عنوان

Prevention of kidney disease and long-term survival.

1468442015

9781468442014

b544311

Prevention of kidney disease and long-term survival.

[Book]

Morrell M Avram

[Place of publication not identified]

Springer

2012

I. Nutrition and Divalent Ion in Retarding Progression.- 1. Low-Protein Diets and the Nondialyzed Uremic Patient.- 2. Delay of Progression of Renal Failure.- 3. Phosphate and Prevention of Renal Failure.- 4. Improvement of Acidosis in Long-Term Dietary Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure.- II. Glomerular Damage and Its Prevention.- 5. Hyperfiltration as a Major Causative Factor in Initiation and Progression of Glomerulosclerosis.- 6. Aggravation of Glomerulonephritis by Hypertension.- III. Genesis and Prevention of Diabetic Nephropathy: New Concepts.- 7. Relationship Between Hyperglycemia and Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis.- 8. The Role of Hemodynamic Alterations in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Glomerulopathy.- IV. Use and Misuse of Pharmacologic Agents in Kidney Disease.- 9. Prevention of Glomerular Damage with Pharmacologic Agents.- 10. Prognosis and Prevention of Renal Failure Induced by Toxins.- V. New Insights into Complications of Uremia.- 11. Functional Abnormalities of the Autonomic Nervous System in Uremic and Dialysis Patients.- 12. The Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Possible Prevention of Uremic Bone Disease.- VI. Uremia Therapy and the Long-Term Dialysis Patient: Natural History and Clinical, Psychological, and Economic Characteristics of the Over-Decade Frontier.- 13. Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure in Seattle: The First 20 Years.- 14. The Long Island College Hospital Experience with the Decade or Longer Hemodialysis Patient.- 15. Pathophysiology of Anephric Patients on Dialysis Over a Decade: Significance of Relative Hypotension.- 16. Cardiovascular Effects of a Decade or Longer of Mainteneance Hemodialysis: A Noninvasive Study.- 17. Over-Decade Maintenance Hemodialysis: Its Effect on Uremic Anemia and Coagulation.- 18. The Effects of Long-Term Hemodialysis on Gastrointestinal Function.- 19. Pulmonary Function and Arterial Blood Gas in the Long-Term Hemodialysis Patient.- 20. Musculoskeletal Abnormalities of the Ten-Year Hemodialysis Patient.- 21. NIH, Kidney Research, and the Patient with Renal Disease.- 22. Patients on Hemodialysis for Over Ten Years.- 23. Personality and Psychological Factors Influencing Survivorship on Hemodialysis.- VII. The Transplantation Alternative.- 24. Long-Term Survivors After Renal Transplantation.- 25. Brighter Outlook for Kidney Transplantation.- 26. Triggering Signals for T-Cell Activation in Renal Transplantation.- Author Index.

Morrell M Avram

Morrell M Avram

[Book]

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