Ebook: Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease
- Tags: Nephrology, Internal Medicine
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art information on the diagnosis, treatment, classification and pathogenesis of glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases. Chapters feature various clinical scenarios and are authored by a team of renowned experts in the field. Experienced clinicians and trainees alike will find this authoritative reference to be a valuable resource and contribution to the literature.
Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art information on the diagnosis, treatment, classification and pathogenesis of glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases. Chapters feature various clinical scenarios and are authored by a team of renowned experts in the field. Experienced clinicians and trainees alike will find this authoritative reference to be a valuable resource and contribution to the literature.
Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art information on the diagnosis, treatment, classification and pathogenesis of glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases. Chapters feature various clinical scenarios and are authored by a team of renowned experts in the field. Experienced clinicians and trainees alike will find this authoritative reference to be a valuable resource and contribution to the literature.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
General Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Glomerular Diseases....Pages 1-13
Minimal Change Disease in Adults....Pages 15-21
Childhood Onset Nephrotic Syndrome....Pages 23-31
Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis....Pages 33-49
Membranous Nephropathy....Pages 51-75
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis....Pages 77-85
Cryoglobulinemias....Pages 87-103
IgA Nephropathy and Schöenlein-Henoch Purpura Nephritis....Pages 105-124
Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane Disease....Pages 125-135
Pathogenesis and Management of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis....Pages 137-151
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Kidney....Pages 153-181
Tropical Infectious Diseases and the Kidney....Pages 183-208
Glomerular Diseases Associated with HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C Infections....Pages 209-228
Cytomegalovirus, BK, and Other Viral Infections of the Kidney....Pages 229-240
Thrombotic Microangiopathies: Thrombus Formation Due to Common or Related Mechanisms?....Pages 241-248
Thrombotic Microangiopathy Not Associated with the Classic/Idiopathic TTP-HUS....Pages 249-262
Renal Involvement by IgG4-Related Disease....Pages 263-268
The Collagen IV Nephropathies....Pages 269-283
Other Glomerular Diseases....Pages 285-289
Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease....Pages 291-300
Amyloidosis....Pages 301-314
Glomerular Disease in Pregnancy....Pages 315-328
Acute Interstitial Nephritis....Pages 329-339
Chronic Interstitial Nephritis....Pages 341-360
Reflux Nephropathy and Vesicoureteral Reflux....Pages 361-374
Uric Acid and the Kidney....Pages 375-388
Plasmapheresis....Pages 389-403
Back Matter....Pages 405-418