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- Rayner, Hugh
Understanding Kidney Diseases
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39920
Hugh Rayner, Mark Thomas, David Milford.
(1st ed.)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2016.
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This book provides the essential understanding needed for the assessment of patients with kidney disease. The chapters follow the sequence taken during a clinic consultation and when clerking a patient. At each stage, the principles and concepts underlying aspects of renal medicine that may seem difficult are clearly explained. Understanding Kidney Diseases includes numerous case studies and charts based upon patients' data to help students, residents and fellows develop their knowledge and ski…
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- Author
- Rayner, Hugh
- Other Authors
- Thomas, Mark
- Milford, David
- Responsibility
- Hugh Rayner, Mark Thomas, David Milford
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 300 p. : 216 illus., 81 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319234588
- 9783319234571 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Diagnostic Techniques, Urological
- Disease Progression
- Kidney Diseases - diagnosis
- Kidney Diseases - physiopathology
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- Abstract
- This book provides the essential understanding needed for the assessment of patients with kidney disease. The chapters follow the sequence taken during a clinic consultation and when clerking a patient. At each stage, the principles and concepts underlying aspects of renal medicine that may seem difficult are clearly explained. Understanding Kidney Diseases includes numerous case studies and charts based upon patients' data to help students, residents and fellows develop their knowledge and skill in managing patients.
- Contents
- 1. Kidney Anatomy and Physiology -- 2. Measuring Kidney Function -- 3. Plot All the Dots -- 4. How Are You Feeling? -- 5. Do You Have Any Long-Term Health Conditions? -- 6. Are You Pregnant or Planning a Pregnancy? -- 7. What Is Your Family History? -- 8. What Have You Been Taking? -- 9. Height and Weight -- 10. Blood Pressure -- 11. Test the Urine -- 12. Examine the Patient. -- 13. Full Blood Count, Urea and Electrolytes, Bicarbonate, Bone Profile -- 14. Immunology -- 15. Image the Urinary Tract -- 16. Should We Do a Kidney Biopsy? -- 17. Make a Plan -- 18. Renal Replacement Therapy -- 19. Epilogue -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Multiple Choice Question Answers -- Index of Case Reports -- Index of Histopathology, Radiology and Clinical Images.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
