Renal Disease in Pregnancy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107124077 ISBN 13: 9781107124073

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

With higher risks to mother and baby in pregnant women with renal disease, critical decision-making is key. Giving practical guidance for antenatal, post-partum and maternity unit challenges, this book supports good practice and evidence-based management. The book includes evidence on antenatal and post-partum care; management of acute kidney injury in the delivery suite; and care guidelines for acute, chronic, and previously undiagnosed kidney diseases. The book also covers acute kidney injury, transplant, dialysis, pre-conception counselling, and medications. Previously published by RCOG, this revised edition includes: · Updated expert consensus statements · Complete revision, with a new chapter on contraception · Updates in management of acute kidney injury, hypertension, dialysis and pregnancy, renal transplantation and pre-eclampsia. Structured to help clinicians make decisions, this book is for use by obstetricians, renal physicians, maternal medicine clinicians, midwives, urologists and specialist nurses.

About this title

Book Description:

With practical guidance for antenatal, postpartum and maternity unit challenges, this book supports care before, during and after pregnancy for women with kidney disease. This new edition contains updated expert consensus statements and reliable advice on the management of acute, chronic and previously undiagnosed kidney diseases during pregnancy.

About the Author:

Kate Bramham is an Academic Nephrologist from King's College Hospital, London. She trained with Professors Poston, Chappell and Nelson-Piercy in the Division of Women's Health, King's College London. She runs a specialist renal-pregnancy service at King's and is deputy lead for the UK Renal Disease in Pregnancy study group.

Matt Hall is a Consultant Nephrologist at Nottingham University Hospitals and current Lead for the UK Pregnancy and Kidney Disease Rare Disease Group. He runs a joint renal-obstetric clinic seeing women with all aspects of kidney disease during pregnancy.

Catherine Nelson-Piercy is a Consultant Obstetric Physician and Professor of Obstetric Medicine at Guy's & St Thomas' and Imperial College Healthcare Trust in London. She co-edited the first edition of this book and is the author of the Handbook of Obstetric Medicine (2015), now in its fifth edition. She is past president of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine and co-editor of its journal Obstetric Medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107124077
• ISBN 13: 9781107124073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Bramham Kate, Hall Matt, Nelson-Piercy Catherine