Acute Renal Failure
September 2001; 35.000 Ptas. / 210,35 €
Bruce A. Molitoris, MD ,
Professor of Medicine, Director, Nephrology, Indiana University School of
Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
William F. Finn, MD ,
Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
NC
The most common reason for a
renal consult in a hospitalized patient is acute renal failure (ARF). This new
companion book to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney provides the reader with the
complete information necessary to understand, diagnose, and treat this serious
and challenging condition. The first part of the book describes recent progress
in the understanding of the pathophysiology of ARF, explaining the tremendous
strides in the molecular and cellular aspects of cell injury and recovery. The
remainder (and majority) of the text emphasizes the clinical spectrum and
management of the different disease processes causing ARF. In these chapters,
ARF is discussed in terms of its many associated disease processes such as
pigment nephropathy, burns, infectious disease, and gastrointestinal and liver
disease. This format allows for rapid referral and an in-depth understanding of
all clinical aspects of ARF, including its most important aspect of management:
to prevent the disease from becoming chronic, ultimately leading to dialysis and
then transplantation.
Features
- Provides
the reader with a single-volume, authoritative, clinically oriented resource
on ARF.
- Offers
an in-depth analysis of recent advances in scientific and clinical aspects
of acute renal failure (ARF).
- Covers
the most recent advances in therapy, and emphasizes diagnosis, management,
and prognosis.
- Integrates
basic science with clinical diagnosis and treatment throughout.
- Describes
in detail the mechanisms underlying the development of ARF and highlights
the factors which promote recovery.
- Emphasizes
the clinical impact of ARF according to the areas where it is most likely to
be seen.
Contents
I. The Pathophysiology of
Acute Renal Failure
1. Morphologic basis of ARF
Loraine C. Racusen
2. Vascular alterations in ARF:
establishment and maintenance John Conger
3. Cytoskeletal alterations as
a basis of cellular injury in ARF Bruce Molitoris
4. Heat shock proteins: role
in prevention and recovery from ARF Norm Siegel
5. Growth factors and signal
transduction in response to ARF Joe Bonventre
6. Inflammatory response and
its consequences in ARF Robert Starr
7. DNA damage and repair in
ARF Sudir Shah
8. Terminal pathways in cell
death Wil Lieberthal
9. The role of iron and heme
oxygenase in ARF Karl Nath
II. The Clinical Spectrum of
Acute Renal Failure
1. Clinical and laboratory
diagnosis Robert J. Anderson
2. Metabolic and electrolyte
disturbances E.A. Burdman
3. Imaging techniques in ARF
Richard Clark
4. Surgical and post-traumatic
ARF Ori S. Better, Glen M. Chertow
5. ARF in pregnancy Susan H.
Hou
6. Pigment nephropathy James
P. Knochel, Karl Nath
7. ARF with cardiovascular
disease J. Fort
8. ARF in liver disease Murray
Epstein
9. ARF in rheumatologic
disease P. Nachman, G. Eknoyan
10. ARF in burns E.M. Abdel-Rahman
11. Infectious disease Louis
Yu, John Dillon
12. Malignancy David J. Salant,
Kaml F. Badr
13. Transplantation Bryan
Myers, Richard Zager
14. ARF associated with
diagnostic and therapeutic agents Christiane M. Erley,
Marc DeBroe, Thomas DuBose, Jr.,
J.H. Turney
15. ARF with occupational and
environmental settings Patricia Mueller, Geoff Dugin
16. ARF in natural disasters
Norbert Lameire
III. Management of Acute Renal
Failure
1. Patterns of recovery,
residual injury, mortality rates William F. Finn
2. Nutritional support in
patients with ARF Joel D. Kopple
3. Dialysis Claudio Ronco,
Ravi H. Mehta, Raymond Hakim
4. Predictive factors and
scoring F. Liano
5. Multiple organ system
failure D. Kleinknecht