Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology 3-Volume Set

by Davison, Alex M.; Cameron, J. Stewart; Grünfeld, Jean-Pierre; Kerr, David N. S.; Ritz, Eberhard; Winearls, Christopher G.

• ISBN13: 9780192624130
• ISBN10: 019262413X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The first edition of the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology established itself as the leading clinical reference text for practicing nephrologists worldwide. The second edition comes five years later, during which time there have been significant advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of renal disease and in therapy. Placing existing treatment on a firm scientific basis or stopping ineffective or dangerous treatment is as important as introducing proven new therapies, and all the contributors have taken this fully into account. During the development of the second edition all the first edition chapters were critically reviewed by practicing nephrologists and their suggestions have been incorporated to make the text even more practically useful and logically arranged. Expert topic editors for pediatrics, pathology, physiology and pharmacology have checked all relevant sections from their own perspective. This edition is the only major textbook of nephrology to be printed in full colour throughout. Reproduction of the histological and clinical illustrations in their natural colours reveals their true significance, and there are numerous new colour illustrations. There are new chapters on: Imaging tactics - a rationale ; Structural basis of glomerular function ; Symptomless patient with abnormal urine ; Immunotactoid (fibrillary) nephritis ; Mechanisms of interstitial disease ; and Host factors in the pathogenesis of urinary tract infection . The sections on acute and chronic renal failure have been reorganized with new chapters on the Epidemiology of acute renal failure , Dialysis and haemoperfusion treatment in acute poisoning , and Genesis of the uraemic syndrome . In addition the chapter on Gastrointestinal effects in chronic renal failure includes a new discussion of the various forms of hepatitis. A new section on Acute renal failure in special settings includes new chapters on pregnancy, tropical illness, and the elderly. In the inherited diseases section there is a new chapter on Inherited disorders of purine metabolism , and in the structural diseases section a new chapter on Medullary sponge kidney . The section on malignant disease has new chapters on Tumours of the bladder , and Tumours of the prostate . The result is an outstanding up- to-date, international clinical text which no clinical nephrologist can afford to be without.

Table of Contents

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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