A Proven Plan To Stop Painful Kidney Stones Dr. John Rodman, an internationally renowned expert in the field of kidney stone disease, offers you a plan that can eliminate this painful disease from your life forever. With Dr. Rodman’s proven plan, you’ll discover all you need to know about:

• What risk factors cause the different types of kidney stones
• Which type of stone you are prone to forming and how to prevent it
• Which traditional holiday foods trigger stone formation
• What seasons of the year put you at higher risk
• How to modify your diet and stay stone-free

This comprehensive book examines the complex interplay between endocrine and kidney disorders, and how this inter-relationship impacts patients with chronic kidney disease. Authored by experts in areas of endocrinology and nephrology, chapters cover a variety of topics, including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, thyroid dysfunction, gonadal disorders, dyslipidemia, mineral bone disorders, obesity, and pituitary disorders. These comorbidities are thoroughly examined and provide the clinician, researcher, and trainee with a greater understanding of the impact of endocrine disorders on kidney disease patients, the ability to identify persistent gaps in knowledge for future investigation, and move closer towards the goal of improving the health and survival of the chronic kidney disease population.

Akute Nierenschadigung Dieses Springer-Buch bietet alles Erforderliche fur das optimale Management der akuten Nierenschadigung. Fruhzeitige Diagnose, rasche Therapie, kompetente Nachbetreuung sind bei der ploetzlichen Verschlechterung der Nierenfunktion entscheidend fur UEberleben, Krankheitsverlauf und Prognose. Fur Nephrologen, Intensivmediziner, Internisten und Chirurgen: Personelle und logistische Voraussetzungen, Kooperation inter-/intradisziplinar und stationar/ambulant, kompetente Entscheidungshilfen fur den klinischen Alltag, Tipps &Tricks, technische Fallstricke, Fallbeispiele. Medizinisch und oekonomisch optimiert. Inhalt - Fruhzeitige Diagnose: Fruhwarnsystem, Algorithmen, Konsil-Checkliste, Risikopatienten identifizieren, bei welchen Patienten mussen welche Werte wann kontrolliert werden. - Rasche Therapie: optimale supportive bzw. kausale Therapie, Behandlungspfade, interdisziplinare Behandlung. - Kompetente Nachbetreuung: Organisation der ambulanten Nachsorge: fur wen und wie, praventive Massnahmen, Patientenausweis. Autoren Dr. Anja Haase-Fielitz Professor Dr. Michael Haase Klinik fur Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten, Diabetologie und Endokrinologie Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg

This book is a comprehensive guide to extracorporeal stone wave lithotripsy (ESWL) that includes a step-by-step approach for treating every possible kidney stone position. The book has an easy to read structure that will help readers understand ESWL quickly. Written by leading experts who have used ESWL to treat over 23000 patients, this book brings together years of practical knowledge and expertise in one concise volume. The book aims to utilise this knowledge and allow people to independently carry out kidney stone treatment on patients. Diagrams and illustrations show the methods and techniques needed in ESWL, as well as the potential complications.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Hitinder Gurm, will discuss Renal Disease and coronary, peripheral and structural interventions. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew Price. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Contrast induced nephropathy, Pathophysiology of CIN, Implications of Renal disease in patients undergoing peripheral arterial interventions, Implications of renal disease in patients undergoing Structural interventions, Different types of contrast media, Biomarkers of CIN, Pharmacological prophylaxis of CIN, A practical approach to preventing renal complications in the catheterization laboratory, and several other topics.