with information on when to order and how to interpret the test results based on evidence-based laboratory medicine.
- Information on how to work up patients with specific symptoms and the appropriate lab tests to order
- Up-to-date test procedures including molecular diagnostic tests
- Detailed microbiology chapter of infectious diseases
- A companion website, http://solution.lww.com/wallachstests9e with additional online-only content, an image bank with algorithms and tables which can be easily exported into PPT for lectures and presentations, and access to a complimentary mobile application.
Synopsis
"What tests do I order, and what do the results mean?" Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, Eighth Edition provides the answers—quickly and clearly—for a vast range of adult and pediatric conditions. Arranged by organ system, the book summarizes the available tests for most diseases, explains what the results mean, and discusses differential diagnoses.
This thoroughly updated edition includes additional tests based on molecular biology, new data on the use of genetic tests, and many new diagnostic laboratory tests in chemistry. Imaging tests are included where they play a key role in diagnosis. The section on chemical and microbiological terrorism has been expanded.
Readers can search for information in the way that best suits their needs—by index, table of contents, test results, or specific disease. Also included are extensive tables of normal and panic values, tables comparing test results in similar diseases, and an appendix of conversion factors between conventional and SI units.
Synopsis
"What tests do I order, and what do the results mean?" Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, Eighth Edition provides the answersquickly and clearlyfor a vast range of adult and pediatric conditions. Arranged by organ system, the book summarizes the available tests for most diseases, explains what the results mean, and discusses differential diagnoses.
This thoroughly updated edition includes additional tests based on molecular biology, new data on the use of genetic tests, and many new diagnostic laboratory tests in chemistry. Imaging tests are included where they play a key role in diagnosis. The section on chemical and microbiological terrorism has been expanded.
Readers can search for information in the way that best suits their needsby index, table of contents, test results, or specific disease. Also included are extensive tables of normal and panic values, tables comparing test results in similar diseases, and an appendix of conversion factors between conventional and SI units.
Table of Contents
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