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Vittorio E. Andreucci
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Department of Nephrology, Second Faculty of Medicine, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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- Antonio Dal Canton, Vittorio E. Andreucci
Pages 1-11
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- Gina Gregorini, Norberto Perico, Giuseppe Remuzzi
Pages 13-33
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- Edoardo Rossi, Maria Matilde Cossu, Piero Capetta
Pages 35-45
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- James R. Taylor, Benjamin H. Spargo
Pages 47-63
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- Wolfram E. Nolten, Edward N. Ehrlich
Pages 81-94
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- Norman F. Gant, Jack A. Pritchard
Pages 95-121
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- Vittorio E. Andreucci, Antonio Dal Canton, Domenico Russo
Pages 123-131
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- Priscilla S. Kincaid-Smith, Robyn A. North, Gavin J. Becker, Kenneth F. Fairley
Pages 133-164
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- Nathalie Pertuiset, Dominique Ganeval, Jean-Pierre Grünfeld
Pages 165-184
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- Sabri Challah, Antony J. Wing, Michel Broyer, Gianfranco Rizzoni
Pages 185-194
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Back Matter
Pages 231-237
About this book
The behavior of the kidney in normal pregnancy, as well as in complicated pregnancy, is a very interesting, but still in many ways an unknown topic in renal medicine. It is undoubtedly difficult to determine, even in normal women, the behavior of renal hemodynamics throughout gestation, since the fear of impairing a new life (i.e., the fetus's life) will limit, for ethical reasons, the use or the frequent repetition of diagnostic tests on the mother. On the other hand, the study of complicated pregnancy even for diagnostic purposes (for planning adequate treatment), except in a few countries that are known for the advanced health education of the population, has to face serious difficulties. First of all, pregnant women usually seek the help of an obstetrician when gestation is already in an advanced stage. This makes it difficult to determine when and how asymptomatic signs of any disease discovered during pregnancy have first occurred. A second difficulty is that frequently the patient does not know whether a given disease has preceded pregnancy. Pregnancy is a condition of young women, and a young woman frequently has never seen a physician; thus, no urine analysis or blood tests have been performed before the gestation. Not infrequently, even blood pressure has never been measured. This will make it difficult to classify hypertension discovered in late pregnancy as pregnancy-induced hypertension or as chronic hypertension in pregnancy.
Reviews
"... an excellent book that should be present in all the libraries of nephrologists, obstetricians and internists who want to have clear ideas on what happens in kidneys of the pregnant woman and on what to do when morbid conditions appear." (Nephron, 46, 1987)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Nephrology, Second Faculty of Medicine, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Vittorio E. Andreucci
