| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 165 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
How is the urinalysis helpful in patients with kidney disease? -- How should changes in plasma creatinine be interpreted? -- What is a fractional excretion (and how does measuring it help in clinical practice)? -- What is the urine albumin to creatinine ratio? (or is it protein to creatinine ratio?) -- What is the meaning of the urine to plasma creatinine ratio? -- Is it helpful to diagnose a triple acid-base disturbance? (or is it just a mental exercise?) -- Why are disorders of sodium concentration so difficult? -- What is free water clearance and how useful is it? -- How does one interpret the urine anion gap and urine osmolal gap? -- Is it 'acute renal failure' or 'acute kidney injury'? -- What exactly is dialysis and when is it needed? -- When does metabolic acidosis require treatment with bicarbonate? -- Is there any advantage to colloids vs. crystalloids for volume repletion? -- Is computed tomography (CT) with contrast or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with contrast preferred in patients with chronic kidney disease? -- Is there a risk to rapidly lowering the plasma potassium in patients with hyperkalemia? -- Should calcium-based phosphate binders be used in patients with chronic kidney disease? -- Which renal cysts require follow-up evaluation? -- Are renin angiotensin aldosterone system blockers friends or foes of the kidneys? -- Does a patient with a mild decrease in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) really have a disease? -- Why are kidney stones a nephrologic as well as a urologic disease? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Kidneys -- Diseases -- Diagnosis.
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Kidneys -- Diseases -- Diagnosis. |
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Kidneys -- Diseases -- Treatment.
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Kidneys -- Diseases -- Treatment. |
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Nephrology.
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Nephrology. |
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Kidney function tests.
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Kidney function tests. |
| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leehey, David J. Nephrology rounds. First edition. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2016] 9781496319708 (DLC) 2015040255 (OCoLC)925266504 |
| ISBN |
9781496347848 |
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1496347846 |
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9781496319708 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1496319702 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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