Renal medicine and nephrology

Expanded with six additional chapters and new study questions, this updated edition provides a clear and concise understanding of the fundamentals of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders that are frequently encountered in clinical practice.

Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

This book systemically presents the latest research on renal fibrosis, covering all the major topics in the field, including the possible mechanisms, biomarkers, and strategies for prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Internists, surgeons, critical care physicians and nephrologists all treat critically ill patients with renal failure and the multiple system organ dysfunction syndrome.

Kidney disease affects approximately ten percent of the population worldwide, with more than 2.

Die zweite, komplett überarbeitete Auflage des Standardwerkes umfaßt das gesamte Spektrum der Kinderurologie auf dem neuesten Wissensstand.

As the dialysis population grows, an expert medical resource on the percutaneous creation and maintenance of vascular access is much needed.

Genetic disorders have emerged as a prominent cause of morbidity and mor- tality among infants and adults.

Der Wissensstand in der Pädiatrischen Nephrologie ist in den letzten Jahren nahezu explodiert - insbesondere hinsichtlich der Diagnostik angeborener und hereditärer Nephropathien sowie bei Prävention und Behandlung der chronischen Niereninsuffizienz und deren Folgeerscheinungen.

This new edition is devoted to a broad array of topics involving the circadian variation in cardiovascular diseases, with focuses on hypertension, stroke, and coronary disease.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book provides a concise, patient-directed approach to stone prevention.

Lecture Notes: Nephrology is a concise introduction to the fundamental principles of nephrology.

Renal Failure, Diagnosis & Treatment is a practical book that provides a comprehensive description of the evaluation of renal insufficiency.

Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements.

After a decade or longer, approximately one-third of individuals with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes commence a downhill course in which decreasing renal function and failing vision define a Renal-Retinal Syndrome, dominating all aspects of life and presaging early death.

Diabetes and the Kidney provides endocrinologists and nephrologists of all levels with expert clinical diagnosis and management guidance for this extremely common diabetic complication.

This book is designed to assist physicians in choosing among diagnostic procedures and therapeutic options when caring for patients with hypertension and markers of organ damage.

The Textbook of Nephro-Endocrinology is the definitive translational reference in the field of nephro-endocrinology, investigating both the endocrine functions of the kidneys and how the kidney acts as a target for hormones from other organ systems.

Designed for daily use by professionals responsible for caring for patients with renal disease, this long-awaited primer provides a simplified, up-to-date review of peritoneal dialysis.

"e;Pediatric Surgery, Diagnosis and Management"e; features contributions by leading experts in pediatric surgery and pediatric urology who have unique experience in their respective fields.

This is the first book to summarize experimental results from the new, rapidly expanding field of research into the calcium channel in cell membrane.

This text is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art but practical approach to the diagnosis and management of bacterial infection associated renal disease.

More than 400,000 people in the United States undergo kidney dialysis.

This text covers the basic principles of mitochondrial dynamics in cardiovascular medicine, with particular emphasis on their functional roles in physiology and disease.

This handbook provides the fundamental information required to make good clinical assessments and management decisions in children with renal disorders.

Controversy regarding the wisdom of a high salt intake has been with us for 5000 years.

Formulated by members of the International Scientific Committee of Radionuclides in Nephro-urology (ISCORN), Functional Imaging in Nephro-urology is not a textbook on uronephrology or radionuclides in nephro-urology, or even a book on new techniques in imaging.

Recent work has begun to elucidate at the molecular level how albumin is handled by the kidney and how albuminuria develops in various proteinuric diseases including minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

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This comprehensive guide to polycystic kidney disease captures the growing knowledge of this common, potentially-fatal and hereditary disease.

Der körperlich chronisch kranke, dialysepflichtige Patient bedarf einer hoch qualifizierten Pflege und Betreuung.

Volume 4 of Contemporary Nephrology summarizes major advances in 16 different areas of nephrology during the years 1985 and 1986.

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of conditions that straddle the borders between infection and malignancy.

This book describes the past, present and future of dialysis and dialysis-related renal replacement therapies so that the reader can acquire a firm grasp of the medical management of acute and chronic renal failure.

Formulated by members of the International Scientific Committee of Radionuclides in Nephro-urology (ISCORN), Functional Imaging in Nephro-urology is not a textbook on uronephrology or radionuclides in nephro-urology, or even a book on new techniques in imaging.

This book discusses diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and its evolving clinical role.