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ANN M. GRONOWSKI, PhD, is Associate Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University and Associate Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry and Serology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
CHARLES S. EBY, MD, is Associate Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine, Division of Laboratory Medicine and Hematology at Washington University and Medical Director, Hematology and Coagulation, Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Preface | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xiii |
Cardiac Disease | |
A 45-Year-Old Man with Substantial Chest Pain | p. 3 |
A 48-Year-Old Cocaine User with Chest Pain | p. 11 |
Pulmonary Diseases | |
Shortness of Breath with Productive Cough | p. 19 |
Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Cystic Fibrosis | p. 25 |
Renal Disease | |
Man with Hypertension and Fever | p. 33 |
Oliguria with Metabolic Acidosis after Renal Transplantation | p. 41 |
A Woman with Uremia, Pulmonary Infiltration, and Hemoptysis | p. 49 |
Young Man with Edema and Decreased Urine Output | p. 55 |
A New Doctor for a Man with Diabetes and Hypertension | p. 65 |
A Pain in the Back | p. 75 |
Refractory Hyponatremia with Lung Cancer | p. 79 |
Liver Diseases | |
Adolescent Female with Tremor, Depression, and Hepatitis | p. 91 |
Adult Male with New-Onset Ascites | p. 99 |
An Unexpected Finding... | p. 105 |
I Did It Just Once-A 37-Year-Old Man with Hepatitis C | p. 111 |
Obese Woman with Persistently Abnormal Liver Enzymes | p. 121 |
Thyroid Diseases | |
The Irritable Wife | p. 131 |
The Fatigued Attorney | p. 139 |
The Reluctant Chef | p. 143 |
Adrenocortical Diseases | |
Child with Rapid Growth and Precocious Sexual Maturation | p. 149 |
Weight Gain, Infertility, and Hypertension | p. 155 |
The Tired Teenager | p. 167 |
The Hypertensive Accountant | p. 175 |
Don't "Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning" | p. 183 |
Unpleasant Spells | p. 189 |
Diabetes | |
Recent Weight Loss and Polyuria in a 52-Year-Old Man | p. 199 |
An Unconscious Diabetic Male | p. 205 |
A Diabetic Woman's "Episode" | p. 211 |
Calcium and Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) | |
Bad to the Bone | p. 219 |
A Middle-Aged Woman with Colle's Fracture | p. 225 |
A 10-Year-Old Boy with Pain-Induced Seizures | p. 233 |
Miscellaneous Endocrine Diseases | |
Laboratory Tests Ignored | p. 243 |
Hot Flashes and Abdominal Pain | p. 249 |
Genetically Inherited Disorders | |
Feed a Cold | p. 257 |
Acute Neonatal Ammonia Intoxication | p. 263 |
Not Just a Picky Eater | p. 269 |
The "Fussy" Neonate | p. 275 |
The "Sleepy" Neonate | p. 281 |
A Happy but Developmentally Delayed 5-Year-Old Boy | p. 287 |
The Asymptomatic Iron Man | p. 293 |
Infectious Diseases | |
Tired, Hot, and Lumpy | p. 301 |
A Rash on the Soles of the Feet | p. 305 |
When Life Gives You Lemons | p. 311 |
The Wheezing Woodsman | p. 315 |
Not Just Heartburn | p. 319 |
The Dangers of Yardwork | p. 329 |
Nonhematologic Malignancies | |
An Important Finding on Routine Screening | p. 337 |
Increasing Abdominal Girth | p. 343 |
To Screen or Not to Screen? | p. 349 |
A Male with Confusing hCG Results | p. 355 |
Size Greater than Dates | p. 363 |
Hematologic Malignancies | |
A Man with Anemia and Lymphocytosis | p. 371 |
A Teenager with Pneumonia, Leukopenia, and Ecchymoses | p. 379 |
A Middle-Aged Man with Chronic Foot Ulcer | p. 387 |
A Man with Progressive Effort Intolerance and Splenomegaly | p. 393 |
A Man with Splenic Vein Thrombosis and Polycythemia | p. 401 |
Benign Hematologic Disorders | |
A Child with Pneumonia | p. 411 |
A Man with a Tender Toe and Anemia | p. 419 |
A Woman with Fatigue and Pallor | p. 425 |
Pulseless Leg 9 Days after a Myocardial Infarction | p. 435 |
Young Girl with a Bloody Knee Effusion | p. 443 |
A Young Man with Chest Pain Following a Knee Injury | p. 453 |
A Young Woman with Postpartum Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Abnormal Coagulation Tests | p. 459 |
A Baby with Petechiae and Bruises | p. 465 |
Evaluation of a Reference Range Outlier | p. 475 |
A Woman with Abdominal Pain and Thrombocytopenia | p. 485 |
Sudden Jaundice and Painful Fingers | p. 491 |
The Good in "Bad" Fish Tacos | p. 497 |
The Jaundiced Mother | p. 503 |
Porphyrias | |
Young Woman with Recurrent Abdominal Pain | p. 513 |
A 9-Year-Old Boy with Skin Lesions and Headaches | p. 523 |
Pharmacogenomics | |
Personalized Medicine for a Renal Transplant Patient | p. 533 |
Personalized Medicine for Pain Management | p. 539 |
A Man with Colitis and Pancytopenia | p. 543 |
A 46-Year-Old Female with a Painful, Swollen Right Calf | p. 551 |
Toxicology | |
A Case of Mixed Club Drugs Abuse | p. 557 |
A 43-Year-Old Male with Chronic Pain | p. 561 |
Metabolic Acidosis of Unknown Origin Among Burn Patients | p. 567 |
Lipid Disorders | |
The Family Reunion Party | p. 575 |
A 5-Year-Old Boy with Yellow-Orange Tonsils: Hypoalphalipoproteinemia | p. 581 |
Worsening Diarrhea in a 5-Year-Old Girl | p. 585 |
A 4-Year-Old Girl with Yellow Xanthomas and Arthritis | p. 589 |
Autoimmune Diseases | |
Woman with Morning Stiffness and Tender, Swollen Joints | p. 595 |
Woman with a Rash and Lower Extremity Pain | p. 601 |
Woman with Diarrhea and Anemia | p. 609 |
Analytical Errors | |
Where's My Baby? | p. 617 |
Elevated Concentrations, but Not Elevated Enough | p. 623 |
I Want To Go Home! | p. 629 |
Is That Really the Calcium Value? | p. 635 |
Miscellaneous | |
A Man with Fever and Acute Polyarthritis | p. 643 |
Middle-Aged Alcoholic with Jaundice and Ascites | p. 649 |
Where Did the Red Cells Go? | p. 658 |
Index | p. 665 |
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