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Biomarkers of Kidney Disease
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 102.95A biomarker is a molecule that is measured as a marker of normal biological processes, disease processes or the response to a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention. Kidney diseases like acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, glomerular disease, renal cancer and preeclampsia still have a high morbidity. Measurement of biomarkers... more...
Nutrition Therapy for Chronic Kidney Disease
CRC Press 2012; US$ 99.95This book presents variations in nutritional therapy through the five stages of chronic kidney disease. Chapters cover history of renal disease management and pathophysiology; electrolyte and acid-based disorders; acute renal disease; dialysis techniques; children/adolescents with chronic kidney disease; pregnancy with chronic kidney disease; bone... more...
Uremic Toxins
Wiley 2012; US$ 120.00Reviews all the latest basic and clinical research findings With contributions from leading international experts in the field, this book is dedicated to all facets of uremic toxins research, including low molecular weight solutes, protein-bound solutes, and middle molecules. Moreover, it covers everything from basic mass spectrometry research... more...
DIALYSIS
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 218.00This book describes the past, present and future of dialysis and dialysis-related renal replacement therapies so that the reader can acquire a firm grasp of the medical management of acute and chronic renal failure.By becoming thoroughly conversant with the past and present of dialysis, a health care professional will be in a much better position to... more...
Diabetes
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 23.99Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly controlled. Some of the complications may include coma, cardiovascular disease,... more...
Nutritional Management of Renal Disease
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 119.95This translational text offers in-depth reviews of the metabolic and nutritional disorders that are prevalent in patients with renal disease. Chapter topics address the growing epidemic of obesity and metabolic syndrome. Each chapter integrates basic and clinical approaches, from cell biology and genetics to diagnosis, patient management and treatment.... more...
Seldin and Giebisch's The Kidney
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 400.00A classic nephrology reference for over 25years, Seldin & Giebisch?s The Kidney , is the acknowledged authority on renal physiology and pathophysiology. In this 5 th edition, such new and powerful disciplines as genetics and cell biology have been deployed to deepen and widen further the explanatory framework. Not only have previous chapters been... more...
Around the World with Nephrology
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 140.00This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of dialysis, and he eventually embarked on a career-long practice in the field, where he contributed... more...
Drugs, Enzymes and Receptors of the Renin-Angiotensin System
CRC Press, A Martin Dunitz Book 2000; US$ 179.95A novel and unique feature of this book is that a commentary on each chapter, written by an independent peer or peers, is included to present alternative views, greater depth and a different perspective. more...
Diabetes and the Kidney
Wiley 2005; US$ 81.00Diabetes, when untreated, leads to damage to several organs within the body, particularly the kidneys. This damage may also go undetected for several years, until the later stages of kidney failure are reached, with a need for kidney replacement therapy - either dialysis or transplantation. Such progression is not inevitable. With good management,... more...









