Renal medicine and nephrology

Organogenesis of the kidney has been intensely studied for over a century.

Many advances in vitamin D physiology and biochemistry have been made in recent years.

Recent studies have shown that the heart possesses an intrinsic renin angiotensin system that is controlled by tissue-specific parameters that are activated by biomechanical stress.

Despite the rising popularity of the minimally invasive laparoscopic option, open nephron-sparing surgery is still seen by many experts as the 'gold standard' for open surgery for kidney tumors and should remain the first choice for many patients.

Complications of Female Incontinence and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery reviews the prevention, evaluation and management of complications arising from female pelvic surgery.

This comprehensive reference discusses the use of ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and radioisotopes in the imaging of the adult and pediatric urinary tract.

Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease addresses areas of controversy regarding the evaluation and management of recurrent stone formers and provides the best available evidence to support or refute common common drug and dietary recommendations.

The book covers advances in critical care pediatric nephrology, including care of sick children with acute kidney injury.

Acute urinary stones cause one of the most painful sensations the human body can experience, more painful than childbirth, broken bones, gunshot wounds or burns.

This second edition is written for the primary care clinician to help update knowledge of pediatric nephrology.

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

This conference and monograph were the result of many collective efforts.

Since the inaugural publication of Pediatric Dialysis in 2004, a wide range of advances have taken place in dialysis-related care, leading to a wealth of new knowledge in the field.

Comprehensive and clinically relevant, the 3rd Edition of Critical Care Nephrology provides authoritative coverage of the latest advances in critical care procedures for patients with renal diseases or disorders.

This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review in the field of experimental and human nephrogenesis.

Interventional Nephrology: Principles and Practice describes a very direct approach to clinical problems encountered by the community of care providers who treat chronic kidney disease and dialysis patients.

This volume focuses on the investigatory methods applied to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), one of the most common human genetic diseases.

Written by educators and renal nurses with extensive experience of clinical practice the Oxford Handbook of Renal Nursing is a concise, current and evidence-based guide to the care of patients with renal disease.

In recent years there have been huge advances in the understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of the fibrocystic diseases.

This unique book provides an introduction to the fascinating field of tropical nephrology, covering nephrology, infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

This unique volume may very well foreshadow the treatment of renal disease in the twenty-first century.

An innovative, organ-specific text that blends basic science with the fundamentals of clinical medicinePart of the Human Organ Systems series, Renal: An Integrated Approach to Disease skillfully bridges the gap between the science and practice of medicine.

Nolph and Gokal's Text Book of Peritoneal Dialysis, Third Edition, covers advances made in the field for the past 30 years.

This is the first textbook entirely dedicated to the endovascular treatment of complications related to arteriovenous accesses for hemodialysis (native fistulas and prosthetic grafts).

IgA nephropathy has, in the course of two decades, become one of the most important renal diseases.

The kidney plays a vital role in certain endocrine functions.

The field of intensive care in nephrology is a rapidly evolving one, with research starting to translate into clinical guidelines and standards.

The kidney, similar to the heart, plays a three-fold role in essential hypertension.

Few complications of systemic diseases are better understood than diabetic nephropathy.

Nearly all patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have at least one significant dermatologic manifestation.

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life.

This second edition of the Manual of Clinical Dialysis is a concise and well-illustrated guide to all aspects of dialysis.

This Pediatric Nephrology series is a focus on salient points which at the time of each annual seminar are of importance to the practicing pediatrician and nephrologist, the clinical researcher, and basic researcher interested in clinical problems.

The kidneys participate in all vital processes of the body to maintain overall homeostasis and health.

Hypertension remains a leading cause of disability and death worldwide.

The leading textbook on the subject.

This innovative book will provide the nurse, working within a general or specialist surgical unit, with the information required to care for a patient who has undergone surgery resulting in the formation of an ileal anal pouch, Koch pouch, Colo-anal pouch or continent urinary diversions.

Integrative Sexual Health explores beyond the standard topics in men's and women's health, drawing on a diverse research literature to provide an overview of sexual biology and sexual dysfunction, diverse lifespan, lifestyle and environmental impacts on sexual function, integrative medicine solutions to sexual problems, and traditional eastern and western treatment approaches to healing sexual difficulties.

We present to our readers the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Phosphate.

Advances in Health and Disease.

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.

This volume aims at delivering the state-of-the-art scientific and clinical know-how for the management of patients with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs).

In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicians is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

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 textbook provides a practical and board-driven resource to describe and define the emerging field of cardiorenal medicine.