Nephrology Forum

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Intrinsic Renal Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4

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   2. Isolated Proteinuria in Asymptomatic Patients

      • Roscoe R. Robinson

      Pages 5-26

   3. Pathogenesis and Treatment of Membranous Nephropathy

      • J. Stewart Cameron

      Pages 27-54

   4. Chronic Glomerulonephritis

      • David S. Baldwin

      Pages 55-84

   5. Acute Renal Failure

      • Robert W. Schrier

      Pages 85-106

   6. Acute Olifuric Interstitia Nephritis

      • Charles van Ypersele de Strihou

      Pages 107-133

3. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-138

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   2. Sodium Homeostasis in Chronic Renal Disease

      • Neal S. Bricker

      Pages 139-168

   3. Refractory Ascites in Cirrhosis

      • Norman G. Levinsky

      Pages 169-186

   4. Mechanisms of Urine Concentration

      • Robert W. Berliner

      Pages 187-208

   5. Neurogenic Diabetes Insipidus

      • Alexander Leaf

      Pages 209-224

   6. Hyperkalemia and Hyporeninemic Hypoaldosteronism

      • Ralph A. DeFronzo

      Pages 225-258

   7. Keptosis

      • George F. Cahill Jr.

      Pages 259-278

4. Disturbances in Calcium and Phosphorous

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-282

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   2. Diagnostic Approach to Hypercalciuria

      • Francis P. Muldowney

      Pages 283-303

   3. Renal Insufficiency and Hypercalcemia

      • Samuel O. Thier

      Pages 305-316

   4. Renal Osteodystrophy

      • Jack W. Coburn

      Pages 317-347

   5. Acute Hypophosphatemia

      • Eberhard Ritz

      Pages 349-374

5. Back Matter

   Pages 375-383

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A few years ago, as the editor of Kidney International, I was ap­ proached by Drs. Cohen, Kassirer, and Harrington who suggested that a new feature should be included in each monthly issue of the journal. They suggested that it should employ a case discussion format such as that used frequently at specialty rounds in teaching hospitals, and that the discussion should place a special emphasis on the relationship between basic science and important problems in clinical nephrology. The summary of an actual patient history would first be presented to exemplify a particular clinical problem, a seasoned person of proven expertise would be invited to deliver a well-documented analysis of the relevant issues, and perhaps most ambitiously of all, a critical audience would be assembled to challenge the principal discussant in an open­ ended, question-and-answer period. The entire affair would be recorded at the time of the live conference and transcribed subse­ quently in preparation for publication as a "Nephrology Forum. " I must confess that I was somewhat hesitant at first to endorse their proposal because, at the time, Kidney International had just begun to establish a solid reputation for the publication of high quality, peer­ reviewed manuscripts dealing with the clinical and laboratory research interests of the international nephrological community.

• glomerulonephritis
• kidney
• nephrology

• Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

  Jordan J. Cohen

• New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  John T. Harrington, Jerome P. Kassirer

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