Book[edited by] Scott J. Gilbert, Daniel E. Weiner ; associate editors, Debbie S. Gipson, Mark A. Perazella, Marcello Tonelli.
Contents:
Overview of kidney function and structure
Kidney development
Assessment of glomerular filtration rate in acute and chronic settings
Urinalysis and urine microscopy
Hematuria and proteinuria
Kidney imaging
Hyponatremia and hypoosmolar disorders
Hypernatremia
Edema and the clinical use of diuretics
Disorders of potassium metabolism
Disorders of mineral matabolism: calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium
Approach to acid-base disorders
Metabolic acidosis
Metabolis alkalosis
Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis
Glomerular clinicopathologic syndromes
Minimal change disease
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Membranous nephropathy
Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and related disorders
Goodpasture syndrome and other antiglomerular basement membrane diseases
Postinfectious glomerulonephritis
Kidney involvement in systemic vasculitis
Kidney manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus
Pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of diabetic nephropathy
Dysproteinemias and amyloidosis
Thrombotic microangiopathies
Viral nephropathies: human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus and hepatitis B virus
Acute cardiorenal syndrome
Hepatorenal syndrome and other liver-related kidney deseases
Kidney incancers
Pathophysiology of acute kidney injury
Clinical approach to the diagnosis of acute kidney injury
Acute tubular injury and tubular necrosis
Acute interstitial nephritis
Management of acute kidney injury
Kidney disease causes by therapeutic agents
Principles of drug therapy in patients with reduced kidney function
Genetically based renal transport disorders
Sickle cell nephropathy
Polycystic and other cystic kidney diseases
Nephronophthisis and medullary cystic kidney disease
Alport syndrome and related disorders
Fabry diseases
Chronic tubulointerstitial disease
Obstructive uropathy
Nephrolithiasis
Urinary tract infection and pylenonephritis
Kidney in infants and children
Kidney in pregnancy
Kidney disease in the elderly
Pathophysiology of chronic kidney diseases
Staging and management of chronic kidney disease
Nutrition and kidney diseases
Bone disorders in chronic kidney disease
Cardiac function and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease
Anemia and other hematologic complications of chronic kidney disease
Hemodialysis
Peritoneal dialysis
Outcomes of kidney replacement therapies
Selection of prospective kidney transplant recipients and donors
Posttransplantation monitoring and oucomes
Immunosuppression in transplantation
Infectious complications of kidney transplantation
Pathogenesis of hypertension
Evaluation and management of hypertension
Secondary hypertension.