Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Editor by:
J.G. Abuelo
Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Book Description
Renal Failure, Diagnosis and Treatment is a practical book that provides a comprehensive description of the evaluation of renal insufficiency. It teaches the physician how to recognise the tell-tale signs of the diseases that cause kidney failure and how to confirm their presence in an efficient manner. Major teaching points are reinforced by the presentation of 20 problem cases for the reader's diagnosis. The book also details the general management of the patient with renal failure and the treatment of various causative diseases.
Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Book Details
Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure
Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Editor by:
Claude Jacobs
Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Description
During the past 40 years there have been major conceptual and technical advances in the domain of dialysis methods and renal/organ transplantation for long-term treatment of patients with End-Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). This now enables better defined, more selective strategies of treatment to be undertaken, according to patient-specific criteria such as age or underlying renal disease also taking into account the lifetime duration of these treatments. For many patients this implies necessary successive changes of mode of therapy depending on their availability, occurrence of medical/technical complications or failure and social environment and economic factors. This rationale has inspired the structure of this volume which is divided into four sections: 1/A descriptive overview of the various modes of renal replacement therapy (RRT): Extracorporeal dialysis/filtration, peritoneal dialysis, kidney and multi-organ transplantation. 2/Most appropriate indications and use of these methods, respective advantages, drawbacks and outcome in children, pregnant women and elderly patients. 3/ In diabetic patients and in patients with heredity/congenital diseases.4/ The ethical issues generated by this new domain in Medicine by limitations in treatment facilities or medical dilemas for acceptance, best technical choices, withdrawal or termination of RRT in individual patients. Finally, contributors from Eastern European Coutnries, Africa and Far Eastern Countries analyse the current status of RRT in their respective geographical area and the ways and means required for a wider implementation of RRT in thus far lesser economically developed countries where the great majority of the populations still have no access to these life-saving therapeutic procedures.
Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Author
Claude Jacobs is a Professor of Nephrology (Emeritus), Service de Nephrologie, UFR Pitie-Salpetiere, Paris.
Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Details
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (July 15, 2002)
