DESCRIPTION:
The Aging Kidney in Health and Disease will be a reliable source on the management of the elderly with renal disease. There is an ever-increasing proportion of the aging population affected by renal disease and hypertension and physicians are faced with atypical clinical presentations of renal disease in the aged as compared to younger people. This volume will combine the fields of nephrology and geriatrics and present a multidisciplinary approach to the topic.
CONTENTS:
1. Holistic Approach to the Geriatric Patient: Geriatric Evaluation
2. Incidence of Renal Disease and Electrolytes Imbalance in a Geriatric Ward
3. Anatomical, Structural and Vascular Changes in the Aging Kidney
4. Biology of the Aging Process and Its Clinical Consequences
5. Physiology of the Aging Kidney
6. The Mechanisms of Age-Associated Glomerular Sclerosis
7. The Endothelial Function in the Healthy Aged
8. Water and Electrolyte Balance in the Aged
9. Renal Acidification: Calcium, Phosphate, and Magnesium
10. Hypertension
11. The Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System and Agents Interfering with it in Renal Failure and the Aging Process
12. Prevention of Renal Diseases in the Elderly
13. Obstuctive Uropathy in the Aged
14. Prostatic Enlargement
15. Urinary Incontinence
16. Urinary Tract Infection and Management of Bladder Catheter
17. Malignancies of the Upper and Lower Urinary Tract
18. The Role of Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Renal Diseases in the Aged
19. Diabetic Nephropathy
20. Renal Cystic Disease in the Aged
21. Renal Vasculitis in the Aged
22. Acute Renal Failure. Multirogan Failure
23. Aetiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Renal Insufficiency in the Aged
24. Substitute Treatment of End Stage Renal Disease & Hemodialysis
25. Substitute Treatment of End Stage Renal Disease and Renal Transplantation
26. Use of Medication in the Aged with Renal Insufficiency
27. Quality of Life in Old Patients with Renal Failure
28. Ethics in the Management of Renal Failure
