Oxford desk reference

Oxford desk reference: nephrology

by Barratt, Jonathan

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In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicians is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice. While it is clearly helpful to have research-based guidelines and protocols to draw upon, it is not always easy to access this information particularly at the time when it is needed most, such as on a ward round or in a busy outpatient clinic. These evidence-based guidelines, produced by nationalorganisations (T…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Oxford desk reference : nephrology / Jonathan Barratt, Kevin Harris and Peter Topham.

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In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicians is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice. While it is clearly helpful to have research-based guidelines and protocols to draw upon, it is not always easy to access this information particularly at the time when it is needed most, such as on a ward round or in a busy outpatient clinic. These evidence-based guidelines, produced by nationalorganisations (The Renal Association, British Hypertension Society, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excell.

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  • Publication Date:2009.

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10.6 Hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (777 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0191725730, 9780191725739, 1283579731, 9781283579735, 9786613892188, 6613892181, 0191551988, 9780191551987
  • oclc:on1306549436
  • LC Classification:RC903
  • Dewey Decimal:616.6/1

Table of Contents

1 Assessment of renal disease; 1.1 History and clinical examination of patients with renal disease; 1.2 Urinalysis and microscopy; 1.3 Clinical assessment of renal function; 1.4 Renal function in the newborn infant; 1.5 The aging kidney; 1.6 Imaging in renal disease; 1.7 Renal biopsy; 1.8 Immunological investigation of renal disease; 2 Fluid and electrolyte disorders; 2.1 Hypo-/hypernatremia: disorders of water balance; 2.2 Hypo-/hyperkalemia; 2.3 Hypo-/hypercalcemia; 2.4 Hypo-/hyperphosphatemia; 2.5 Hypo-/hypermagnesemia; 2.6 Clinical acid-base disorders; 3 Glomerular disease

3.1 Proteinuria and/or hematuria3.2 Nephrotic syndrome; 3.3 Minimal change disease; 3.4 Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; 3.5 Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and Henoch-Schönlein purpura; 3.6 Membranous nephropathy; 3.7 Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis; 3.8 Acute endocapillary glomerulonephritis; 3.9 Crescentic glomerulonephritis; 3.10 Antiglomerular basement membrane (Goodpasture's) disease; 3.11 Infection-related glomerulonephritis; 3.12 Malignancy-associated glomerular disease; 3.13 Glomerular disease in the tropics; 4 The kidney in systemic disease; 4.1 Diabetes mellitus

4.2 Amyloid and immunotactoi…

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