Title | Prevention of Kidney Disease and Long-Term Survival [electronic resource] / edited by Morrell M. Avram |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1982 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4199-4 |
Descript | 354 p. 26 illus. online resource |
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