DESCRIPTION:
In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the indications, procedures and complications of hemodialysis. Topics discussed in this compilation include cardiovascular involvement in chronic kidney disease nutritional therapy during hemodialysis vascular access and common complications in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment prevention of hemodialysis catheter-related infections antiplatelet medication and the risk of bleeding in hemodialysis and vascular calcifications in end stage renal disease. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. Cardiovascular Involvement in Chronic Kidney Disease (pp. 1-74)
Authors / Editors: (Luca Di Lullo, Fulvio Floccari, Rodolfo Rivera, Antonio Granata, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, S. Giovanni Evangelista Hospital, Tivoli, Italy, and others)
Chapter 2. Nutrition: From the Physiological Bases to Hemodialysis Patient Care (pp. 75-94)
Authors / Editors: (Cláudia Rucco Penteado Detregiachi, Milene Peron Rodrigues Pinto, Maria Rita Marques de Oliveira, Vânia Aparecida Leandro-Merhi, Universidade de Marília-SP, Unimar, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 3. Hemodialysis: Indications, Vascular Access, Different Modalities and Complications (pp. 95-114)
Authors / Editors: (Robert Ekart, Radovan Hojs, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Department of Dialysis and Department of Nephrology, University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia)
Chapter 4. Prevention of Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Infections (pp. 115-130)
Authors / Editors: (Igor Denizarde Bacelar Marques, Rosilene Motta Elias, Hugo Abensur, Nephrology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil)
Chapter 5. Complications of Hemodialysis (pp. 131-150)
Authors / Editors: (Suzanne EL-Sayegh, Chadi Saifan, Suchita Mehta, Pranab Acharya, Rabih Nasr, Morton Kleiner, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York, USA)
Chapter 6. Antiplatelet Medication and the Risk of Bleeding in Hemodialysis Patients (pp. 151-164)
Authors / Editors: (Shoichiro Daimon, Daimon Clinic for Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Dialysis, Director of Nephrology and Dialysis, Japan)
Chapter 7. Vascular Calcifications in End Stage Renal Disease (pp. 165-172)
Authors / Editors: (Lucia Di Micco, Francesco Mirenghi, Maria Luisa Sirico, Serena Torraca, Biagio Di Iorio, UOC of Nephrology, "Agostino Landolfi" Hospital, ASL Avellino, Solofra (AV), Italy)
