Kishore Phadke • Paul Goodyer Martin Bitzan Editors 2014 This manual does not want to replace standard textbooks of nephrology or pediatric nephrology. Rather, it offers a first, quick and practical approach for the care of children with kidney disease. It is meant to serve practitioners, trainees, pediatricians, general physicians, and other health care professionals.
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Aftab S. Chishti • Shumyle Alam Stefan G. Kiessling Editors 2014 Physicians have always been fascinated by the complexity and intricacy of fetal organogenesis including the development of the genitourinary tract. The individual developmental stages, though complicated and still incompletely understood, usually occur without interruptions. On the other hand, newborns can face a wide variety […]
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Lilach O. Lerman • Stephen C. Textor Editors 2014 This is an exciting time for those working in the field of kidney vascular injury and repair. Despite, or perhaps partly because of, major advances in imaging diagnosis and therapy, large vessel occlusive disease of the renal arteries continues to pose major clinical challenges and can […]
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Michael Haase • Anja Haase-Fielitz Editors 2014
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Axel S. Merseburger • Markus A. Kuczyk Judd W. Moul Editors 2014
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Gopal H. Badlani Editor 2014 Pelvic floor dysfunction is a major healthcare problem, affecting millions of women throughout the world. Incontinence has a larger economic impact than many chronic conditions and diseases. One in every nine American women will undergo surgery for a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, with 30 % of those women […]
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Adrian Covic • Mehmet Kanbay Edgar V. Lerma Editors 2014 For more than 100 years, it has been recognized that lipids play an important role in the expansion of cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, therapeutic strategies targeting hyperlipidemia/dyslipidemia have had a profound impact on decreasing cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in various disease populations. In chronic kidney disease, […]
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Michael E. Moran 2014 A Comprehensive History
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Eisei Noiri Norio Hanafusa Editors 2014 The word “apheresis” which is of Greek origin, means “taking away” in English. Apheresis is a mode of therapy specifying a certain target and removing it from the body. Given the target of immunoglobulin, antibodies, or virus particles, apheresis constitutes a blood purification therapy that is presumably antithetical to hemodialysis, which is the most […]
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Mustafa Arici Editor 2014 A Clinician’s Guide I am very pleased to offer the first edition of Management of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Clinician’s Guide . Actually, there are many textbooks devoted to general nephrology or books that are particularly focused on dialysis or renal transplantation. However, there is a real deficiency of books devoted particularly to the care […]
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