Nephropathy: Diagnosis and Treatment

$415.00

Stephen Fava (Editor)
Diabetes & Endocrine Centre, Department of Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, Tal-Qroqq, Msida, Malta

Series: Nephrology Research and Clinical Developments
BISAC: MED055000

This book is intended for use by nephrologists, internists, hospitalists, trainees in these specialties and indeed anyone interested in renal medicine. It contains top-class authoritative and up-to-date reviews by internationally renowned experts coming from some of the best nephrology centres in the world.

It covers the diagnosis, causes and management of acute kidney injury. It also includes a discussion of the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, including the use of simple clinical and laboratory data, imaging, proteinomics and renal biopsy. It reviews the general management of chronic kidney disease, including an in-depth analysis of kidney transplant immunology. The epidemiology, mechanisms, diagnosis, prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in renal patients are also dealt with in a dedicated chapter. There are also separate chapters on each of the main causes of chronic kidney disease, including hypertensive nephropathy, diabetic nephropathy, renovascular disease, nephropathy associated with autoimmune disease, primary nephriditis, and contrast- and lithium- induced nephropathies. These chapters include a discussion of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and, where appropriate interventions to prevent or slow disease progression. The expanding data on the role of genetic factors in diabetic nephropathy are also discussed. Finally special issues regarding renal disease in pregnancy are also discussed.

The book is therefore a comprehensive, authoritative text with clear explanation of even the most complex topics. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Acute Kidney Injury
(Atul Sajgure, Sahyadri Specialty Hospital, Pune, Maharastra, INDIA;
Devasmita Choudhury, UT Southwestern Medical School & Director In-Center and Home Dialysis, VA North Texas Healthcare System, Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas TX, USA)

2. Identification and Evaluation of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
(Fiona Gifford, Nephrology and General Medicine, Glasgow, UK; Colin Geddes, Western Infirmary Glasgow and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK)

3. Imaging in Kidney Disease
(Kelvin Cortis, Luise Reichmuth, Adrian Mizzi, Anthony Samuel, Nuclear Medicine, Mark Anthony Aquilina, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging Department, Mater Dei Hospital Malta)

4. Proteinomics in the Diagnosis of Kidney Disease
(Ole Torffvitt, University of Lund, Sweden)

5. Urinary Smad 1 as a biomarker in Diabetic Nephropathy
(Tatsuya Tominaga, Hideharu Abe, Akira Mima, Kojiro Nagai, Toshio Doi and Takeshi Matsubara, Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; Department of Nephrology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan)

6. Kidney Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Renal Disease
(Noel Gatt and Dr. K. Padmini Prasad, Histopathology Department, St. James University Hospital; Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds University)
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7. Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease
(Rajeev Raghavan, Jenny S. Pan and Garabed Eknoyan, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,Texas)

8. Kidney Transplantation Immunology
(Claire Kennedy, Nephrology, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland and Dr Michael Clarkson, Cardiac Renal Centre, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland)

9. Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Risk
(Caroline Jane Magri, Department of Cardiac Services, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta & University of Malta Medical School, Malta; Stephen Fava, Diabetes & Endocrine Centre, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta & University of Malta, Malta)

10. Arterial Hypertension and the Kidneys
(Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Lino Merlino, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Paolo Manunta, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele – OU Nephrology and Dialysis, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

11. Diagnosis, Prevention and Management of Diabetic Nephropathy
(Caroline Jane Magri, Department of Cardiac Services, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta & University of Malta Medical School, Malta; Stephen Fava, Diabetes & Endocrine Centre, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta & University of Malta, Malta)

12. Genetics Studies of Diabetic Nephropathy
(Harvest F. Gu, Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

13. Renovascular Disease
(James Ritchie & Phil Kalra, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK)

14. Primary Glomeronephritis
(Emanuel Farrugia, Nephrology Division, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta)

15. Renal Disease Associated with Autoimmune Disease
(Kevin Davies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK)

16. Contrast-Induced Nephropathy
(Ulla Ludwig and Frieder Keller, Nephrology Division, Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Center of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany)

17. Lithium-Induced Nephropathies
(Thomas J Raedler, Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada & Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
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18. Renal Disease in Pregnancy
(Sajeda Youssouf, John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester, UK; Sue Carr,
John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester, UK)

Index

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