Patricia M. Jones, PhD is the Clinical Director of the Chemistry and Metabolic Disease Laboratories at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She is also a Professor of Pathology and Medical Laboratory Sciences at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dennis J. Dietzen, PhD is Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Shannon Haymond, PhD is Associate Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; and Laboratory Director, Clinical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Michael J. Bennett, PhD is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
1. Introduction
2. Daily Practice
3. Instrumentation
4. Common Tests
5. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
6. IEM Testing
7. Newborn Screening
8. Cystic Fibrosis
9. Sweat Chloride Testing
10. Pediatric Reference Intervals
11. Maternal-Fetal Testing
12. Drug Testing
13. Pediatric Tumor Marker Testing
14. Information Systems
15. Pediatric Microbiology
16. Pediatric Hematology
17. Pediatric Transfusion Medicine
18. Molecular Diagnostic Testing
19. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Diagnosis and Monitoring
20. Hypoglycemia Differential Diagnosis
21. Pediatric Obesity