Handbook of Renal Therapeutics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983

This book started out as a "Manual. " The idea was to offer straightforward instruction on how to handle patients in whom renal function is altered by intrinsic as well as systemic or extrarenal disease. While we have attempted to provide simple approaches to most conditions, we have gone beyond that and offer here more detailed description of pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy. Thus, the "Manual" has become a Handbook. In so doing we hope we have widened the audience for which the book may be useful. As it now stands, we envision that students, house staff, nephrology trainees, nephrologists, primary-care physicians, and nurses of specialized units, interested in kidney-related disturbances and in alterations of the composi­ tion of the extracellular fluid, will benefit from reading the Handbook. While providing a rational background for the treatments outlined, each author has attempted to narrate the reasons why such therapy is utilized. Frequently, the information is provided in tables and figures to which ready reference can be made. The flow-chart approach has also been utilized to illustrate pathophysiological sequence or steps in therapy. In most instances, the discussion of pathophysiology has been limited to what is widely ac­ cepted rather than treading into anything controversial, unless the nature of the problem or the nature of our knowledge is ambiguous.

1. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances: Hypo- and Hypernatremia.- 2. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances: Hypo- and Hyperkalemia.- 3. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances: Hypo- and Hypercalcemia.- 4. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances: Hypo- and Hypermagnesemia.- 5. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances: Treatment of Hypophosphatemia and Phosphate Depletion.- 6. Acid-Base Disturbances: Metabolic and Respiratory Acidoses.- 7. Acid-Base Disturbances: Metabolic and Respiratory Alkaloses.- 8. Disturbances of Uric Acid Metabolism.- 9. Management of Glomerulonephritis and Nephrotic Syndrome.- 10. Drugs and the Kidney: Renal Contribution to Handling of Drugs.- 11. Drugs and the Kidney: Adjusting Drug Regimens in Patients with Renal Disease.- 12. Infections and Antibiotic Usage in Patients with Renal Diseases.- 13. Management of Hypertension: Management of Essential and Secondary Hypertension.- 14. Management of Hypertension: Hypertensive Emergencies.- 15. Hypertension and Renal Disease during Pregnancy.- 16. Nutrition in Renal Disease.- 17. Diagnosis and Therapy of Nephrolithiasis.- 18. Bone and Mineral Disturbances in Renal Insufficiency.- 19. Therapy of the Acute Renal Failure Syndrome.- 20. Care of the Chronic Hemodialysis Patient.- 21. Care of the Patient on Acute and Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis.- 22. Care of the Transplant Recipient.