P. Nagaraja Rao • Glenn M. Preminger John P. Kavanagh Editors 2011 The surgical management of urinary stone disease has advanced quite dramatically since the introduction of shock wave lithotripsy (SWL), percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), ureteroscopy (URS), and more recently retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) with small, flexible fiber-optic ureteroscopes.
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Toshio Miyata l Kai-Uwe Eckardt Masaomi Nangaku Editors 2011 Broad derangements of oxygen metabolism, such as oxidative stress and hypoxia, have been implicated in the genesis of kidney disease, independently of hemodynamic and metabolic abnormalities. They further impact various biological reactions linked to oxygen metabolism, such as nitrosative stress, advanced glycation, carbonyl stress, and endoplasmic reticulum stress.
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T.K. Jha · E. Noiri Editors 2011 One of the most important challenges for third world countries is to educate and support their inhabitants to maintain an independent and comfortable lifestyle. Difficult enough when there is no health problem, but life-threatening infectious diseases are more prevalent in the tropical zone than in more temperate climates.
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Dheeraj K. Rajan Editor 2011 Within the last decade, we have seen a rapid expansion and innovation in dialysis interventions throughout the world and in particular North America. Growth has been fuelled by an aging population, healthcare advances that have prolonged life, and a greater incidence of certain disease states particularly diabetes.
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Manfred Wick Wulf Pinggera Paul Lehmann 2011 Concepts in the anemias of malignancies and renal and rheumatoid diseases Anemias are a worldwide problem. Severe anemia aff ects mainly older women and men. Th e WHO defi nes anemia as a hemoglobin concentration of less than 12 g/dL in women and less than 13 g/dL in men (World Health […]
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Edited by JOSEPH T. FLYNN JULIE R. INGELFINGER RONALD J. PORTMAN 2011 Interest in pediatric hypertension dates back nearly half a century, when it was first recognized that a small percentage of children and adolescents had elevated blood pressure — and in those days, the same normal values for adult blood pressure were utilized in children!
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Emilio Quaia (Ed.) 2011 The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the embryology, normal anatomy, and of the pathology of the kidney and the upper urinary tract (renal pelvis and upper ureter) according to the modern diagnostic imaging techniques.
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Edited by VENKATESH AIYAGARI PHILIP B. GORELICK 2011 Hypertension and Stroke: Pathophysiology and Management reviews the pathophysiologic relationship between hypertension and cerebrovascular disease and the management of blood pressure in a variety of settings such as primary stroke prevention, acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, secondary stroke prevention, and vascular cognitive impairment.
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Martin F. Fromm l Richard B. Kim Editors 2011 In the past 15 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the extent of our knowledge regarding the importance of transporter proteins that govern drug disposition and response. For example, the human multidrug and toxin extrusion protein 1, which is important for the elimination of organic cations and […]
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Christopher J. Lote 2012 The first edition of this book appeared in 1982. In the preface to that first edition, I wrote “This book is based on the lecture course in renal physiology which I give to medical students at the University of Birmingham.
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