DESCRIPTION:
- Comprehensive and up-to-date guide to diagnosing and treating parenchymal kidney diseases
- Chapters feature illustrated pathology figures and clinical scenarios
- Authored by leaders in glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases
Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art information on the diagnosis, treatment, classification and pathogenesis of glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases.
Chapters feature various clinical scenarios and are authored by a team of renowned experts in the field. Experienced clinicians and trainees alike will find this authoritative reference to be a valuable resource and contribution to the literature.
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. General Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Glomerular Diseases
Chapter 2. Minimal Change Disease in Adults
Chapter 3. Childhood Onset Nephrotic Syndrome
Chapter 4. Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Chapter 5. Membranous Nephropathy
Chapter 6. Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis
Chapter 7. Cryoglobulinemias
Chapter 8. IgA Nephropathy and Schöenlein-Henoch Purpura Nephritis
Chapter 9. Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
Chapter 10. Pathogenesis and Management of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Chapter 11. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Kidney
Chapter 12. Tropical Infectious Diseases and the Kidney
Chapter 13. Glomerular Diseases Associated with HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C Infections
Chapter 14. Cytomegalovirus, BK and Other Viral Infections of the Kidney
Chapter 15. Thrombotic Microangiopathies: Thrombus Formation due to Common or Related Mechanisms?
Chapter 16. Thrombotic Microangiopathy Not Associated with the Classic/Idiopathic TTP-HUS
Chapter 17. Renal Involvement by IgG4-Related Disease
Chapter 18. The Collagen IV Nephropathies
Chapter 19. Other Glomerular Diseases
Chapter 20. Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease
Chapter 21. Amyloidosis
Chapter 22. Glomerular Disease in Pregnancy
Chapter 23. Acute Interstitial Nephritis
Chapter 24. Chronic Interstitial Nephritis
Chapter 25. Reflux Nephropathy and Vesicoureteral Reflux
Chapter 26. Uric Acid and the Kidney
Chapter 27. Plasmapheresis
