Renal medicine and nephrology

Eureka: Renal Medicine is an innovative book for medical students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery.

This first volume of an exciting new book series offers a comprehensive and logically organized introduction to clinical pharmacy as applied to renal medicine.

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 concise book provides an overview of the essential aspects of transplant nephrology.

This updated new edition provides a concise and practical guide to the interpretation of renal biopsy specimens.

Hypertension remains a leading cause of disability and death worldwide.

The female patient with chronic kidney disease often requires care that differs from the male patient.

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.

The increase in average life expectancy observed over recent decades has brought new challenges to nephrology practice.

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

Moving beyond the science of hemodialysis access, this collection of clinical cases covers procedural and practical aspects of arteriovenous fistula, arteriovenous graft, dialysis catheter, draining veins, central veins, arterial interventions and hand ischemia.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to peritoneal dialysis (PD).

Translational Urinomics provides an overview of urine analysis using proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics or any combination thereof for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases related to the urinary system and the kidneys.

Kidney Development and Disease brings together established and young investigators who are leading authorities in nephrology to describe recent advances in three primary areas of research.

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.

Written in a succinct question and answer format, this comprehensive book is a resource on all areas of nephrology and common clinical scenarios.

This text serves as a convenient one-stop resource on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases in context of advanced heart failure and presence of ventricular assist devices.

This book serves as a concise guide to urinary stone disease, providing simplified and complete information about the topic area.

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

This book guides readers through a wide spectrum of clinical presentations in patients with arterial hypertension and different degrees of renal impairment, ranging from asymptomatic urine abnormalities to end stage renal disease.

Hypertension: from basic research to clinical practice"e; contains a unique collection of selected chapters written by experts and enthusiasts engaged in research and treatment of hypertension, a condition that affects around a billion people in the world.

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.

This comprehensive volume provides a detailed review on the general work up of chronic kidney disease-associated resistant hypertension.

This book aims to present a comprehensive classification of hypertensive phenotypes based on underlying target organ involvement.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the unique challenges inherent in pediatric kidney transplantation.

This invaluable resource discusses clinical applications with effects and side-effects of applications of stem cells in diabetes, kidney and wound treatment.

This book presents the current knowledge on the mechanisms by which exercise lowers blood pressure in hypertension and on its effects on the heart and arteries.

This book is a wide-ranging guide to current and emerging applications of ultrasonography within nephrology that aims to provide readers with a sound understanding of the rationale for the use of ultrasound techniques in various disease settings,  for example, complications following renal transplantation, arteriovenous fistulas, renal artery stenosis, nonstenotic renal artery pathology, renal vein pathology, aortic disease, and acute renal failure.

This book is a comprehensive guide to extracorporeal stone wave lithotripsy (ESWL) that includes a step-by-step approach for treating every possible kidney stone position.

This book provides a case based approach to the problems faced within pediatric urology and an evidence based approach to their solutions.

This book will cover all aspects of hypertension and the manifestations of cardiovascular disease in the Asian population.

This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of hemodialysis access creation and advanced management for maintenance is designed to meet the needs of all surgeons and physicians responsible for the treatment and care of patients undergoing dialysis.

Patients with kidney disease often find it difficult to understand and undertake the lifestyle changes that will help them stay as healthy as possible.

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.

Modernste Dialysetechnik heute: Wie bleiben Pflegende da auf dem aktuellen Stand?

End-stage renal disease is a devastating diagnosis to the patient, family and their care provider.

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

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This book focuses on patients with end-stage-liver disease (ESLD) who could possibly qualify for liver transplant.

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

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

This book explains the development of various laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) techniques, which can be performed via the retroperitoneal or the transperitoneal approach.

This book discusses normal brain physiology and renal physiology, as well as the interactions between the two.

This book covers all key aspects of critical care in pediatric nephrology, including acute dialysis in sick children.

This book highlights recent advances in our understanding of sarcopenia and frailty in CKD.

Over the last decade the development of new molecular biology tools, advanced microscopy, live imaging and systems biology approaches have revolutionized our conception of how embryonic development proceeds.

As the expense of treating a growing number of end-stage kidney disease patients increases, greater attention has been paid to prevention and early treatment.

This second edition expands upon the previous volume with additional emphasis on recent innovation in basic renal research and has a more holistic approach on associated disorders such as complications associated with peritoneal dialysis, ischemic acute kidney injury, the sympathetic nervous system, and vascular calcification.