Nephrology Forum

ISBN-13: 9780387907642 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 383 str.

James Ed. Cohen; J. J. Cohen; J. T. Harrington

Opis

A few years ago, as the editor of Kidney International, I was ap proached by Drs. Cohen, Kassirer, and Harrington who suggested that a new feature should be included in each monthly issue of the journal. They suggested that it should employ a case discussion format such as that used frequently at specialty rounds in teaching hospitals, and that the discussion should place a special emphasis on the relationship between basic science and important problems in clinical nephrology. The summary of an actual patient history would first be presented to exemplify a particular clinical problem, a seasoned person of proven expertise would be invited to deliver a well-documented analysis of the relevant issues, and perhaps most ambitiously of all, a critical audience would be assembled to challenge the principal discussant in an open ended, question-and-answer period. The entire affair would be recorded at the time of the live conference and transcribed subse quently in preparation for publication as a "Nephrology Forum. " I must confess that I was somewhat hesitant at first to endorse their proposal because, at the time, Kidney International had just begun to establish a solid reputation for the publication of high quality, peer reviewed manuscripts dealing with the clinical and laboratory research interests of the international nephrological community.

Spis treści

I Intrinsic Renal Disease.- Isolated Proteinuria in Asymptomatic Patients.- Pathogenesis and Treatment of Membranous Nephropathy.- Chronic Glomerulonephritis: Nonimmunologic Mechanisms of Progressive Glomerular Damage.- Acute Renal Failure.- Acute Oliguric Interstitial Nephritis.- II Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances.- Sodium Homeostasis in Chronic Renal Disease.- Refractory Ascites in Cirrhosis.- Mechanisms of Urine Concentration.- Neurogenic Diabetes Insipidus.- Hyperkalemia and Hyporeninemic Hypoaldosteronism.- Ketosis.- III Disturbances in Calcium and Phosphorous Metabolism.- Diagnostic Approach to Hypercalciuria.- Renal Insufficiency and Hypercalcemia.- Renal Osteodystrophy.- Acute Hypophosphatemia.