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- BookHelmut G. Rennke, M.D., professor of pathology, ... Show More Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Bradley M. Denker, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chief of nephrology, Harvard-Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, Massachusetts.Summary: This text offers medical students a case-based approach to learning the mechanisms of renal disease. Each chapter covers a disease, beginning with a patient case and followed by a discussion of the pathophysiology of the disease. Issues of differential diagnosis and therapy are linked to pathophysiologic mechanisms. Short questions interspersed throughout the text require students to apply their knowledge. Detailed answers to the questions are included. New to this edition: Full-color artwork and design. New color photomicrographs of clinical conditions. Additional end-of-chapter summaries. Up-to-date information based on new medical findings.
Contents:
Review of renal physiology
Regulation of salt and water balance
Disorders of water balance: hyponatremia, hypernatremia, and polyuria
Edematous states and the use of diuretics
Acid-base physiology and metabolic alkalosis
Metabolic acidosis
Disorders of potassium balance
Urinalysis and approach to the patient with renal disease
Pathogenesis of major glomerular and vascular diseases
Tubulointerstitial diseases
Acute renal failure
Progression of chronic renal failure
Signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure.Digital Access LWW Health Library (Medical Education) 2014