Overview
- Comprehensively reviews all aspects of clinical nephrology from diagnosis to management
- Accessible to a wide audience with extensive tables of differential diagnoses in kidney diseases
- Covers important aspects that can systematically improve renal clinical practice
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Table of contents (98 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assessment of the Renal Patient
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Acid Base and Electrolyte Disorders
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Hypertension and Renovascular Diseases
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About this book
This new edition provides readers with a practice-based approach to all aspects of clinical nephrology. Extensively updated, it offers invaluable practical advice on how to manage specific illnesses and, uniquely, the importance of establishing systems and processes to improve patient safety, enhance the patient pathway and guidance on how to systematically improve clinical governance.
A unique feature of this book are the tips and tricks and, suggestions for avoiding common errors based on the vast experience of the authors. In addition, the Editor has collated a list of links to international registries and guidelines as well as selected disease specific organisations, providing both clinicians and patients with access to helpful and recommended resources.
Designed and written in a user-friendly fashion, Primer in Nephrology continues to be the definitive reference for practising nephrologists, trainees and non-nephrologist who encounter renal patients in their daily practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Mark Harber is an associate professor (UCL) and consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free and has been in his current post since 2005. As well as general nephrology Dr Harber has a specialist interest in transplantation and infectious disease associated with this. He has a keen interest in the impacts of the climate crisis on health and how individuals and institutions in health care can contribute to mitigating the crisis and sustainability. Dr Harber also promotes links with renal units in resource poor countries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primer on Nephrology
Editors: Mark Harber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76419-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76418-0Published: 28 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76421-0Published: 28 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76419-7Published: 27 May 2022
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXI, 1750
Number of Illustrations: 152 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nephrology