Paul E. Teschan

PROPHYLACTIC HEMODIALYSIS IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE RENAL FAILURE

Excerpt INTRODUCTION Following the introduction of clinically usable artificial kidneys by Kolff,1Alwall,2Murray3and Skeggs and Leonards,4and the pioneering clinical investigations by Merrill,5, 6h...

Renal, Metabolic, and Circulatory Responses to Heat and Exercise: Studies in Military Recruits During Summer Training, with Implications for Acute Renal Failure

Abstract Acute renal failure is known to occur in military recruits during summer basic training. The effect of these summer training exercises on the urinary sediment, renal excretion of heme pigm...

Diseases Of The Kidney, ed 2.

Expanding knowledge of renal diseases since the first edition clearly warranted this re-presentation. The updated information is comprehensive and authoritative; it is presented with consistent clarity by the large number of contributors. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of most chapters is the tightlyknit connection between underlying concept, relevant experimental and clinical evidence, and recommended clinical management. While each of the authors could have written more theoretically for his own specialized field and readership, each has also reflected his extensive practical experience; hence most chapters continue to be practical and useful for clinical decision-making. Where progress has been limited, that fact is stated and the version in the first edition is changed very little. In the first ten chapters, the reader is oriented to renal structure and function by means of experimental and clinical methods, to the consequences of renal failure in terms of functional derangements in nephrons, blood, bones, and

Progress in Nephrology.

Progress in Nephrology is a remarkable volume in several respects. As edited proceedings of a symposium dated 1967, the topics and data are still distinctly current. A delay in publication is amply justified by the highly literate translation of the many originally German texts into English. The freshness of most contributions is further enhanced in presentation of original data by recognized authorities, a feature by which the volume also gains its principal value as a sourcebook in renal pathophysiology. It matters not at all that some of the same authors and data have been published elsewhere. Accordingly, the volume is clearly not for the general internist, but so intertwined are clinical and renal functional issues in nephrology that those specialists will be well served by this concentrated compendium of continuing education. The topics represent at least the current salients of nephrologic knowledge and investigation: renal excretion of uric acid, ammonia,