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An excellent resource for appropriate test ordering and interpretation, Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, 11th Edition, helps you save time, avoid errors, and arrive at an accurate diagnosis. Organized into two easy-to-reference sections, this fully revised manual provides comprehensive, practical information on common and uncommon disease states and their diagnosis by laboratory test. The eleventh edition has been revised and reorganized based on reader feedback, helping primary care physicians, subspecialists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical and nursing students keep pace with a rapidly changing health care environment.

  • An easy-to-use organization presents routine and lesser known lab tests first (alphabetically, with detailed descriptions), with disease states following.
  • Newly concise and streamlined content is highlighted by abundant tables, algorithms, and bulleted lists and checklists.
  • A new pull-out card, "Ask Before You Test," helps you remember to check key factors that affect lab tests.
  • Content updates include new information in the genetic, molecular diagnostics, and neurology testing chapters.
  • Frequently ordered tests are included in tabular form, as well as in a tear-out version for convenient clinical use.
  • An expanded index helps you efficiently locate needed information.


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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; and detailed microbiology chapter of infectious diseases.

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781605476674
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Binding: PAPERBACK
  • Edition: 9 PAP/PSC
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Interpretation of Diagnostric Tests
  • Weight: 1338 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1605476676
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jun 2011
  • Depth: 38
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 1143
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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