Full Description
This annually updated work is a supplement of the official journal of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association. It presents topics of current relevance to clinical nephrologists, focusing attention on the latest and most important scientific and clinical advances.
Contents
Renal physiology; Control of renal vascular tone by endothelin and nitric oxide; New insights in the pathogenesis of nephrotic oedema; Metabolic acidosis as a stimulus for protein and amino-acid catabolism; The kidney in pregnancy; Is chronic renal disease a contraindication to pregnancy?; Hereditary renal diseases; Alport syndrome: new understandings based upon the molecular defect; Vascular diseases of the kidney; Autoantibodies: their usefulness in distinguishing different forms of vasculitis; Paediatric nephrology; Protection of the immature stressed kidney; Treatment of growth retardation in uraemic children; Geriatric nephrology; A clinical approach to urinary incontinence in the elderly; Acute renal failure; Multiple organ dysfunction in the intensive therapy unit; Chronic renal failure; The management of hyperlipidaemia in patients with renal disease; Erythropoietin resistance in chronic uraemic patients; Haemodialysis; Prevention of intradialytic morbidity by optimization of dialysate sodium profile; Renal transplantation; Is intervention feasible in chronic transplant rejection?; Diagnostic methods in nephrology.
