TitleControversies in acute kidney injury / volume editors, John A. Kellum, Claudio Ronco, Jean-Louis Vincent
Imprint Basel : Karger, c2011
Edition 1st ed
Descript vii, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Unveiling current controversies in acute kidney injury -- Prerenal azotemia syndromes -- Analysis of the prerenal contributions to acute kidney injury -- The role of tubuloglomerular feedback in the pathogenesis of acute kidney injury -- Can we identify prerenal physiology and does it matter? -- Cardiorenal syndrome: a complex series of combined heart/kidney disorders -- Hepatorenal syndrome -- Dying 'of' or 'with' acute kidney injury -- Clinical consequences of acute kidney Iijury -- Renal-pulmonary crosstalk -- Acute kidney injury, acute lung injury and septic shock: how does mortality compare? -- Sepsis and acute Kidney injury are bidirectional -- Pathophysiology of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury -- Pathophysiology of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury: the role of global renal blood flow and renal vascular resistance -- Septic acute kidney injury: the glomerular arterioles -- Pathogenesis of acute kidney injury: effects of remote tissue damage on the kidney -- A role for oxidative stress -- Pathophysiology of acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease: maladaptive repair -- Prevention/treatment/rehabilitation: what's on the horizon? -- Models of preventable disease: contrast-induced nephropathy and cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury -- Acute kidney injury in children: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation -- Delayed kidney allograft function-what does it tell us about acute kidney injury? -- Acute kidney injury leading to chronic kidney disease and long-term outcomes of acute kidney injury: the best opportunity to mitigate acute kidney injury? -- Role of microvesicles in acute kidney injury -- Renal support -- Controversies in acute kidney injury: effects of fluid overload on outcome -- Does renal replacement therapy improve outcome? controversies in acute kidney injury -- Why did dose trials fail? -- Renal replacement therapy: when to start -- Renal replacement therapy for acute renal injury: we need better therapy -- Author index -- Subject index


SUBJECT

  1. Acute Kidney Injury -- physiopathology
  2. Acute Kidney Injury -- therapy
  3. Renal Replacement Therapy

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