Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology, 3 Vols. w. CD-ROM

syndromes; 4.11 The patient with sickle cell disease; 4.12 The patient exposed to substance misuse, organic solvents, and smoking; SECTION 5: THE PATIENT WITH TUBULAR DISEASE (EDITOR: C. VAN YPERSELE); 5.1 The structure and function of tubules; 5.2 Isolated defects of tubular function; 5.3 Fanconi syndrome; 5.4 Renal tubular acidosis; 5.5 Hypokalaemic tubular disorders etc; 5.6 Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus; SECTION 6: THE PATIENT WITH CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL DISEASE (EDITOR: C. VAN YPERSELE); 6.1 Mechanisms of interstitial inflammation; 6.2 Analgesic nephropathy; 6.3 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the kidney; 6.4 Uric acid and the kidney; 6.5 Nephrotoxic metals; 6.6 Radiation nephropathy; 6.7 Balkan nephropathy; 6.8 Chinese Herbs (and other rare causes of interstitial nephropathy); SECTION 7: THE PATIENT WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTION (EDITOR: C. PONTICELLI); 7.1 Lower and upper urinary tract infections in the adult; 7.2 Urinary tract infections in infancy and childhood; 7.3 Renal tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Infections; 7.4 Schistosomiasis; 7.5 Fungal infections and the kidney; SECTION 8: THE PATIENT WITH RENAL STONE DISEASE (EDITOR: C. PONTICELLI); 8.1 Aetiological factors in stone formation; 8.2 The medical management of stone disease; 8.3 The surgical management of renal stones; 8.4 Nephrocalcinosis; 8.5 Renal and urinary tract stone disease in children; SECTION 9: THE PATIENT WITH RENAL HYPERTENSION (EDITOR: E. RITZ); 9.1 The structure and function of blood vessels; 9.2 Clinical approach to hypertension; 9.3 The kidney and control of blood pressure; 9.4 The effects of hypertension on renal vasculature and structure; 9.5 Ischaemic nephropathy; 9.6 Hypertension and unilateral renal parenchymal disease; 9.7 Renovascular hypertension; 9.8 Malignant hypertension; 9.9 The hypertensive child; SECTION 10: ACUTE RENAL FAILURE (EDITOR: C. WINEARLS); 10.1 Epidemiology of acute renal failure; 10.2 Acute renal failure: pathophysiology and prevention; 10.3 The clinical approach to the patient with acute renal failure; 10.4 Renal replacement methods in acute renal failure; 10.5 Dialysis and haemoperfusion treatment of acute poisoning; 10.6 Special acute renal failure problems; 10.7 Acute renal failure in a special setting; SECTION 11: THE PATIENT WITH FAILING RENAL FUNCTION (EDITORS: E. RITZ AND C. WINEARLS); 11.1 Mechanisms of experimental and clinical renal scarring; 11.2 Assessment and initial management of the patient with failing renal function; 11.3 The patient with uraemia; SECTION 12: THE PATIENT ON DIALYSIS (EDITOR: C. WINEARLS); 12.1 Dialysis strategies; 12.2 Vascular access; 12.3 Haemodialysis, haemofiltration, and complications of technique; 12.4 Peritoneal dialysis and complications of technique; 12.5 Adequacy of dialysis; 12.6 Medical management of the dialysis patient; 12.7 Psychological aspects of treatment for renal failure; SECTION 13: THE TRANSPLANT PATIENT (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON); 13.1 Selection and Preparation of the recipient; 13.2 Transplant immunology; 13.3 Surgery and surgical complications; SECTION 14: SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY (EDITOR: E. RITZ); 14.1 Chronic renal failure in children; 14.2 Chronic renal failure in the elderly; 14.3 The diabetic patient with impaired renal function; SECTION 15: THE PREGNANT PATIENT (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON); 15.1 The normal renal physiological changes which occur during pregnancy; 15.2 Renal complications that may occur in pregnancy; 15.3 Pregnancy in patients with underlying renal disease; 15.4 Pregnancy-induced hypertension; SECTION 16: THE PATIENT WITH INHERITED DISEASE (EDITOR: J.-P. GRUNFELD); 16.1 Strategies for the investigation of inherited renal disease; 16.2 Cystic diseases; 16.3 Nephronophthisis; 16.4 Inherited glomerular diseases; 16.5 Inherited metabolic diseases of the kidney; 16.6 Renal involvement in tuberous sclerosis and von Hippel-Lindau disease; 16.7 Some rare syndromes with renal involvement; SECTION 17: THE PATIENT WITH STRUCTURAL AND CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES (EDITOR: J.-P. GRUNFELD); 17.1 The development of the kidney and renal dysplasia; 17.2 Vesicoureteric reflux and reflux nephropathy; 17.3 The patient with urinary tract obstruction; 17.4 Congenital abnormalities of the urinary tract; 17.5 Medullary sponge kidney; SECTION 18: THE PATIENT WITH MALIGNANCY OF THE KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT (EDITOR: A. M. DAVISON); 18.1 Renal carcinoma and other tumours; 18.2 Wilms' tumour; 18.3 Tumours of the renal pelvis and ureter; 18.4 Tumours of the bladder; 18.5 Tumours of the prostate; SECTION 19: PHARMACOLOGY AND DRUG USE IN KIDNEY PATIENTS (EDITOR: J. RITTER); 19.1 Drug-induced nephropathies; 19.2 Handling of drugs in kidney disease; 19.3 Action and clinical use of diuretics