National Kidney Foundation's primer on kidney diseases. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Primer on kidney diseases
• Uniform Title: Primer on kidney diseases.
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Scott J. Gilbert, Daniel E. Weiner ; associate editors, Debbie S. Gipson, Mark A. Perazella, Marcello Tonelli.
• Editors: Gilbert, Scott J; Weiner, Daniel E; Gipson, Debbie S; Perazella, Mark A; Tonelli, Marcello
• Other Names: National Kidney Foundation.
• Contents: Overview of kidney function and structure -- Kidney development -- Assessment of glomerular filtration rate in acute and chronic settings -- Urinalysis and urine microscopy -- Hematuria and proteinuria -- Kidney imaging -- Hyponatremia and hypoosmolar disorders -- Hypernatremia -- Edema and the clinical use of diuretics -- Disorders of potassium metabolism -- Disorders of mineral matabolism: calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium -- Approach to acid-base disorders -- Metabolic acidosis -- Metabolis alkalosis -- Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis -- Glomerular clinicopathologic syndromes -- Minimal change disease -- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -- Membranous nephropathy -- Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and related disorders -- Goodpasture syndrome and other antiglomerular basement membrane diseases -- Postinfectious glomerulonephritis -- Kidney involvement in systemic vasculitis -- Kidney manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus -- Pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of diabetic nephropathy -- Dysproteinemias and amyloidosis -- Thrombotic microangiopathies -- Viral nephropathies: human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus and hepatitis B virus -- Acute cardiorenal syndrome -- Hepatorenal syndrome and other liver-related kidney deseases -- Kidney incancers -- Pathophysiology of acute kidney injury -- Clinical approach to the diagnosis of acute kidney injury -- Acute tubular injury and tubular necrosis -- Acute interstitial nephritis -- Management of acute kidney injury -- Kidney disease causes by therapeutic agents -- Principles of drug therapy in patients with reduced kidney function -- Genetically based renal transport disorders -- Sickle cell nephropathy -- Polycystic and other cystic kidney diseases -- Nephronophthisis and medullary cystic kidney disease -- Alport syndrome and related disorders -- Fabry diseases -- Chronic tubulointerstitial disease -- Obstructive uropathy -- Nephrolithiasis -- Urinary tract infection and pylenonephritis -- Kidney in infants and children -- Kidney in pregnancy -- Kidney disease in the elderly -- Pathophysiology of chronic kidney diseases -- Staging and management of chronic kidney disease -- Nutrition and kidney diseases -- Bone disorders in chronic kidney disease -- Cardiac function and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease -- Anemia and other hematologic complications of chronic kidney disease -- Hemodialysis -- Peritoneal dialysis -- Outcomes of kidney replacement therapies -- Selection of prospective kidney transplant recipients and donors -- Posttransplantation monitoring and oucomes -- Immunosuppression in transplantation -- Infectious complications of kidney transplantation -- Pathogenesis of hypertension -- Evaluation and management of hypertension -- Secondary hypertension.
• Edition: 6th ed
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Saunders
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 646 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.6/1; Kidneys -- Diseases; Kidney Diseases; Kidney -- pathology; MEDICAL -- Nephrology; Kidneys -- Diseases; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323186506; 0323186505
• Related ISBNs: 9781455746170; 1455746177
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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