Wolters Kluwer Heatlh/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2010
vi, 378 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Review of renal physiology -- Regulation of salt and water balance -- Disorders of water balance : hyponatremia, hypernatremia, and polyuria -- Edematous states and the use of diuretics -- Acid-base physiology and metabolic alkalosis -- Metabolic acidosis -- Disorders of potassium balance -- Urinalysis and approach to the patient with renal disease -- Pathogenesis of major glomerular and vascular diseases -- Tubulointerstitial diseases -- Acute renal failure -- Progression of chronic renal failure -- Signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure