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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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Chemical and Physical Injuries
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Chronic Renal Failure
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Medical therapy
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- Giuseppe Maschio, Lamberto Oldrizzi, Carlo Rugiu
Pages 649-657
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- Markus Teschner, August Heidland
Pages 675-695
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- J. Carlos Ayus, R. K. Krothapalli
Pages 697-710
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- Suhail Ahmad, Christopher R. Blagg
Pages 719-732
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Peritoneal dialysis
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- Robert A. Mactier, Karl D. Nolph
Pages 755-773
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Hemodialysis
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- George P. Noon, H. David Short
Pages 775-789
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- N. K. Man, J. L. Funck-Brentano
Pages 791-811
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- Raymond C. Vanholder, Nicolas H. Hoenich, Severin M. Ringoir
Pages 841-852
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Transplantation
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- Yves F. Ch. Vanrenterghem
Pages 887-903
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- J. Winaver, J. Green, O. S. Better
Pages 905-919
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- Eleanor D. Lederer, Wadi N. Suki
Pages 921-941
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.
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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