Renal pathophysiology: the essentials

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This text offers medical students a case-based approach to learning the mechanisms of renal disease. Each chapter covers a disease, beginning with a patient case and followed by a discussion of the pathophysiology of the disease. Issues of differential diagnosis and therapy are linked to pathophysiologic mechanisms. Short questions interspersed throughout the text require students to apply their knowledge. Detailed answers to the questions are included. New to this edition: Full-color artwork a…

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Full title :Renal pathophysiology : the essentials / Helmut G. Rennke, M.D., professor of pathology, Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Bradley M. Denker, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chief of nephrology, Harvard-Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014
Edition:Fourth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:v, 380 pages : : color illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781451173383, 1451173385
oclc:ocn830030356
LC Classification:RC903.9
Dewey Decimal:616.6/1

Review of renal physiology -- Regulation of salt and water balance -- Disorders of water balance: hyponatremia, hypernatremia, and polyuria -- Edematous states and the use of diuretics -- Acid-base physiology and metabolic alkalosis -- Metabolic acidosis -- Disorders of potassium balance -- Urinalysis and approach to the patient with renal disease -- Pathogenesis of major glomerular and vascular diseases -- Tubulointerstitial diseases -- Acute renal failure -- Progression of chronic renal failure -- Signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure.