Nephrology category: 321 books
Assessment of Urinary Sediment by Electron Microscopy
Applications in Renal Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Anil K. Mandai, M.D., is one of the trailblazers in the use of the transmission electron microscope in the study of the urinary sediment. In this book, he reviews his extensive efforts to tie his vast clinical expe rience to his elegant basic research with the electron microscope. The pictures are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Renal transplantation is now accepted as the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal failure. During the last decade both patients and graft survival rates have increased significantly and when assessed at one year are now greater than 90% and 80% respectively. These marked improvements...
by Agostino Virdis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This guide is structured to assist physicians in the management of those hypertensive patients who present with specific comorbidities, such as diabetes, systolic dysfunction, obesity, renal disease, or previous cardiac events, often associated with hypertension. The clinical cases contained in this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The world community of pediatric nephrologists has grown to a great number of active members. A number of them are interested in problems of renal insufficiency and kidney replacement therapy. Therefore, many vital meetings concerning this vibrant speciality have been included in international pediatric...
CAPD in Children
First International Symposium on CAPD in Children Held May 14-15, 1984 at Heidelberg, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (often abbreviated to SLE or lupus) is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body, causing the immune system to attack the body's cells and tissue, and resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. This new addition to the Oxford Rheumatology Library...
The Juxtaglomerular Apparatus
Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Knowledge of the juxtaglomerular apparatus (JGA) of the kidney and of the synthesis and secretion of renin has increased to such an extent over the past few years that it is now appropriate to summarize this knowledge in a monograph on the JGA, the first of its kind. It was the authors' special concern...
Arteriovenous Hemofiltration
A Kidney Replacement Therapy for the Intensive Care Unit
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
As the number of people aged 65 years and above rises, physicians are increasingly confronted by elderly patients with impaired renal function, altered drug metabolism and multiple comorbidities. This book examines in detail the nature of renal injury in the elderly and its optimal management. A wide...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The provision of optimal dialysis therapy to children requires a thorough understanding of the multi-disciplinary manner in which the pediatric patient is affected by renal insufficiency. Knowledge of the technical aspects of peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Blood pressure control is central to all bodily functions. There are many points in the multifaceted cybernetic system wherein hypertension may be produced. Hypertension is a 'young' disorder whose existence has been known for less than a century. It is not only extremely prevalent among every popula...
Kidney in Essential Hypertension
Proceedings of the Course on the Kidney in Essential Hypertension held at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18–19, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The kidney, similar to the heart, plays a three-fold role in essential hypertension. First, it participates in the patho genesis of arterial hypertension. Second, it suffers as a target organ of long-standing hypertension, and third, it experiences the effects of antihypertensive therapy. Perhaps...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent experimental and clinical research performed by outstanding authorities has enabled us to characterize fundamental processes that govern the regulation of salt and water content of the body. Their results have provided not only an important gain of insight into mechanisms at the cellular level...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
We have witnessed a rapid development within the field of the kidney and hypertension in diabetes mellitus. A significant amount of work within the traditional areas has been published, and several new dimensions are now being developed, mostly in the experimental setting. These dimensions are discussed...