Renal transplantation (also known as kidney transplantation) is the process of organ transplantation of akidney into a patient with end-stagerenal disease. This book presents recent developments in renal transplant surgery in a comprehensive manner. It extensively covers a number of topics related to renal transplant surgery. These include advances and success of renal transplant science, molecular genetics, biochemistry, immunology, pediatric transplant and some uropathies that warrant organ replacement. The contributors of this book possess sound knowledge and experience in this field....

Clinical nephrology is an emerging field in which the amount of information is advancing on everyday basis. This book provides instant access to certain significant clinical conditions confronted in nephrology including the diseases of tubules, interstitium and glomeruli. It comprises of the current information on diagnosis, management and pathophysiology of vital diseases of renal parenchyma. The information is described in an extremely user friendly way as the treatment algorithms allow the reader to instantly access expert advice on arriving at the most suitable treatment regimen. The book...

There is no shortage of high-class books on renal biopsy and pathology in the market. These are, moreover, single author or multi-author books, printed by world authorities in their individual areas, mostly from the urbanized world. Most of the books share the traditional dullness of the topics or subjects enclosed in the book. The current book is an exclusive text that bears a truly global outlook and incorporates a diversity of topics, which makes the book a very valuable resource. The authors of the current book hail not only from the urbanized world, but also from many developing...

This book aims at presenting latest insights about diagnosis, treatment and etiopathogenesis of chronic and acute renal failure. Both acute and chronic renal failures are of significant medical concern and also influence economies of many countries. Topics covered in the book elucidate essential issues of causes, diagnosis and therapeutic achievements of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The book also includes topics which elaborate the psychological conditions of patients undergoing hemodialysis and the cure of diabetic uremics. The book serves the objective of assisting clinicians with special...

This is an important book which examines renal cell carcinoma. Integrating scientific developments and therapeutic innovations over the past decade, this book offers physicians treating kidney cancer and researchers with latest information related to the epidemiology, biology and treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The book is a compilation of contributions from experts in their respective fields across the world. Contributing specialists have presented reviews about current knowledge in the management of both metastatic and localized renal cell carcinoma and also the current advances in,...

The public debate on Shariʿa councils in Britain has been heavily influenced by the assumption that the councils exist as religious authorities and that those who use them exercise their right to religious freedom. In Shariʿa Councils and Muslim Women in Britain Tanya Walker draws on extensive fieldwork from over 100 cases to argue for a radically different understanding of the setting and dynamics of the Shariʿa councils. The analysis highlights the pragmatic manoeuvrings of Muslim women, in pursuit of defined objectives, within limited space - holding in tension both...