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Table of Contents:

VOLUME 1

Section 1:  Assessment of the Patient with Renal Disease

1.1     History and Clinical Examination of the Patient with Renal Disease

1.2     Urinalysis and Microscopy

1.3     The Clinical Assessment of Renal Function

1.4     Renal Function in the Newborn Infant

1.5     The aging Kidney

1.6     Imaging in Nephrology

1.7     Renal Biopsy:  Indications for and Interpretation

1.8     Immunological Investigation of the Patient with Renal Disease

1.9     The Epidemiology of Renal Disease

Section 2:  The Patient with Fluid, Electrolyte, and Divalent Ion Disorders

2.1     Hypo-Hypernatremia:  Disorders

2.2     Hypo-Hyperkalemia

2.3     Hypo-Hypercalcemia

2.4     Hypo-Hyperphosphatemia

2.5     Hypo-Hypermagnesemia

2.6     Clinical Acid-Base Disorders

Section 3:  The Patient with Glomerular Disease

3.1     The Renal Glomerulus-The Structural Basis of Ultrafiltration

3.2     Glomerular Injury and Glomerular Response

3.3     The Patient with Proteinuria and or Hematuria

3.4     The Nephrotic Syndrome:  Management, Complications, and Pathophysiology

3.5     Minimal Change and Focal-Segmental Glomerular Sclerosis

3.6     IgA Nephropathies

3.7     Membranous Nephropathy

3.8     Mesangiocapillary Glomerulonephritis

3.9     Acute Endocapillary Glomerulonephritis

3.10   Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

3.11   Antiglomerular Basement Disease

3.12   Infection Related Glomerulonephritis

3.13   Malignancy-Associated Glomerular Disease

3.14   Glomerular Disease in the Tropics

VOLUME 2

Section 4:  The Kidney in Systemic Disease

4.1     The Patient with Diabetes Mellitus

4.2     The Patient with Amyloid or Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy

4.3     Kidney Involvement in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias

4.4     The Patient with Sarcoidosis

4.5     The Patient with Vasculitis

4.6     The Patient with Mixed Cryoglobulinemia and Hepatitis C Infection

4.7     The Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

4.8     The Patient with Scleroderma-Systemic Sclerosis

4.9     The Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease or Polymyositis

4.10   The Patient with Sjogren's Syndrome and Overlap Syndromes

4.11   The Patient with Sickle-Cell Disease

4.12   The Patient Exposed to Substance Misuse, Organic Solvents, and Smoking

Section 5:  The Patient with Tubular Disease

5.1     The Structure and Function of Tubules

5.2     Isolated Defects of Tubular Function

5.3     Fanconi Syndrome

5.4     Renal Tubular Acidosis

5.5     Hypokalemic Tubular Disorders

5.6     Nephogenic Diabetes Insipidus

Section 6:  The Patient with Chronic Interstitial Disease

6.1     Mechanisms of Interstitial Inflammation

6.2     Analgesic Nephropathy

6.3     Non-Steroidal anti-Inflammatory Drugs

6.4     Uric Acid and the Kidney

6.5     Nephrotoxic Metals

6.6     Radiation Nephropathy

6.7     Balkan Nephropathy

6.8     Chinese Herbs (and Other Rare Causes of Interstitial Nephropathy)

Section 7:  The Patient with Urinary Tract Infection

7.1     Lower and Upper Urinary Tract

7.2     Urinary Tract Infections in Infancy and Childhood

7.3     Renal Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Infections

7.4     Schistosomiasis

7.5     Fungal Infections and the Kidney

Section 8:  The Patient with Renal Stone Disease

8.1     Etiological Factors in Stone Formation

8.2     The Medical Management of Stone Disease

8.3     The Surgical Management of Renal Stones

8.4     Nephrocalcinosis

8.5     Renal and Urinary Tract Stone:  Disease in Children

Section 9:  The Patient with Renal Hypertension

9.1     The Structure and Function of Blood Vessels

9.2     Clinical Approach to Hypertension

9.3     The Kidney and Control of Blood Pressure

9.4     The Effects of Hypertension on Renal Vasculature and Structure

9.5     Ischemic Nephropathy

9.6     Hypertension and Unilateral Renal Parenchymal Disease

9.7     Renovascular Hypertension

9.8     Malignant Hypertension

9.9     The Hypertensive Child

Section 10:  Acute Renal Failure

10.1   Epidemiology of Acute Renal Failure

10.2   Acute Renal Failure:  Pathophysiology and Prevention

10.3   The Clinical Approach to the Patient with Acute Renal Failure

10.4   Renal Replacement Methods in Acute Renal Failure

10.5   Dialysis and Hemoperfusion Treatment of Acute Poisoning

10.6   Special Acute Renal Failure Problems

10.7   Acute Renal Failure in a Special Setting

VOLUME 3

Section 11:  The Patient with Failing Renal Function

11.1   Mechanisms of Experimental and Clincal Renal Scarring

11.2   Assessment and Initial Management of the Patient with Failing Renal Function

11.3   The Patient with Uremia

Section 12:  The Patient on Dialysis

12.1     Dialysis Strategies

12.2     Vascular Access

12.3     Hemodialysis, Hemofiltration, and Complications of Technique

12.4     Peritoneal Dialysis and Complications of Technique

12.5     Adequacy of Dialysis

12.6     Medical Management of the Dialysis Patient

12.7     Psychological Aspects of Treatment

Section 13:  The Transplant Patient

13.1     Selection and Preparation of the Recipient

13.2     Transplant Immunology

13.3     Management of the Renal Transplant Recipient

Section 14:  Specific Problems in Chronic Renal Insufficiency

14.1     Chronic Renal Failure in Children

14.2     Chronic Renal Failure in the Elderly

14.3     The Diabetic Patient with Impaired Renal Function

Section 15:  The Pregnant Patient

15.1     The Normal Renal Physiological Changes which Occur During Pregnancy

15.2     Renal Complications that May Occur in Pregnancy

15.3     Pregnancy in Patients with Underlying Renal Disease

15.4     Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension

Section 16:  The Patient with Inherited Disease

16.1     Strategies for the Investigation o Inherited Renal Disease

16.2     Cystic Disease

16.3     Nephronophthisis

16.4     Inherited Glomerular Diseases

16.5     Inherited Metabolic Diseases of the Kidney

16.6     Renal Involvement in Tuberous Sclerosis and von Hippel-Lindau Disease

16.7     Some Rare Syndromes with Renal Involvement

Section 17:  The Patient with Structural and Congenital Abnormalities

17.1     The Development of Kidney Disease and Renal Dysplasia

17.2     Vesicouretic Reflux and Reflux Nephropathy

17.3     The Patient with Urinary Tract Obstruction

17.4     Congenital Abnormalities of the Urinary Tract

17.5     Medullary Sponge Kidney

Section 18:  The Patient with Malignancy of the Kidney and Urinary Tract

18.1     Renal Carcinoma and Other Tumors

18.2     Wilm's Tumor

18.3     Tumors of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter

18.4     Tumors of the Bladder

18.5     Tumors of the Prostate

Section 19:  Pharmacology and Drug Use in Kidney Patients

19.1     Drug-Induced Nephropathies

19.2     Handling of Drugs in Kidney Disease

19.3     Action and Clinical Use of Diuretics

INDEX