Renal medicine and nephrology

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

This comprehensive guide covers the causes, characteristics, and presentations of acute kidney injury (AKI), as well as prevention and treatment.

This comprehensive reference covers the impact of dietary phosphorus in phosphorus physiology, public health and the pathogenesis of disease.

To-the-point diagnostic and therapeutic information on kidney diseases, hypertension, and kidney transplantationCURRENT Essentials of Nephrology & Hypertension is a practical, state-of-the-art review of the clinical management of kidney disease and hypertension.

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.

The renal failure and hemodialysis dependent population is increasing worldwide.

IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerulonephritis in developed countries.

This manual provides practical and accessible information on all aspects of general nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation.

Written by an interdisciplinary team of experts, this book contains historical information as well as current update on renal replacement therapy.

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

The focus of this book is to provide a nephrology reference manual for the developing pediatrician and pediatric nephrologist.

This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war.

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.

This handbook on vacuolar and plasma membrane H+-ATPases is the first to focus on an essential link between vacuolar H+-ATPase and the glycolysis metabolic pathway to understand the mechanism of diabetes and the metabolism of cancer cells.

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

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the latest findings in a wide spectrum of clinically important aspects of chronic kidney disease (CKD), focusing on clinical diagnosis and therapeutics.

This book provides clear understanding of morphological appearances of various glomerular lesions encountered in a wide range of diseases involving renal glomeruli.

This book presents the latest information on the clinical-pathological features of diabetic kidney disease.

Urinary symptoms in women have a very high prevalence rate.

This book describes the latest research on the gut-kidney axis of ureic solutes; the toxico-pathological mechanisms of uremic toxin-induced organ failure, including kidney and cardiovascular tissue; and the preventive therapeutic strategies for uremia and related organ failure associated with kidney injuries and diseases.

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

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

This book presents up-to-date information on the clinical-pathophysiological features of acute renal injury and discusses the KDIGO diagnostic criteria, as well as novel experimental findings, including in the area of regenerative medicine.

This book presents up-to-date information on the clinical-pathophysiological features of acute renal injury and discusses the KDIGO diagnostic criteria, as well as novel experimental findings, including in the area of regenerative medicine.

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

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

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

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 is a thorough guide to dialysis that will assist in the effective treatment of patients.

This book systematically summarizes the ideas and technologies used in urine proteome analysis.

In 1994, the expert knowledge of Ram Gokal and Karl D.

A year or so after Dr.

Peritoneal dialysis represents an internal technique for blood purification.

More than half a million people worldwide are now sustained by renal replacement therapy, mainly hemodialysis at a cost exceeding USD 30 billion per year.

Cardiovascular complications are not only responsible for more than half of our patients' mortality, they also represent the bulk of everyday problems in a dialysis unit.

In many ways this book is a team effort.

Is the nephrology community facilitating excess cardiovascular deaths in patients with kidney failure and anemia by treating to a subnormal hematocrit?

GEORGE A.

This is a time in history when the concept of Quality is reaching new highs in terms of public awareness.

Ethical Problems in Dialysis and Transplantation presents an overview of issues with which nephrologists and decision makers are confronted in their daily practice.

Clinical Management of Renal Transplantation presents The Belfast City and University Hospital experience in renal transplantation.

In many ways this book is a team effort.

The last 20 years has seen an enormous increase in our knowledge about the management of patients with terminal renal failure.

For more than a generation haemodialysis has been the principal method of treating patients with both acute and chronic renal failure.

Part one of the book presents the gastrointestinal problems that commonly face the general practitioner.

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