Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology

SECTION 1: ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH RENAL DISEASE (EDITOR: J.-P. GRUNFELD) ; 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 ; 1.6.1 Imaging techniques in nephrology ; 1.6.2 Imaging strategies in clinical nephrology ; SECTION 2: THE PATIENT WITH FLUID, ELECTROLYTE, AND DIVALENT ION DISORDERS (EDITOR: C. VAN YPERSELE) ; 2.1 Hypo-hypernatraemia: disorders of water balance ; 2.2 Hypo-hyperkalaemia ; 2.3 Hypo-hypercalcaemia ; 2.4 Hypo-hyperphosphataemia ; 2.5 Hypo-hypermagnesaemia ; 2.6 Clinical acid-base disorders ; SECTION 3: THE PATIENT WITH GLOMERULAR DISEASE (EDITOR: J. S. CAMERON) ; 3.1 The renal glomerulus - the structural basis of ultrafiltration ; 3.2 Glomerular injury and glomerular response ; 3.3 The patient with proteinuria/or haematuria ; 3.4 The nephrotic syndrome: pathophysiology, management, and complications ; 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 ; SECTION 4: THE KIDNEY IN SYSTEMIC DISEASE (EDITOR: J. S. CAMERON) ; 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 cryoglobulinaemia 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 (EDITOR: C. VAN YPERSELE) ; 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 Hypokalaemic tubular disorders etc ; 5.6 Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus ; SECTION 6: THE PATIENT WITH CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL DISEASE (EDITOR: C. VAN YPERSELE) ; 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 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 (EDITOR: C. PONTICELLI) ; 7.1 Lower and upper urinary tract infections in the adult ; 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 (EDITOR: C. PONTICELLI) ; 8.1 Aetiological 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 (EDITOR: E. RITZ) ; 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 Ischaemic 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 (EDITOR: C. WINEARLS) ; 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 haemoperfusion treatment of acute poisoning ; 10.6 Special acute renal failure problems ; 10.7 Acute renal failure in a special setting ; SECTION 11: THE PATIENT WITH FAILING RENAL FUNCTION (EDITORS: E. RITZ AND C. WINEARLS) ; 11.1 Mechanisms of experimental and clinical renal scarring ; 11.2 Assessment and initial management of the patient with failing renal function ; 11.3 The patient with uraemia ; SECTION 12: THE PATIENT ON DIALYSIS (EDITOR: C. WINEARLS) ; 12.1 Dialysis strategies ; 12.2 Vascular access ; 12.3 Haemodialysis, haemofiltration, 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 for renal failure ; SECTION 13: THE TRANSPLANT PATIENT (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON) ; 13.1 Selection and Preparation of the recipient ; 13.2 Transplant immunology ; 13.3 Surgery and surgical complications ; SECTION 14: SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY (EDITOR: E. RITZ) ; 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 (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON) ; 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 (EDITOR: J.-P. GRUNFELD) ; 16.1 Strategies for the investigation of inherited renal disease ; 16.2 Cystic diseases ; 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 (EDITOR: J.-P. GRUNFELD) ; 17.1 The development of the kidney and renal dysplasia ; 17.2 Vesicoureteric 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 (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON) ; 18.1 Renal carcinoma and other tumours ; 18.2 Wilms' tumour ; 18.3 Tumours of the renal pelvis and ureter ; 18.4 Tumours of the bladder ; 18.5 Tumours of the prostate ; SECTION 19: PHARMACOLOGY AND DRUG USE IN KIDNEY PATIENTS (EDITOR: J. RITTER) ; 19.1 Drug-induced nephropathies ; 19.2 Handling of drugs in kidney disease ; 19.3 Action and clinical use of diuretics