Clinical Cases in Kidney Disease
1st Edition
0074717804
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9780074717806
© 2008 | Published: February 5, 2008
This book explores important clinical problems in general nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, using a case-based approach. Together the 32 chapters form a comprehensive collection of clinical vignettes in renal medicine. Each chapter covers a…
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SECTION A- Fluids and Electrolytes
1. Hyponatraemia
Zol Endre
2. Acid Base Disturbance
David Harris
3. Hypokalaemia and Metabolic Alkalosis
David Johnson
SECTION B General Nephrology
4. Renal Mass
Gopi Rangan
5. Haematuria
Gopi Rangan
6. Urinary Tract Infection
Annemarie Hennessy
7. Resistant Hypertension
Paulo Ferrrari
8. Hypertension in Pregnancy
George Mangos & Mark Brown
9. Proteinuria
Carol Pollock
10. Oedema and Nephrotic Syndrome
Vincent Lee
11. Progressive Chronic Renal Disease
Rob MacGinley
12. Cardiovascular Mortality
Grahame Elder
13. Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Grahame Elder
14. Renal Vascular Disease
John Kelly
15. Renal Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosis
Randall Faull
16. Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis
Lena Succar & Gopi Rangan
17. Acute Renal Failure and Rhabdomyolysis
Vincent Lee
18. Acute Renal Failure and Drug-Induced Nephrotoxicity
Rob Walker
SECTION C Haemodialysis
19. Dialysis Hypotension
Carmel Hawley
20. Haemodialysis Adequacy
Peter Kerr
21. Access Insufficiency
Kevan Polkinghorne
22. Access Infection
Kevan Polkinghorne
SECTION D – Peritoneal Dialysis
23. Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy
Fiona Brown
24. Cloudy Bag
Kamal Sud
25. Ultrafiltration Failure
Kamal Sud
SECTION E – Transplantation
26. Live Kidney Donation
Nikky Isbel
27. Acute Transplant Dysfunction
Nick Cross
28. HLA Sensitisation and anti-HLA Antibodies
Shlomo Cohney
29. Infection in the Immunocompromised Host
Omar Kaisar & Randall Faull
30. Post Transplant Malignancy
KM Murali & Angela Webster
31. Other Complications of Immunosuppression
John Kanellis
32. Chronic Allograft Dysfunction
Steve Chadban
This book explores important clinical problems in general nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, using a case-based approach. Together the 32 chapters form a comprehensive collection of clinical vignettes in renal medicine. Each chapter covers a separate clinical problem, posing multiple-choice questions and providing a detailed explanation for each. Clinical Pearls highlight the key issues.
Each graded into three disctinct levels, to provide pertinent information tailored to the reader's knowledge level.