Renal medicine and nephrology

This updated new edition provides a short, clear, and useful guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens.

Although it has been appreciated for many years that immune processes underlie most types of glomerulonephritis, it is the recent explosion in knowl- edge of cellular and molecular immunology that has prompted another book on the subject.

This comprehensive book examines the complex interplay between endocrine and kidney disorders, and how this inter-relationship impacts patients with chronic kidney disease.

Combining principles of contemporary immunology with applications to immunopathology, this up-to-date volume documents new developments in the understanding of the origin of autoimmune diseases.

While patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) are now living longer with improved quality of life, the success of novel therapies for mRCC has created challenges for practicing oncologists.

This text comprehensively covers the nutritional and medical management and prevention of kidney stones.

As our knowledge about arterial disease is greatly expanding, the aim of this book is to explore all aspects of arterial pathology, including classification, clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, and therapeutic options.

This book is a gift from the international community of amyloid friends, presented to Professor Dr.

The second edition of Physiology of Membrane Disorders represents an extensive revision and a considerable expansion of the first edition .

Disturbances of iron metabolism, particularly iron deficiency, are among the most commonly overlooked or misinterpreted diseases.

Diabetic complications, which occur both acutely and on a chronic basis, are an enormous challenge facing doctors at every level of care.

For practitioners at all stages of experience, diseases of the parathyroid glands are not easily deciphered.

In examining the preface of our first book, it is increases needed.

Rare Genitourinary Tumors offers the reader an up-to-date discussion of the less common neoplasms affecting the urinary tract and reproductive organs.

report on the latest developments in the field with new information in basic as well as in clinical sciences, Sodium in Health Diseases, covers both the physiology of sodium balance and how it relates to disease.

This volume focuses on cadmium (Cd) exposure, its effects on human health, the mechanism of Cd accumulation and the development of mitigation technologies.

A complete clinically focused guide to managing the full spectrum of kidney diseases and hypertensionA Doody's Core Title!

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.

Zwischen Nierenerkrankungen und Niereninsuffizienz einerseits und onkologischen Erkrankungen andererseits bestehen komplexe wechselseitige Beziehungen.

This is a book about renal cysts and cystic kidneys.

This volume is an excellent guide that comprehensively illustrates hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, especially preeclampsia, in both the basic and clinical aspects.

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This book draws a pathway from metabolic assessment and nutrition support to advances in renal replacement therapy and organ support in critical care, underling the specific clinical aspect and focusing on medical clinical management in critical care.

Professor David Kerr Royal Victoria Infirmary) Newcastle upon Tyne Do we need another book on renal disease?

This comprehensive manual reviews the management of cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

This book explores the emotional problems patients relatives close friends and professionals experience and the support they need when someone is dying.

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.

Der medizinische Fortschritt, die immer komplexeren rechtlichen Vorschriften und nicht zuletzt die Forderung der Patienten nach mehr Transparenz in der Behandlung lassen die genaue Kenntnis operativer Risiken und die uneingeschränkte Aufklärung der Patienten für den Arzt immer wichtiger werden.

Extending from the outpatient management of cardiovascular and kidney disease, to hospital-based decision making in patients with cardio-renal disease and complex interfaces such as hemodialysis in patients with ventricular assist device support, this book serves as a single reference point for cardiology and nephrology clinicians and researchers dealing with the significant overlap areas between these two specialties.

Aimed at practicing clinicians and radiologists, this volume provides up-to-date, detailed information on potentially severe urinary tract infections (UTIs), which frequently require intensive in-patient antibiotic therapy, percutaneous or surgical treatment.

This invaluable guide, endorsed by the UKMi and reflecting the extensive experience of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group, features drug monographs guiding physicians in how to prescribe, prepare, and administer drugs to patients with different levels of kidney function and when undergoing renal replacement therapy.

Urolithiasis, or stone disease occurs in 7% of women and 12% of men at some point, and these statistics are rising.

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

The over-65 population in the United States is rapidly growing.

This book explores the emotional problems patients relatives close friends and professionals experience and the support they need when someone is dying.

The incidence of treated end stage renal disease (ESRD) continues to rise, particularly in the western world.

This book provides detailed information on the nosology, pathology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of fibro-inflammatory disorders, rare diseases that often display systemic organ involvement.

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

The ciliopathies are a group of rare diseases that often affect multiple systems within the body, and are caused by defects in the function or structure of cilia.