Assessment of the patient with renal disease | |
History and clinical examination of the patient with renal disease | |
Urinalysis and microscopy | |
Renal function and testing of function | |
Renal function in the newborn infant | |
Renal function in the elderly | |
Visualizing the kidney | |
Conventional uroradiology and contrast media | |
Renal ultrasonography (including Doppler echography) | |
Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the kidney and upper urinary tract | |
Renal angiography | |
Nuclear imaging in nephrology | |
Urology imaging tactics | |
Renal biopsy: performance and interpretation | |
Fluid, electrolyte, and divalent ion disorders | |
Hyper-hyponatraemia: disorders of water balance | |
Hypercalcaemia and hypocalcaemia | |
Hypo- and hyperphosphataemia | |
Magnesium | |
Clinical acid-based disorders | |
The patient with glomerular disease | |
The renal glomerulus - the structural basis of ultrafiltration | |
Mechanisms of glomerular inflammation | |
The patient with proteinuria and/or haematuria | |
The nephrotic syndrome: management, complications, and pathophysiology | |
Minimal changes and focal glomerular sclerosis | |
IgA nephropathies | |
Membranous nephropathy | |
Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis | |
Acute endocapillary glomerulonephritis | |
Crescentic glomerulonephritis | |
Antiglomerular basement membrane disease | |
Infection-related glomerulonephritis | |
Malignancy-associated glomerular disease | |
Glomerular disease in the tropics | |
The kidney in systemic disease | |
The patient with diabetes mellitus | |
The patient with amyloidosis | |
Immunotactoid glomerulopathy ('fibrillary' nephritis) | |
Kidney involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias | |
Sarcoidosis | |
Vasculitis | |
Pathogenesis of angiitis | |
The nephritis of Henoch-Schonlein purpura | |
Systemic vasculitis | |
The patient with mixed cryoglobulinaemia and hepatitis C virus infection | |
Systemic lupus erythematosus | |
the pathogenesis of systemic lupus | |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (clinical) | |
Scleroderma-systemic sclerosis | |
Rheumatoid arthritis, mixed connective disease and polymyositis | |
Sjogren's syndrome and overlap syndromes | |
The patient with sickle cell disease | |
The patient with tubular disease | |
Fanconi syndrome | |
Isolated defects of tubular function | |
Renal tubular acidosis | |
Hypokalemic tubular disorders: the hyperprostaglandin E syndrome and Gitelman-Bartter syndrome | |
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus | |
The patient with chronic interstitial disease | |
Mechanisms of interstitial inflammation | |
Analgesic nephropathy | |
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the kidney | |
Uric acid and the kidney | |
Heavy metals and the kidney | |
Radiation nephritis | |
Lithium | |
Balkan nephropathy | |
The patient with urinary tract infection | |
Microbiology and defences of the urinary tract | |
Lower and upper urinary tract infection in the adult | |
Urinary tract infection in infancy and childhood | |
Renal tuberculosis | |
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