Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney distills the essential clinical information from the latest edition of the seminal text on kidney diseases and their management. Michael R. Clarkson, Ciara Magee, and Barry M. Brenner detail the key pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues in clinical nephrology, including interventional nephrology, endocrine aspects of kidney disease, and plasmapheresis. Diagnose, treat, and manage both common and uncommon disorders. Find clinical knowledge quickly and easily thanks to convenient tables throughout the text. Choose the best option of the many techniques available through discussions of indications for laboratory tests and imaging studies. Enhance your clinical acumen with coverage of new topics such as risk factors and kidney disease, nephron endowment, interventional nephrology, plasmapheresis, xenotransplantation, stem cells in renal biology and medicine, and more. Stay current thanks to two new sections—Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Kidney Disease and Frontiers in Kidney Disease—that include topics such as stem cell and genomics.
Companion v. to: Brenner and Rector's the kidney / [edited by] Barry M. Brenner. 7th ed. c2004.
Own the ultimate nephrology library...and save more than $65.00! This collection of resources encompasses all of today's best clinical knowledge, written by many of the world's most noted authorities on kidney disease.
White coat hypertension vs. normotension Study name Statistics for each study Hazard ratio and 95% CI Hazard Lower Upper Z P ratio limit limit value value Verdecchia 1994 1.170 0.253 5.402 0.201 0.841 Kario 2001 0.760 0.164 3.529 J0.350 ...
This latest edition continues to provide comprehensive, exhaustive, and authoritative coverage of nephrology--both the underlying basic science and pathophysiology as well as diagnosis and management of renal diseases and related conditions ...
Chapter 21 Aldridge MD: How do families adjust to having a child with chronic kidney failure? A systematic review, Nephrology Nursing Journal 35(2):157–162, 2008. Chand DH, Swartz S, Tuchman S, Valentini RP, Somers MJ: Dialysis in ...
With its concise, user-friendly outline format, this handy pocket guide is the indispensable consultant for fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disturbances and how they relate to patient care.
... among others but have yet to be incorporated into guidelines or integrated into routine clinical practice for the diagnosis or management ... defining, and managing the disease, as well as variation in medical coding of the disease.
We analyzed the uniqueness of the laboratory tests ordered per patient, e.g. what percentage of patients had perfectly unique laboratory tests different from all other patients (Figure 3). This corresponds to the ability to perfectly ...
The revised and updated 2nd Edition provides a logical, practical framework for managing patients with hypertension. Today's leading experts discuss all aspects of the field-from pathophysiology, pharmacological treatments, and lifestyle...
... MD Murray Rosenberg Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York Hepatitis B– and HIV-Related Renal Diseases Paul E. Klotman, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New ...