Acid and Basics: A Guide to Understanding Acid-Base Disorders - Hardcover

Lowenstein, Jerome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195075722 ISBN 13: 9780195075724

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Acid-base metabolism is of fundamental clinical relevance and is one of the areas least well understood by medical students and physicians. The past 10 years have seen tremendous advances in knowledge regarding the molecular basis for membrane transport. This accessible book discusses in detail the intricacies of acid-base physiology, clearly describing how transport proteins delicately facilitate the movement of ions across the cell membranes and preserve the acid-base balance. This information permits an understanding of the physiologic basis for acid-base disorders not previously possible.

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About the Author

Jerome Lowenstein M.D. , a nephrologist, is Professor of Medicine at New York University Shool of Medicine. As a teacher, investigator, and clinician, he has spent much of his career investigating and teaching about acid-base disorders, electrolyte physiology and renal function. He is author of "Henderson's Equation" (Gadd Books, Great Barrington, MA, 2008) a novel about the relationship between Lawrence J. Henderson and a young medical student acolyte at Harvard Medical School in the early part of the 20th century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195075722
• ISBN 13: 9780195075724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168