Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney - Softcover

Clarkson MB, Michael R.; Brenner MD AM(Hon) DSc(Hon) DMSc(Hon) FRCP(Lond Hon), Barry M.; Magee, Ciara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416066403 ISBN 13: 9781416066408

Publisher: Saunders, 2010

Synopsis

Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney distills the essential clinical information from the latest edition of the seminal text on kidney diseases and their management. Michael R. Clarkson, Ciara Magee, and Barry M. Brenner detail the key pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues in clinical nephrology, including interventional nephrology, endocrine aspects of kidney disease, and plasmapheresis.

Diagnose, treat, and manage both common and uncommon disorders.

Find clinical knowledge quickly and easily thanks to convenient tables throughout the text.

Choose the best option of the many techniques available through discussions of indications for laboratory tests and imaging studies.

Enhance your clinical acumen with coverage of new topics such as risk factors and kidney disease, nephron endowment, interventional nephrology, plasmapheresis, xenotransplantation, stem cells in renal biology and medicine, and more.

Stay current thanks to two new sections―Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Kidney Disease and Frontiers in Kidney Disease―that include topics such as stem cell and genomics.

About this title

Review:

"Like the other five companions to the parent textbook, this is a source of immediate, concise, current, and clinically relevant information written at an accessible level.the well-known authors address a broad audience of practitioners who treat patients with kidney diseases: medical students, residents, fellows, internists, urologists, and primary care physicians."- "Doody's Book Review- Weighted Numerical Score: 95 - 4 Stars! "

About this edition

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1416066403
• ISBN 13: 9781416066408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 928