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**Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence Award Winner, 2024**
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles? 2024 in Laboratory Medicine**

Use THE definitive reference for laboratory medicine and clinical pathology! Tietz Textbook of Laboratory Medicine, 7th Edition provides the guidance necessary to select, perform, and evaluate the results of new and established laboratory tests. Comprehensive coverage includes the latest advances in topics such as clinical chemistry, genetic metabolic disorders, molecular diagnostics, hematology and coagulation, clinical microbiology, transfusion medicine, and clinical immunology. From a team of expert contributors led by Nader Rifai, this reference includes access to wide-ranging online resources on Elsevier eBooks+ - featuring the comprehensive product with fully searchable text, animations, podcasts, over 1300 clinical case studies, lecture series, and more, all included with print purchase.

• Authoritative, current content helps you perform tests in a cost-effective, timely, and efficient manner; provides expertise in managing clinical laboratory needs; and shows how to be responsive to an ever-changing environment.
• Current guidelines help you select, perform, and evaluate the results of new and established laboratory tests.
• Expert, internationally recognized chapter authors present guidelines representing different practices and points of view.
• Analytical criteria focus on the medical usefulness of laboratory procedures.
• Use of standard and international units of measure makes this text appropriate for any user, anywhere in the world.
• Elsevier eBooks+ provides the entire text as a fully searchable eBook, and includes animations, podcasts, more than 1300 clinical case studies, over 2500 multiple-choice questions, a lecture series, and more, all included with print purchase.

• NEW! 19 additional chapters highlight various specialties throughout laboratory medicine.
• NEW! Updated, peer-reviewed content provides the most current information possible.
• NEW! The largest-ever compilation of clinical cases in laboratory medicine is included with print purchase on Elsevier eBooks+.
• NEW! Over 100 adaptive learning courses included with print purchase on Elsevier eBooks+ offer the opportunity for personalized education.

Table of Contents:

1 Laboratory Medicine

2 Statistical Methodologies in Laboratory Medicine

3 Quality Management in the Clinical Laboratory

4 Specimen Collection and Handling

5 Preanalytical Variations and Preexamination Processes

6 Quality Control

7 NEW! Standardization and Harmonization

8 Biological Variations

9 Reference Intervals

10 Evidenced-Based Lab Medicine

11 Biobanking

12 Lab Support of Pharmaceutical, In Vitro Diagnostics and Epidemiologic Studies

13 NEW! Machine Learning and Big Data

14 NEW! Utilization of Laboratory Tests

15 Lab Safety

16 Optical Techniques

17 Electrochemistry and Chemical Sensors

18 Electrophoresis

19 Chromatography

20 Mass Spectrometry

21 Sample Preparation for Mass Spectrometry Applications

22 Mass Spectrometry Applications in Infectious Disease

23 Mass Spectrometry for Small Molecule

24 Proteomics

25 Enzyme and Rate Analysis

26 Immunochemical Techniques

27 Microfabrication and Microfluidics

28 Cytometry

29 Automation in the Clinical Lab

30 Point-of-Care Testing

31 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins

32 Serum Enzymes

33 Tumor Markers

34 Kidney Function Tests

35 Carbohydrates

36 Lipids and Lipoproteins

37 Electrolytes and Blood Gases

38 Hormones

39 Vitamins and Trace Elements

40 Iron Metabolism

41 Porphyrins and Porphyrias

42 Therapeutic Drug Management

43 Clinical Toxicology

44 Toxic Elements

45 Body Fluids

46 Nutrition

47 Diabetes Mellitus

48 Cardiac Function

49 Kidney Disease

50 Disorders of Water, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Metabolism

51 Liver Disease

52 Gastric, Pancreatic & Intestinal Function

53 Monoamine Producing Tumors

54 Bone and Mineral Metabolism

55 Pituitary Function

56 Adrenal Cortex

57 Thyroid Disorders

58 Reproductive Endocrinology

59 Pregnancy and its Disorders

60 Newborn Screening and Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Small Molecules)

61 Newborn Screening and Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Large Molecules)

62 Principles of Molecular Biology

63 Nucleic Acid Isolation

64 Nucleic Acid Techniques

65 Genomes, Variants, and Massively Paralleled Methods

66 NEW! Clinical Genome Sequencing

67 Molecular Microbiology

68 Genetics

69 Solid Tumors

70 NEW! Hematopathology

71 Circulating Tumor Cells and Circulating Nucleic Acids in Oncology

72 Circulating Nucleic Acids for Prenatal Diagnostics

73 Pharmacogenetics

74 Hemostasis

75 NEW! Hemoglobin and Hemoglobinopathies

76 Automated Hematology

77 Red Blood Cell Morphology and Indices with Clinical Chemistry Interface

78 NEW! White Blood Cell Morphology

79 NEW! Platelets

80 NEW! Enzymes of the RBC

81 NEW! Overview of Infectious Disease

82 NEW! The Role of the Clinical Laboratory in Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship

83 Bacteriology

84 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

85 Mycobacteriology

86 Mycology

87 Parasitology

88 Virology

89 Blood Groups and Pretransfusion Testing

90 Blood Components, Products Modifications, and Blood Donor Screening

91 NEW! Indications for Transfusion: RBCs, platelets, plasma, and cryoprecipitate

92 NEW! Transfusion reactions/adverse events associated with transfusion

93 NEW! Allergy Testing

94 NEW! Immunogenicity of Biologics

95 NEW! Systemic Autoimmune Disease (ANA testing, RF, CCP, antibodies, etc.

96 NEW! Primary and secondary immunodeficiencies

97 NEW! Transplant

98 NEW! Immunogenetics

Appendix Reference Information for the Clinical Laboratory