This first volume of an exciting new book series offers a comprehensive and logically organized introduction to clinical pharmacy as applied to renal medicine.
The second edition of this educational book provides an updated resource on how best to discuss and manage acute and chronic presentations of renal diseases.
This book is devoted to hypertension in children and adolescents, a clinical issue that - thanks to the strides made in several areas of pathophysiological and clinical research - has received growing interest in cardiovascular medicine over the last several years.
This volume, written by well-known experts in the field, covers all aspects of Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA) Associated Vasculitis (AAV).
This book guides readers through the correct use and consequent diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and different phenotypes of arterial hypertension.
This volume, written by well-known experts in the field, covers all aspects of Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA) Associated Vasculitis (AAV).
This is the first textbook entirely dedicated to the endovascular treatment of complications related to arteriovenous accesses for hemodialysis (native fistulas and prosthetic grafts).
Biologics have revolutionised the treatment of many severe conditions, delivering exceptional clinical results but also producing exceptionally high prices.
This third edition of this text is organized into seven sections that address the educational needs of dietitians around the world who seek current information about nutritional management of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Pocket Reference to Renal Anemia, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of anemia in patients with renal disease, including the definition and causes of renal anemia, current management approaches, and the latest clinical practice guidelines.
Acute Renal Failure in Practice, edited by practising renal physicians, is the essential guide to the clinical management of patients with acute renal failure and its complex, life-threatening metabolic sequelae.
Issues in Kidney Disease-Transplantation is a collection of seventeen independent chapters written by renowned authors, covering a wide range of topics, from the overview of transplantation, the complex process of paired organ donation, transplantation in highly sensitized recipients, recurrent disease following transplantation, controversies in multi-organ transplantation, the successes in short and long-term outcomes after kidney transplantation, and the complex issues of ethics in transplantation.
Issues in Kidney Disease-Acute Kidney Injury is a collection of nineteen independent chapters written by internationally renowned authors, covering a wide range of topics, including the basic concepts and management of acute kidney injury (AKI), contrast induced nephropathy, acute tubular necrosis, interstitial nephritis, glomerulonephritis, obstructive uropathy, COVID-19, cardiorenal and hepatorenal syndrome.
Issues in Kidney Disease - Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a collection of 17 detailed chapters written by world leaders and experts in nephrology in order to provide a comprehensive review of kidney disease using evidence-based recommendations and guidelines.
Issues in Kidney Disease - Dialysis is a collection of nineteen independent chapters written by internationally renowned authors, covering a wide range of topics, from the history and milestones to the future, in different renal replacement therapy modalities, such as hemodialysis, online hemodiafiltration, and peritoneal dialysis.
Nutrition in Kidney Disease, Second Edition addresses the relationships between nutrition and (1) normal kidney function and disease, (2) the progressiveness of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and strategies to prevent further compromise, and (3) the treatment and management of kidney failure especially during medical crises, such as acute kidney injury and its consequent nutritional therapies (e.
Complications of Female Incontinence and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery reviews the prevention, evaluation and management of complications arising from female pelvic surgery.
Conditions such as oxidative stress and hypoxia, which have a generalized impact on the oxygen metabolism, have been implicated in the genesis of kidney disease.
The prevalence of hypertension is almost three times as high as that of diabetes mellitus type 2, with both conditions being major risk factors for stroke, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure.
The Nutrition and Health(TM) series of books have, as an overriding mission, to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes: (1) a synthesis of the state of the science, (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields, (3) extensive, up-to-date fully annotated reference lists, (4) a detailed index, (5) relevant tables and figures, (6) identi- cation of paradigm shifts and the consequences, (7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, inter-chapter referrals, (8) suggestions of areas for future research, and (9) balanced, data-driven answers to patient /health professional questions that are based upon the totality of evidence rather than the findings of any single study.
Secondary forms of hypertension are not uncommon in clinical prac- tice, but they are often overlooked or forgotten by clinicians in many fields of medicine.
Kidney transplantation is a medical procedure performed on patients with end-stage kidney disease that can increase their life expectancy by several years.
