Therapy of Renal Diseases and Related Disorders

One: Disorders of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance.- 1. Treatment of hypoosmolar and hyperosmolar states.- 2. Polyuria syndromes.- 3. Treatment of edematous states.- 4. Therapy and management of acute renal failure.- 5. Disorders of potassium metabolism.- 6. Hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia.- 7. Hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia.- 8. Hyper- and hypophosphatemia.- 9. Metabolic alkalosis.- 10. Metabolic acidosis.- 11. Renal tubular acidosis.- 12. Respiratory acid-base disorders.- Two: Intrinsic Parenchymal Disease.- A. Glomerular.- 13. The acute glomerulonephritis syndrome.- 14. The management of the nephrotic syndrome.- 15. The treatment of rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis and of Goodpasture’s syndrome.- B. Tubulo-interstitial.- 16. The management of urinary tract infections.- 17. Vesicoureteral reflux and reflux nephropathy.- 18. Management of genitourinary tuberculosis.- Three: Renal Involvement in Systemic Disease.- 19. Systemic lupus erythematosus.- 20. Vasculitic diseases of the kidney.- 21. Noninflammatory vascular diseases of the kidney.- 22. Hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.- 23. Renal involvement in dysproteinemias.- 24. The hyperuricemic nephropathies.- 25. Therapy of renal disorders in liver disease.- 26. Management of renal complications of pregnancy: Management of pregnancy in renal disease, in patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis and in renal transplant patients.- 27. Therapy of diabetic renal disease.- Four: Hereditary and Congenital Disease.- 28. Management of renal cystic disorders.- 29. Therapy of renal disorders in sickle hemoglobinemia.- Five: Neoplasia.- 30. Neoplasia: Cancers of the kidney, renal pelvis and ureter, bladder and prostate.- Six: Chemical and Physical Injuries.- 31.Therapy of toxic nephropathies.- 32. Treatment of acute drug intoxications with hemodialysis and hemoperfusion.- Seven: Uremia.- 33. Nutritional management.- 34. Cardiovascular complications of uremia and dialysis.- 35. The management of renal insufficiency.- 36. Management of renal osteodystrophy.- 37. Peritoneal dialysis.- A. Hemodialysis.- 38. Dialysis access surgery.- 39. Dialyzers and water treatment.- 40. Dialysis, ultrafiltration and hemofiltration.- 41. Use of drugs in uremia and dialysis.- B. Transplantation and transplantation complications.- 42. Donor and recipient selection in renal transplantation.- 43. Immunosuppression and treatment of rejection in renal transplantation.- 44. Renal tubular and metabolic dysfunction following kidney homotransplantation.- 45. Transplantation complications: Infectious, malignant, surgical.- 46. Nephrolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis.- Eight: Miscellaneous.- 47. The catheter.- 48. Non-surgical management of vesicourethral dysfunction.