This book is the 2nd improved and expanded edition of "Clinical Enzymology" (Lott/Wolf, 1987). It includes case studies and guidelines for specialists of laboratory medicine and clinicians, devotes each chapter to a specific enzyme or protein marker, contains case studies and guidelines, a section on marker biochemistry and physiology as well as a section on special pathology and analysis. The clear, didactic structure and the multiple choice questions also make the book valuable reading for graduate students in the fields of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine.

Disease, infection and other illnesses frequently result in alterations of the normally low levels of cellular enzymes in the blood and extracellular fluids. By careful analysis of enzyme activity, it is possible to diagnose the presence, extent and location of disease.