Nephrology rounds /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer,
2016
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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?
