Class Clinical Biochemistry

Clinical Biochemistry will focus on the relationship between biochemical processes at the cellular level and the physiological processes that occur in mammals (more specifically in the human body), focusing on examples of altered biochemical processes in human diseases. In this sense, the student will have an integrated view of the various metabolic pathways and their regulation, with a greater emphasis on clinical correlations, which describe aberrant biochemical states in disease states (with biochemical and genetic detail), learning that biochemical parameters should be analyzed and monitored. This unit will have an important practical component where the student will use methodologies and analyze parameters used in a clinical laboratory, in order to develop the critical spirit, and the coherent form of presentation of results, which is fundamental in any professional area.

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1 - Introduction to Clinical Biochemistry 2 - Methods used in Clinical Biochemistry. 3 - Quality Control in Clinical Biochemistry. 4 - Laboratory evaluation of the carbohydrate. 5 - Laboratory evaluation of the lipids. 6 - Laboratory evaluation of kidney function. 7 - Laboratory evaluation of liver function. 8 - Laboratory evaluation of pancreatic function. 9 - Laboratory evaluation of cardiac function. 10 - Laboratory evaluation of proteins. 11 - Chemical and cytological analysis of urine

Active learning methodologies based on the resolution of practical problems, on the exposition by the students of some concepts addressed in laboratory classes and the use of observations/results obtained in the laboratory as a starting point for the discussion of more complex concepts/topics.

Devlin, Thomas. Textbook of Chemistry with Clinical Correlations. 7th Ed., Wiley 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0470281734    Burtis, C., Ashwood, E.-Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics 8th Ed, Philadelphia,  W.B.Saunders Company, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-0323530446