Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology: Text with CD-ROM - Hardcover

Johnson MD, Richard J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0723432589 ISBN 13: 9780723432586

Publisher: Mosby Ltd., 2003

Synopsis

The second edition of Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology will build on the strengths of the first edition to bring the reader the most up-to-date information on every clinical condition encountered in nephrology in one concise but comprehensive, clinically focussed volume.

Every chapter has been fully revised and updated, with new chapters on renal disease in the elderly, management of renal diseases in septic shock or the ICU setting, and urologic conditions of relevance to the nephrologist. There is much greater coverage of the surgical management of renal stone disease, the management of renal disease in the ICU, acute pancreatitis and Leptospirosis as causes of acute renal failure, renal, bladder and prostate malignancy, and much more.

Clinically focussed and highly illustrated in full colour throughout, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology is an invaluable bedside resource for the trainee or practicing clinician in nephrology, internal medicine or critical care.

• Gives the best clinical advice available form the worlds leading experts
• Give the reader both the principles and practice of clinical medicine for every disorders
• Assists in the decision as to which tests to order
• Reader is able to locate material more easily due to standard layout of each chapter
• Ensures the best possible coverage of the specialty form the experts worldwide
• Relevant but not exhaustive references of key papers makes it easy to locate essential references
• Makes the complex acid-base principles easy to understand and helps put them in the clinical context of the disease process

New chapter on Renal Disease in the Elderly

More on surgical management of renal stone disease and its treatment, primary oxalosis, and uremic toxicity

New chapter on Management of Renal Disease in the ICU setting (in the context of septic shock etc.)

More on acute pancreatitis and leptospirosis as causes of acute renal failure

New chapter on Critical Urological Conditions of relevance to Nephrologists

Short new section on hantavirus and renal disease

More on renal, bladder and prostate malignancy

Expanded coverage of poisoning and drug toxicity, with all common poisons/toxins discussed

Many new clinical photographs, pathology and radiology images and full-colour line illustrations

Increased number of references in each chapter

About this title

About the Author

Richard J. Johnson, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and John Feehally, MA, DM, FRCP, Consultant Nephrologist, Leicester General Hospital; Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby Ltd.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0723432589
• ISBN 13: 9780723432586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1245