Primer on kidney diseases. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Primer on kidney diseases (Online)
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Arthur Greenberg ; associate editors, Alfred K. Cheung [and others].
• Other Names: Greenberg, Arthur, 1950-; Cheung, Alfred K; MD Consult LLC.
• Contents: I. Structure and function of the kidneys and their clinical assessment -- Overview of kidney function and structure -- Clinical evaluation of kidney function -- Urinalysis -- Hematuria and proteinuria -- Imaging the kidneys -- II. Acid-base, fluid, and electrolyte disorders -- Hyponatremia and hyposmolar disorders -- Hypernatremia -- Metabolic acidosis -- Metabolic alkalosis -- Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis -- Approach to acid-base disorders -- Disorders of potassium metabolism -- Disorders o calcium and phosphorus -- Disorders of magnesium homeostasis -- Edema and the clinical use of diuretics -- III. Glomerular diseases -- Glomerular clinicopathologic syndromes -- Minimal change nephrotic syndrome -- Focal segmantal glomerulosclerosis -- Membranous nephropathy -- Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and related disorders -- Goodpasture's Syndrome and other anti-glomerular basement membrane disease -- IV. The Kidney in systemic disease -- Postinfectious glomerulonephritis -- Kidney involvement in systemic vasculitis -- Renal manifestations of systemic Lupus-erythematosus -- Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy -- Management of diabetic nephropathy -- Dysproteinemias and amyloidosis -- Thrombolic microangiopathies -- Kidney disorders in human immunodeficiency virus infection -- Kidney function in congestive heart failure -- Renal function in liver disease. V. Drugs and the kidney -- Pathophysiology of acute kidney injury -- Clinical approach to the diagnosis of acute renal failure -- Kidney function impairment caused by? -- therapeutic agents -- Cholesterol atheroembolic kidney disease -- Myoglobinuric and hemoglobinuric acute kidney injury -- Management of acute kidney injury -- VI. Drugs and the kidney -- Analgesics? and the kidney -- Principles of drug therapy in patients with reduced kidney function -- VII. Hereditary kidney disorders -- Genetically based renal transport disorders -- Sickle cell nephropathy -- Polycystic and other cyctic kidney diseases -- Nephronophthisis and medullary cystic kidney? disease -- Alport's syndrome and related disorders -- VIII. Tubulointerstitial nephropathies and disorders of the urinary tract -- Acute and chronic Tubulointerstitial disease? -- Obstructive uropathy -- Nephrolithiasis -- Urinary tract infection. IX. The kidney in special circumstances -- the kidney in infants and children -- The kidney in pretgnancy -- The kidney in aging -- X. Chronic kidney disease and its therapy -- Pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease -- Staging and management of chronic kidney disease -- Hemodialysis and hemofiltration -- Peritoneal dialysis -- Outcome of end-stage renal disease therapies --Nutrition and kidney disease -- Bone disorders in chronic kidney disease? -- Cardiac function and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease -- Hematologic manifestations of chronic kidney disease -- Endocrine and neurologic manifestations of chronic kidney disease -- Selection of prospective kidney transplant recipients -- Post-transplantation monitoring and outcomes -- XI. Hypertension -- Pathogenesis of hypertension -- evaluation and management of hypertension -- secondary hypertension.
• Edition: 5th ed
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier National Kidney Foundation
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 594 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.6/1; Kidneys -- Diseases; Nephrology; Kidney Diseases; Kidney -- pathology; MEDICAL -- Nephrology; Kidneys -- Diseases; Nephrology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781437721102; 1437721109; 9781416051855; 1416051856
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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