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The International Yearbook of Nephrology presents the most up-to-date reviews of modern nephrology available. A comprehensive selection of topics is covered, highlighting the issues currently of relevance to all clinical nephrologists. Due to the rapid publication of reviews they are more current than any found in a nephrology textbook. The editorial board has again assembled an impressive collection of authors for each topic providing an objective review of the international literature and offering personal views and comments, and a complete list of references. This is an essential annual publication for every clinical nephrologist wishing to keep informed of advances in current topics of hot debate in clinical nephrology.

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International Yearbook of Nephrology 1989

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Clinical Nephrology in Medical Practice

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Blackwell Science (January 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0632031670
ISBN-13: 978-0632031672

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This new text is directed to final year medical students, post graduate trainees and renal nurses and is designed to provide a concise and accessible introduction to renal medicine with a strong clinical emphasis. The book is divided into three sections which cover renal structure and function, clinical presentation, and specific renal diseases. The first section discusses renal anatomy and physiology, along with the clinical methods of assessment of structure and function and a single chapter is devoted to discussion of renal response to damage. Section Two consists of a patient-oriented approach to renal disease, commencing with history taking and examination of the patient, followed by discussion of approaches to the more common clinical syndromes which present in patients with renal disease.

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Kidney Research: Experimental Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Humana Press; 1 edition (December 4, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588299457
ISBN-13: 978-1588299451

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As the expense of treating a growing number of end-stage kidney disease patients increases, greater attention has been paid to prevention and early treatment. The study of renal disease, however, suffers due to the complex nature of renal anatomy and physiology and the plethora of different cell types found in the kidney. In Kidney Research: Experimental Protocols, top experts in the field seek to aid researchers by providing a number of specialized techniques developed to examine this intricate system. Through both well-established and novel methods, this volume explores the preparation and culture of the main cell types used to study renal disease mechanisms, the common animal models used to mimic the various forms of human renal disease, and specific applications and techniques used in vivo and in vitro. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, the chapters contain step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Essential and cutting-edge, Kidney Research: Experimental Protocols delivers invaluable guidance to new and experienced laboratory researchers delving into the sophisticated study of the kidney.

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Cardiorenal Syndrome: Mechanisms, Risk and Treatment

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (June 27, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 884701462X
ISBN-13: 978-8847014626

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Chronic kidney disease with a worldwide prevalence of 10% in the general population is emerging as a major public health priority. Renal dysfunction is associated with a high risk for cardiovascular complications. The relationship between renal insufficiency and cardiovascular disease, termed the cardiorenal syndrome exists whether impairment of renal function is a consequence of primary renal parenchymal disease or primary heart disease.

Several pathophysiologic mechanisms have been postulated to explain the relationship between renal dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Recent studies indicate an integrated response of the vascular smooth muscles and glomerular mesangial cells to traditional and uremia related cardiovascular risk factors. Traditional risk factors can incite renal impairment and cardiac damage. As renal function deteriorates, uremia-related risk factors play an increasing role both in reduction in glomerular filtration rate and cardiovascular damage. Several uremia related factors such as uncontrolled hypertension, disturbed glucose insulin metabolism, microalbuminuria, phosphate retention, secondary hyperparathyroidism, myocardial and vascular calcification, hypertensive-uremic cardiomyopathy, inflammation, oxidant injury, and neurohormonal dysregulation have been implicated in the pathogenesis of the cardiorenal syndrome. Recent data suggest that management of the cardiorenal syndrome requires aggressive control of traditional risk factors as well novel approaches to prevent or reverse uremia –related processes.

This book provides a comprehensive update analysis of our current understanding of the cardiorenal syndrome including epidemiology, pathophysiologic mechanisms, and therapeutic approaches.

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Core Curriculum for Nephrology Nursing

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Hardcover: 1099 pages
Publisher: American Nephrology Nurses’ Association; 5 edition (January 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979502926
ISBN-13: 978-0979502927

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This hardback edition of The Core Curriculum is divided into three main sections and 31 chapters:

Section 1, Child, Family, and Societal Factors covers the concept(s) of (a) anatomic structures and physiologic, psychologic, and spiritual processes in neonates, infants, children, and adolescents; (b) health behavior; (c) separation, loss, and bereavement; and (d) economic, social, and political influences.

