Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology

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 Renal function and testing of function; 1.4 Renal function in the newborn infant; 1.5 Renal function in the elderly; 1.6. Visualizing the kidney; 1.6.1 Conventional uroradiology and contrast media; 1.6.2 Renal ultrasonography (including Doppler echography); 1.6. 3 Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the kidney and upper urinary tract; 1.6.4 Renal angiography; 1.6.5 Nuclear imaging in nephrology; 1.6.6 Urology imaging tactics; 1.7 Renal biopsy: performance and interpretation; 2. Fluid, electrolyte, and divalent ion disorders; 2.1 Hyper- hyponatraemia: disorders of water balance; 2.3 Hypercalcaemia and hypocalcaemia; 2.4 Hypo- and hyperphosphataemia; 2.5 Magnesium; 2.6 Clinical acid-based disorders; 3. The patient with glomerular disease; 3.1 The renal glomerulus - the structural basis of ultrafiltration; 3.3 Mechanisms of glomerular inflammation; 3.4 The patient with proteinuria and/or haematuria; 3.5 The nephrotic syndrome: management, complications, and pathophysiology; 3.6 Minimal changes and focal glomerular sclerosis; 3.7 IgA nephropathies; 3.8 Membranous nephropathy; 3.9 Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis; 3.10 Acute endocapillary glomerulonephritis; 3.11 Crescentic glomerulonephritis; 3.12 Antiglomerular basement membrane disease; 3.13 Infection-related glomerulonephritis; 3.14 Malignancy-associated glomerular disease; 3.15 Glomerular disease in the tropics; 4. The kidney in systemic disease; 4.1 The patient with diabetes mellitus; 4.2.1 The patient with amyloidosis; 4.2.2 Immunotactoid glomerulopathy ('fibrillary' nephritis); 4.3. Kidney involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias; 4.4. Sarcoidosis; 4.5 Vasculitis; 4.5.1 Pathogenesis of angiitis; 4.5.2 The nephritis of Henoch-Schonlein purpura; 4.5.3 Systemic vasculitis; 4.6 The patient with mixed cryoglobulinaemia and hepatitis C virus infection; 4.7 Systemic lupus erythematosus; 4.7.1 the pathogenesis of systemic lupus; 4.7.2 Systemic lupus erythematosus (clinical); 4.8 Scleroderma-systemic sclerosis; 4.9 Rheumatoid arthritis, mixed connective disease and polymyositis; 4.10 Sjogren's syndrome and overlap syndromes; 4.11 The patient with sickle cell disease; 5. The patient with tubular disease; 5.1 Fanconi syndrome; 5.2 Isolated defects of tubular function; 5.3 Renal tubular acidosis; 5.4 Hypokalemic tubular disorders: the hyperprostaglandin E syndrome and Gitelman-Bartter syndrome; 5.5 Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus; 6. The patient with chronic interstitial disease; 6.1 Mechanisms of interstitial inflammation; 6.2 Analgesic nephropathy; 6.3 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the kidney; 6.4 Uric acid and the kidney; 6.5 Heavy metals and the kidney; 6.6 Radiation nephritis; 6.7 Lithium; 6.8 Balkan nephropathy; 7. The patient with urinary tract infection; 7.1 Microbiology and defences of the urinary tract; 7.3 Lower and upper urinary tract infection in the adult; 7.4 Urinary tract infection in infancy and childhood; 7.5 Renal tuberculosis; 7.6 Schistosomiasis; 7.7 Fungal infections and the kidney; 8. The patient with renal stone disease; 8.1 Aetiological factors in stone formation; 8.3 The surgical management of renal stone disease; 8.4 Nephrocalcinosis; 9. The patient with renal hypertension; 9.1 Clinical approach to hypertension; 9.3 Clinical investigation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; 9.4 the effects of hypertension on renal vasculature and structure; 9.5 Ischaemic nephropathy; 9.6 Hypertension and unilateral renal parenchymal disease; 9.7 Renovascular hypertension; 9.8 Accelerated hypertension; 9.9 The hypertensive child; 10. Acute renal failure; 10.1 The epidemiology of acute renal failure; 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 haemoperfusion methods in acute renal failure; 10.5 Dialysis and haemoperfusion treatment of acute poisoning; 10.6 Special acute renal failure problems; 10.6.1 Acute renal failure caused by glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, and the nephrotic syndrome; 10.6.3 Acute renal failure associated with microangiopathy; 10.6.4 Acute renal failure in liver disease; 10.6.5 Ischaemic renal disease; 10.6.6 Hantavirus disease; 10.7 Acute renal failure in a special setting; 10.7.1 Acute renal failure in infants and children; 10.7.3 Acute renal failure in tropical countries