Renal Medicine

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Professor David Kerr Royal Victoria Infirmary) Newcastle upon Tyne Do we need another book on renal disease? There are few small books, particularly from this side of the Atlantic, which provide a really sound foundation of renal physiology, biochemistry and immunology. For two decades "The Kidney" by Hugh de Wardener has given a splendid background in renal physiology but I doubt if any author has brought to this subject as wide an experience and knowledge of basic science as Dr Wardle possesses. His researches have ranged over haematology, the role of in­ travascular coagulation in acute renal failure, the biochemistry of uremic metabolites, the immunology of glomerulonephritis, to hyperlipidemia in the genesis of arterial disease. In all these topics he has mastered the laboratory techniques as well as studying the patients personally. He therefore has a unique opportunity to show how renal disease can be illuminated by an understanding of the pathogenetic mechanism and to point the way to future treatment more logical than the crude and empirical methods we use today. This approach should appeal particularly to the young graduate whose memory of biocht:mistry and physiology is still reasonably fresh. Front Matter....Pages i-vii The kidneys in health and disease: renal physiology and pathophysiology....Pages 1-32 Diuretics and renal metabolism....Pages 33-55 The kidney and hypertension....Pages 57-88 Glomerulonephritis....Pages 89-117 Clinical varieties and treatment of nephritis....Pages 119-157 Nephropathies....Pages 159-185 Urinary tract infection (UTI)....Pages 187-220 Kidney stones and congenital diseases of the kidney....Pages 221-253 Acute renal failure....Pages 255-286 Renal problems in pregnancy....Pages 287-294 Chronic renal failure (CRF)....Pages 295-329 Drug therapy in chronic renal failure and dialysis patients....Pages 331-346 Haemodialysis....Pages 347-390 Renal transplantation....Pages 391-416 Back Matter....Pages 417-435