DESCRIPTION:
This text offers medical students a case-based approach to learning the mechanisms of renal disease. Each chapter covers a disease, beginning with a patient case and followed by a discussion of the pathophysiology of the disease. Issues of differential diagnosis and therapy are linked to pathophysiologic mechanisms. Short questions interspersed throughout the text require students to apply their knowledge. Detailed answers to the questions are included.
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER 1 Review of Renal Physiology.
CHAPTER 2 Regulation of Salt and Water Balance.
CHAPTER 3 Disorders of Water Balance: Hyponatremia, Hypernatremia, and Polyuria.
CHAPTER 4 Edematous States and the Use of Diuretics.
CHAPTER 5 Acid-Base Physiology and Metabolic Alkalosis.
CHAPTER 6 Metabolic Acidosis.
CHAPTER 7 Disorders of Potassium Balance.
CHAPTER 8 Urinalysis and Approach to the Patient With Renal Disease.
CHAPTER 9 Pathogenesis of Major Glomerular and Vascular Diseases.
CHAPTER 10 Tubulointerstitial Diseases.
CHAPTER 11 Acute Renal Failure.
CHAPTER 12 Progression of Chronic Renal Failure.
CHAPTER 13 Signs and Symptoms of Chronic Renal Failure.
