Coping with kidney disease

Coping with kidney disease: a 12-step treatment program to help you avoid dialysis

by Walser, Mackenzie

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Presents information for possibly avoiding kidney dialysis through a twelve-step treatment program.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Coping with kidney disease : a 12-step treatment program to help you avoid dialysis / Mackenzie Walser, with Betsy Thorpe, and contributions by Nga Hong Brereton.

Summary

Presents information for possibly avoiding kidney dialysis through a twelve-step treatment program.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
  • Place of Publication:Hoboken, N.J
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2004.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0471543365, 9780471543367
  • oclc:ocm55199623
  • LC Classification:RC902
  • Dewey Decimal:616.6/1

Table of Contents

Part I. Looking at the disease of kidney failure -- Chapter 1. What do kidneys do and what happens when they fail? -- Chapter 2. Are you at risk for kidney failure? -- Chapter 3. Symptoms of kidney failure -- Part II. How to treat kidney failure -- Chapter 4. Treating kidney failure -- Chapter 5. Step one: assess your kidney failure treatment -- Chapter 6. Step two: make life style changes -- Chapter 7. Step three: follow a low-protein diet -- Chapter 8. Step four: treat salt and water problems -- Chapter 9. Step five: regulate your blood pressure -- Chapter 10. Step six: treat acidosis -- Chapter 11. Step seven: treat anemia and iron deficiency -- Chapter 12. Step eight: treat potassium problems -- Chapter 13. Step nine: Treat calcium and phosphate problems -- Chapter 14. Step ten: treat gout and uric acid problems -- Chapter 15. Step eleven: treat your high cholesterol -- Chapter 16. Step twelve: knowing the medication that slows the progression of renal failure -- Part III. Tracking kidney failure, dialysis, transplanst, and more -- Chapter 17. Keeping close watch on your kidney failure -- Chapter 18. Dietary treatment of the nephrotic syndrome -- Chapter 19. Safe and unsafe dr…

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Subjects

Kidney Kidney Diseases -- prevention & control Kidneys Kidneys -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Nephrology Reins

Writers

Walser, Mackenzie Brereton, Nga Hong Thorpe, Betsy

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