Bookedited by Mark Harber.
Summary: This new edition provides readers with a practice-based approach to all aspects of clinical nephrology. Extensively updated, it offers invaluable practical advice on how to manage specific illnesses and, uniquely, the importance of establishing systems and processes to improve patient safety, enhance the patient pathway and guidance on how to systematically improve clinical governance. A unique feature of this book are the tips and tricks and, suggestions for avoiding common errors based on the vast experience of the authors. In addition, the Editor has collated a list of links to international registries and guidelines as well as selected disease specific organisations, providing both clinicians and patients with access to helpful and recommended resources. Designed and written in a user-friendly fashion, Primer in Nephrology continues to be the definitive reference for practising nephrologists, trainees and non-nephrologist who encounter renal patients in their daily practice.
Contents:
Assessment of the Renal Patient
Urine Analysis - Scott R Henderson and Mark Harber
Imaging in Nephrology
Kidney Biopsy
Acute Kidney Injury: Epidemiology and Assessment
Acute Kidney Injury: Management and Prevention
Acute renal replacement therapy
Hepatorenal syndrome
Common Electrolyte Disorders
Acid Base Disorders
Diagnosis and Investigation of the hypertensive patient
Management of high blood pressure
Podocytopathies
Management of the Nephrotic Patient: The overall approach to the patient with Nephrotic Syndrome (NS)
Management of the Nephrotic Patient: Treatment of ECF volume expansion due to nephrotic syndrome in adults
Minimal Change Disease and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Membranous Nephropathy
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and C3 glomerulopathy
IgA nephropathy and Henoch-Schonleinpurpura
Systemic Small Vessel Vasculitis
Goodpastures or Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease
Systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome & the kidney
Practical immunosuppression guidelines for patients with glomerulonephritis
Infectious disease and the kidney
Blood-borne viruses and the Kidney
Tubulo-Interstitial Nephritis
Rheumatological conditions and the Kidney
Multiple myeloma and the kidney
Amyloidosis
Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Sickle cell disease and other haematological disorders involving the Kidney
Diabetes and the Kidney
Pregnancy and the Kidney
Disease of the Renal Vessels
Urinary tract infection
Renal Stone Disease
Congenital anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract
Acquired Urinary Tract Obstruction
Kidney Cancer
Inherited Renal Tumour Syndromes
Polycystic kidney disease
Other Cystic Kidney Diseases
Genetic disorders of the glomerular basement membrane
Anderson-Fabry disease and other inherited lipid disorders of the kidney
Inherited Metabolic Disease
Dermatology In Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease: Epidemiology and causes
Chronic kidney disease: management
Transition
Anaemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Kidney Disease: Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD)
Chronic Kidney Disease: Cardiovascular Complications
Coagulation in Kidney Disease
Symptom control and palliative care in advanced CKD
Nutrition and Kidney Disease
Pharmacology and the Kidney
Prevention of Infection in Kidney Patients
Setting up and running a Haemodialysis Service
Vascular access- dialysis lines
Vascular Access- fistulae and grafts
Complications of maintenance haemodialysis and how to avoid them
Providing a peritoneal dialysis service
Peritoneal Dialysis Prescription
Complications of peritoneal dialysis and how to avoid them
Assessment of the potential transplant donor
Assessment of the Potential Transplant Recipient
Tissue-typing, crossmatch and antibody incompatibility in kidney transplantation
Surgical aspects of kidney and pancreas transplantation
Management of the Acute Transplant
Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplantation
Infectious complications of transplantation
Long Term Management of Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs)
International health partnerships
Appendix. Resources for Patients and Carers and, Physicians
Videos.