Assessment of Urinary Sediment by Electron Microscopy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Microscopy of Urine

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 1-17

3. Proteinuria and Cylindriuria

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 19-37

4. Acute Renal Failure

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 39-86

5. Aminoglycoside Nephrotoxicity

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 87-122

6. Bacteriuria and Pyuria

   • Basab K. Mookerjee, Saleem Khan

   Pages 123-140

7. Renal Transplant Rejection

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 141-163

8. Hepatorenal Syndrome

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 165-184

9. Neoplasms and the Kidney

   • Anil K. Mandal

   Pages 185-214

10. Glomerular Disease

    • Anil K. Mandal

    Pages 215-240

11. Acute and Chronic Interstitial Nephritis

    • Anil K. Mandal

    Pages 241-258

12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-265

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Anil K. Mandai, M.D., is one of the trailblazers in the use of the transmission electron microscope in the study of the urinary sediment. In this book, he reviews his extensive efforts to tie his vast clinical expe­ rience to his elegant basic research with the electron microscope. The pictures are comprehensive, and the clinical correlates are nicely outlined in tables and text. It may astonish some readers that a book for fellows and clinical nephrol­ ogists has been written on the use of the transmission electron microscope in the study of urine. Some may view this as a sophisticated research instrument. I, however, applaud the effort. So many discoveries and advances in basic science lie unutilized because clinicians are not aware of the tools available or have little instruction in their use. Maybe that is the reason why so many tests have come and gone, have been found useless and dropped, or have simply been abandoned after being judged too complicated-some because they were, others because they were never applied and interpreted properly. The whole field of research seems to be pulling ahead and away from clinical medicine. Therefore, an effort like this one, which rapidly and clearly tries to introduce an advanced research examination technique into clinical medicine, is worthy of admiration and sup­ port.

• assessment
• electron microscope
• electron microscopy
• infection
• kidney
• medicine
• microscope
• microscopy
• renal failure
• research

• Wright State University, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Dayton, USA

  Anil K. Mandal

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