Contents
- Front matter
- Chapter 1 Clinical assessment of the renal patient
- Chapter 2 Acute renal failure
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- Chapter 2 Acute renal failure
- Definition and epidemiology
- Causes and classification
- Prevention
- Clinical approach to ARF
- Acute or chronic renal failure?
- Assessing ARF
- The nephritic and myeloma screen
- Assessing ARF: imaging and histology
- Pre-renal ARF
- Causes of pre-renal ARF
- Volume replacement in pre-renal ARF
- Intrinsic renal ARF
- Acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
- Pathophysiology of ATN
- Management of ARF 1: a checklist
- Management of ARF 2: dangerous hyperkalaemia
- Management of ARF 3: reducing total body K
- Management of ARF 4: pulmonary oedema
- Management of ARF 5: electrolytes and acidosis
- Management of ARF 6: other strategies
- Management of ARF 7: nutrition
- Management myths
- Renal replacement therapy in ARF
- Prescribing acute haemodialysis (HD)
- Peritoneal dialysis (PD) in ARF
- The hepato-renal syndrome (HRS)
- Management of HRS
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Management of rhabdomyolysis
- Radio-contrast nephropathy (RCN)
- Tumour lysis syndrome
- ARF in sepsis
- Managing septic shock and ARF
- Chapter 3 Chronic kidney disease
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- Chapter 3 Chronic kidney disease
- What is chronic kidney disease (CKD)?
- Pathogenesis of CKD
- Diagnosing CKD
- Progression of CKD
- Preventing progression: blood pressure
- Preventing progression: other measures
- Managing CKD
- Complications of advanced CKD
- Uraemia
- Anaemia of CKD
- Erythropoietin
- Prescribing erythropoietin
- Iron stores and iron therapy in CKD
- Renal bone disease 1
- Renal bone disease 2: physiology
- Renal bone disease 3: clinical features
- Renal bone disease 4: treatment
- Hyperphosphataemia
- Vitamin D analogues
- Calcimimetics
- Parathyroidectomy
- Calciphylaxis
- Cardiovascular disease in CKD
- Pre-transplant work-up
- Diet and nutrition in CKD
- Malnutrition in CKD
- Endocrine problems in CKD
- Palliative treatment of advanced CKD
- Chapter 4 Renal replacement therapy
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- Chapter 4 Renal replacement therapy
- RRT: a brief history
- Introduction
- Haemodialysis (HD)
- Dialysers and membranes
- HD prescription
- Variables in the dialysis prescription
- Vascular access
- Complications of vascular access
- Acute HD complications
- Peritoneal dialysis (PD)
- Types of PD
- PD fluids
- Prescribing PD
- Peritonitis
- Other complications
- PD adequacy
- Ultrafiltration failure
- The well PD patient
- Basic transplantation
- Compatibility
- Pre-transplant assessment
- Living donor transplantation
- Pre-transplant management
- The transplant operation
- Post-transplant management
- Principles of recipient management
- Immunosuppression
- Surgical complications
- Graft dysfunction
- Acute rejection
- Chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN)
- Post-transplant infections
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- BK virus nephropathy
- Post-transplant malignancy
- Expanding the donor pool
- Kidney-pancreas transplantation
- Chapter 5 Hypertension
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- Chapter 5 Hypertension
- Hypertension facts and figures
- What is hypertension?
- Pathogenesis
- BP measurement
- Clinical assessment
- Classification of hypertension
- Treatment thresholds
- Hypertension and CV risk
- Lifestyle measures
- Secondary hypertension
- Primary hyperaldosteronism
- Specific causes of hyperaldosteronism
- Other ‘hyperaldosteronism’ syndromes
- Other causes of secondary hypertension
- Drug management of hypertension
- Drug treatment of hypertension
- Clinical trials in hypertension
- The ASCOT study
- Diuretics
- β-blockers
- α-blockers
- Calcium channel blockers
- ACE inhibitors (ACEI)
- AII receptor blockers (ARB)
- Other antihypertensives
- Resistant hypertension
- Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies
- Assessing urgencies and emergencies
- Management of urgencies and emergencies
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Chapter 6 Diseases of the kidney
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- Chapter 6 Diseases of the kidney
- Approaching glomerular disease
- Histology of glomerulonephritis
- Acute nephritic syndrome
- Approaching acute nephritis
- General principles of management of nephritis
- Management of glomerulonephritis
- IgA nephropathy
- Management of IgA nephropathy
- Post-infectious glomerulonephritis
- Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
- Hereditary nephropathies
- Other glomerulonephritides
- The nephrotic syndrome
- Minimal change nephropathy
- Membranous nephropathy (MN)
- Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Treatment of FSGS
- Thrombotic microangiopathies
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome
- Tubulo-interstitial diseases
- Chronic tubulo-interstitial diseases
- Analgesic nephropathy
- Renovascular disease
- Management of ARAS
- Other renovascular diseases
- Adult polycystic kidney disease (APKD)
- Complications of APKD
- Other cystic kidney diseases
- Urinary tract infections
- Reflux nephropathy
- Nephrolithiasis
- Investigating recurrent stone-formers
- Acute renal colic
- Chapter 7 The kidney in systemic disease
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- Chapter 7 The kidney in systemic disease
- Diabetic nephropathy (DN)
- Management of diabetic nephropathy
- Management of ESRD in diabetes
- The kidney in multiple myeloma
- Managing myeloma kidney
- Renal amyloid
- Other non-amyloid dysproteinaemias
- Sickle cell nephropathy
- Vasculitis and renal disease
- ANCA-positive vasculitis
- Treatment of ANCA-positive vasculitis
- Churg–Strauss syndrome
- Classical polyarteritis nodosa
- Goodpasture's disease
- Lupus nephritis
- Management of lupus nephritis
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Scleroderma renal crisis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- HIV and renal disease
- Hepatitis B-related renal disease
- Hepatitis C-related renal disease
- The kidney in infective endocarditis
- Renal tuberculosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Malaria
- Chapter 8 Urinary tract obstruction
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- Chapter 8 Urinary tract obstruction
- Approaching obstruction
- Imaging urinary tract obstruction
- Acute obstruction
- Chronic obstruction
- PUJ and VUJ obstruction
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Investigation of a renal mass
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Urothelial tumours
- Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)
- Prostate cancer
- Management of prostate cancer
- Chapter 9 Fluids and electrolytes
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- Chapter 9 Fluids and electrolytes
- Sodium: salt and water balance
- Hyponatraemia
- Management of hyponatraemia
- Hypernatraemia
- Oedema and its treatment
- Diuretics
- Potassium
- Hypokalaemia
- Bartter's, Gitelman's, and Liddle's
- Calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus
- Hypocalcaemia
- Hypercalcaemia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypophosphataemia
- Hyperphosphataemia
- Acid—base
- Metabolic acidosis
- Renal tubular acidosis
- Lactic acidosis
- Metabolic alkalosis
- Mixed grills: acidosis and alkalosis
- Tubular rarities
- Chapter 10 Pregnancy and the kidney
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- Chapter 10 Pregnancy and the kidney
- Renal physiology in pregnancy
- UTI in pregnancy
- Acute renal failure in pregnancy
- Hypertension in pregnancy
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension
- Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Managing pre-eclampsia/eclampsia
- Chronic hypertension in pregnancy
- Pre-existing renal disease
- Disorders of the renal tract in pregnancy
- Pregnancy on dialysis
- Renal transplantation and pregnancy
- Chapter 11 Drugs and the kidney
- End matter
- Appendix