Section 2, Clinical Problems or Areas, covers the concepts of (a) safety and injury prevention; (b) children with acute illness or injuries and their families; and (c) children with a chronic condition, disability, or special health need and their families.

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Liver Cirrhosis and its Development

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Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 31, 2001)
Language: English
ASIN: B001QTVSQE

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Liver cirrhosis is a major clinical problem worldwide and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality from its complications, such as liver cell insufficiency with coagulopathy and hepatic encephalopathy, portal hypertension with ascites and gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatorenal syndrome, HCC development and others. This volume, the proceedings of Falk Symposium 115 held in Basel, Switzerland, October 22-24, 1999 (Part II of the Basel Liver Week 1999; XI International Congress of Liver Diseases) covers our present knowledge of the aetiologies and early stages of liver cirrhosis development. Based on this information, strategies are discussed that are aimed at the prevention, early diagnosis and therapy of chronic liver diseases, thus preventing their progression to cirrhosis and its complications, including HCC development.

The main topics mentioned above are complemented by three state-of-the-art chapters on modern aspects of medicine in general and hepatology in particular as well as their perspectives beyond the year 2000: `Molecular Medicine’, `New Hepatitis Viruses’ and `Genetic Liver Diseases: Diagnosis and Therapy’.

Introductory chapters focusing on the more basic aspects of the biology of live cells as well as on the mechanisms underlying fibrogenesis, cholestasis and inflammation will be followed by a detailed discussion of the clinically most important causes of liver cirrhosis worldwide: hepatitis viruses B, C and D; toxins (alcohol, drugs and others) as well as metabolic liver diseases (haemochromatosis, Wilson disease, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, porphyria cutanea tarda and protoporphyria).

This book, therefore, will interest clinically oriented basic scientists as well as those in clinical practice, givng an update on many aspects of modern hepatology and its perspectives in the next millennium.

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Factors Influencing Mammalian Kidney Development: Implications for Health in Adult Life

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Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 80 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 25, 2008)
Language: English
ASIN: B002IC05VW

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In this monograph the authors have emphasized a number of important concepts in mammalian kidney development. Emphasis has been put on methodology so that the reader can understand how certain results or conclusions were reached and what the optimal methods for reliable results to be obtained are. In addition, as well as descriptions of the morphology there is information on the genetic basis of the structural development. In addition much attention has been paid to how nephron number may be altered by changes in the environment of the developing kidney and to the consequences for the remaining nephron gene expression and kidney function when total nephron number is altered. The consequences for the health of the adult, upon the formation of an adult kidney with altered nephron number and (potentially) gene expression, can be quite serious. The epigenetic mechanisms by which such changes can occur are introduced as a very fertile field for future investigation.

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Coding Companion for Urology/Nephrology 2009

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Spiral-bound: 439 pages
Publisher: Ingenix (December 31, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601511736
ISBN-13: 978-1601511737

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Consolidate the coding process with the one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for urology and nephrology. This comprehensive guide includes complete 2009 CPTÂ® and ICD-9-CM code sets specific to urology and nephrology in an easy-to-use, one-page format. Each page has the CPTÂ® code with its official description, a detailed illustration, and the one-page format includes lay descriptions, coding tips, terminology, cross coding and national Medicare relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.

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Renal Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

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Hardcover: 145 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (October 7, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1437713858
ISBN-13: 978-1437713855

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This new issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Edgar Lerma, examines critical aspects of renal disease from anatomic and physiologic changes in the aging kidney, to ethical issues in elderly with patients with renal disease. Authors from the United States and abroad cover topics in this issue such as: drug dosing and the elderly kidney, diabetic nephropathy, renal replacement therapy, glomerular diseases in the elderly, urinary tract infections, obstructive uropathy, and urinary incontinence.

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Radiological Imaging of the Ureter

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Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 360 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 15, 2003)
Language: English
ASIN: B000QFAJYG

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Hopital de Rangueil, France. Text discusses past and present techniques for imaging the ureter. Emphasizes the use of helical computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Also includes discussions on the ureter and its effect on the kidneys. Expanded-outline format.

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