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Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney
Michael R. Clarkson, Barry M. Brenner, Ciara Magee
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Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney
Michael R. Clarkson, Barry M. Brenner, Ciara Magee
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Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney distills the essential clinical information from the latest edition of the seminal text on kidney diseases and their management. Michael R. Clarkson, Ciara Magee, and Barry M. Brenner detail the key pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues in clinical nephrology, including interventional nephrology, endocrine aspects of kidney disease, and plasmapheresis.
- Diagnose, treat, and manage both common and uncommon disorders.
- Find clinical knowledge quickly and easily thanks to convenient tables throughout the text.
- Choose the best option of the many techniques available through discussions of indications for laboratory tests and imaging studies.
Enhance your clinical acumen with coverage of new topics such as risk factors and kidney disease, nephron endowment, interventional nephrology, plasmapheresis, xenotransplantation, stem cells in renal biology and medicine, and more.
Stay current thanks to two new sections—Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Kidney Disease and Frontiers in Kidney Disease—that include topics such as stem cell and genomics.
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Note: Page numbers followed by f refer to figures, and those followed by t refer to tables.
A
Abdomen
in acute kidney injury, 8
in chronic kidney disease, 17
in hypertensive patient, 451
plain film radiography of, 42
calculi in, 48
urinary tract obstruction in, 339
Abdominal aneurysms, in urinary tract obstruction, 337
ABO-incompatible renal transplantation, 787
Abortion, septic, 502–503
Abscess, in medullary sponge kidney, 431
Accelerated hypertension, 442
Acebutalol, doses and responses of, 519t
Acetaminophen
acidosis caused by, 125–126
overdose of, 773–774
Acetazolamide, for uric acid stones, 374
Acetoacetate, 29
Acetone, 29
Acid-base balance
maintenance of, 112
potassium distribution and, 137t, 138
Acid-base disorders, 112–135
diagnosis of, stepwise approach to, 112–116
step 1: blood gas and electrolyte assessment in, 112
step 2: definition of disorder in, 113
step 3: determination of mixed disturbance in, 113, 114t, 115f
step 4: anion gap calculation in, 113–116
step 5: history, examination, and laboratory data in, 116
step 6: initiation of treatment in, 116
diuretic-related, 557
in acute kidney injury, 211
management of, 215
metabolic, 116–128
acidosis, 116–126 See also Metabolic acidosis
alkalosis, 127–128 See also Metabolic alkalosis
respiratory, 128–131, 129t
treatment of, 135
treatment of, 131–135
urinary pH and, 27–28
Acidosis
lactic, 123–124
treatment of, 132–133
D-lactic, 124
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