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Book Synopsisstories of postwar nephrology and metabolism. Postwar Uremia is to the nephrologist what the baby is to the nephrology rushed to the fore and supplied nephrologists pediatrician, for it is the final common pathway of literally with such wonderful tools as the flamephotometer, electro- hundreds of disease processes that lead to scarring and destruction of nephrons. . phoresis, microchemistry, immunoassay, sonography, renal biopsy, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and un- We estimate that there are well in excess of 300,000 clear magnetic resonance, and permitted a total integration patients in the world living on the varied methodologies of form, histologic structure, and function. Clinical represented by the three basic forms of substituted kidney nephrology became indeed the real fusion of biochemistry, function-hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and renal physiology, immunology, renal endocrinology, and the transplantation: over 100,000 persons in the United States focus of n
Table of ContentsPart One: Disorders of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance. Part Two: Intrinsic Parenchymal Disease. A: Glomerular. B: Tubulointerstitial. Part Three: Renal Involvement in Systemic Disease. Part Four: Hereditary and Congenital Diseases. Part Five: Neoplasia. Part Six: Chemical and Physical Injuries. Part Seven: Chronic Renal Failure. A: Medical Therapy. B: Peritoneal Dialysis. C: Hemodialysis. D: Transplantation. Part Eight: Hypertension. Part Nine: Urologic Disorders. Index.
