Overview
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Wadi N. Suki
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Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA
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Shaul G. Massry
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Division of Nephrology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Table of contents (62 chapters)
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Disorders of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
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- Stephen Brennan, J. Carlos Ayus
Pages 1-16
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- William P. Muldowney, Michael H. Humphreys
Pages 17-25
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- Arthur Greenberg, Jules B. Puschett
Pages 27-43
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- Jacques J. Bourgoignie, James R. Oster, Guido O. Perez, Dollie F. Green
Pages 45-89
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- Aaron Halabe, Roger A. L. Sutton
Pages 91-110
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- Moshe Levi, James P. Knochel
Pages 121-137
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- Joan H. Parks, Fredric L. Coe
Pages 139-158
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- Sandra Sabatini, Neil A. Kurtzman
Pages 159-175
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- Robert M. A. Richardson, Mitchell L. Halperin
Pages 177-191
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- Horacio J. Adrogué, Jorge Barrero, George M. Dolson
Pages 193-206
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- Fernando Santos, Gad Kainer, Jame C. M. Chan
Pages 207-221
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- Gregorio I. Casar, R. Keith Wilson
Pages 223-231
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- John T. Harrington, Nicolaos E. Madias
Pages 233-243
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- Adrian Spitzer, Richard Neiberger
Pages 245-262
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- Hervy H. Hiner Jr, Wadi N. Suki
Pages 263-276
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- David M. Gillum, John D. Conger, Robert J. Anderson
Pages 285-303
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Intrinsic Parenchymal Disease
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Glomerular
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- David S. Baldwin, Joel Neugarten
Pages 305-315
About this book
"Where are all these kidney patients coming from? A few perfection the study of the urinary sediment, clinically years ago we had never heard of kidney disease and now practical kidney function tests, and the natural history of a number of kidney diseases including glomerulonephritis. you are speaking of patients in the hundreds of thousands and indeed potentially millions. " My reply, not meant to William Goldring, Herbert Chasis, Dana Atchley, and others studied the effects of hypertension, endocarditis, be grim, was "From the cemetery, Sir. " This is a summary and circulatory diseases on the kidney and spawned suc of some Congressional testimony lance gave on behalf of extending kidney disease under Medicare. Where indeed cessive generations of alert clinical investigators, who be gan to chronicle the natural histories of a wide variety of were all the patients with kidney disease in the United States before World War II? They were certainly not kidney diseases. Quantitative studies of renal function flourished under a school headed by Homer Smith, and under the care of nephrologists! Nephrology was not listed in the questionnaires for any state or the American Medi surprisingly precise techniques were developed for study ing a whole range of explicit nephron functions. Imagine cal Association as a subspecialty or even as a special the joy with the advent of vascular catheterization to be interest.
Reviews
The comprehensiveness of the textbook makes this a valuable reference for nephrology nurses. It would be a worthwhile addition to the library of any renal unit.Therapy of Renal Diseases and Related Disorders
'....there is much to recommended this book....it is useful book, providing a mine of information for those involved in the management of patients with renal diseases. ' Nephrology Dialysis Transplant 8:2: 1993
Editors and Affiliations
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Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA
Wadi N. Suki
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Division of Nephrology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Shaul G. Massry
