Full Description
Since laboratory testing and biomarkers are an integral part in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease, Kidney Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination covers currently used biomarkers as well as markers that are in development. Laboratories are increasingly more involved in the follow-up confirmatory laboratory testing and this unique volume showcases the collaboration needed to solve diagnostic clinical puzzles between the laboratory and clinician. This volume provides guidance on laboratory test selection and results interpretation in patients. Sources of inaccurate results in the measurement of kidney biomarkers are discussed along with possibility of eliminating such interferences. Each chapter is organized with a uniform easy-to-follow format with insightful case examples highlighting the collaboration between clinical laboratorians and clinicians.
Contents
CHAPTER 1 Ideal biomarkers of acute kidney injury
CHAPTER 2 Utility of the "omics” in kidney disease: Methods of analysis, sampling considerations, and technical approaches in renal biomarkers
CHAPTER 3 Biomarkers in acute kidney disease
CHAPTER 4 Biomarkers in diabetic kidney disease
CHAPTER 5 Biomarkers in renal vasculitis
CHAPTER 6 Biomarkers in renal cancer
CHAPTER 7 Biomarkers in essential hypertension
CHAPTER 8 Renal biomarkers of preeclampsia
