Frailty and Kidney Disease (eBook)

This unique book reviews the information available in the literature regarding the new syndrome, frailty, in patients with various renal conditions, such as acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, as well as dialysis and transplant patients.

The topic is of importance in nephrology, specifically nephrogeriatrics, since frailty is a condition affecting many elderly patients and which is becoming increasingly common in medical practice. As such, there is a considerable need for information to assist professionals treating these patients.  

The book includes chapters on the frailty syndrome (definition, evaluation and treatment), the main geriatric syndromes (gait disorder, falls, incontinence, and delirium), the main renal syndromes (acute renal injury, chronic kidney disease) as well as dialysis and kidney transplant, and the relationship between geriatrics and renal syndromes.

Frailty and Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide to Clinical Management is an essential resource for general practitioners, researchers, internal medicine physicians, geriatricians, and nephrologists.

Carlos G. Musso, MD. PhD. received his Medical Doctorate (Gold medal) from the University of Buenos Aires (1991). His medical specialties include Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (1996), Nephrology and Internal Milieu (1998). He is a Nephrology fellow at the University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain (1999) and a Nephrology fellow at Toronto Western Hospital, Canada (2002).

He also received a Doctor in Medicine (Cum Laude) from the University of Salamanca, Spain (2011). He is Head of the Clinical Renal Physiology and Peritoneal Dialysis Divisions at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Researcher at the Ageing Biology Unit at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires -IAGG Research Network; Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal of Biomedicine; and Full Professor of Human Physiology at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Jose R. Jauregui, MD. PhD. obtained his medical degree at the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires (1981-1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Hospital Durand, Ciudad Autònoma de Buenos Aires (1987-1990) and in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (1993-1994). He received his PhD in Geriatrics from the School of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain (2010-2012).

He is currently a Professor at the Department of Health at the University of La Matanza and Head of the Geriatric Medicine Specialty post graduate course at the University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autònoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Juan F. Macias-Nuñez, MD. PhD. obtained his medical degree at the School of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain (1964-1970). He completed his residency in Nephrology at the renal Units of the University Hospital, Salamanca Spain and Guy's Hospital, London, UK. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota. He received his PhD in Medicine from the School of Medicine of Salamanca, Spain (1978). He was Full Professor of Medicine (1984-2011) and Full Professor of Nephrology and Geriatrics (2011-2015). He is currently the Director of the Fiiperva Chair, Iberoamerican Foundation for Research and Prevention of Vascular Risk factors and Renal Diseases, Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

 

Adrian Covic, MD. PhD. received a Ph.D. on 'Cardiovascular abnormalities and its determinant factors in chronic renal failure' in 1997. He has been an FRCP (London) since 2007, and in 2009 became a member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2018 he was made an FRCP (Edin.). He is also Professor of Nephrology and Internal Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy 'Grigore T. Popa' and Director of the Nephrology Clinic and the Dialysis and Transplantation Center in Iasi, Romania. He was President of the Romanian Society of Nephrology and Secretary Treasurer of ERA-EDTA; Editor in Chief (Nephrology) for the International Journal of Urology and Nephrology; Vice-Rector (Research) of the University of Medicine 'Grigore T. Popa', Iasi, Romania and a board member of KDIGO, ERBP, and ERA-EDTA working groups - EURECAM and EUDIAL.