Acute Renal Failure in Practice, edited by practising renal physicians, is the essential guide to the clinical management of patients with acute renal failure and its complex, life-threatening metabolic sequelae. This book explains the workings of the normal kidney, illustrates the aetiology and pathophysiology of acute renal disease, and provides practical treatment guidelines relevant to the day-to-day needs of the practising clinician. There is a clear emphasis on the underlying pathogenic mechanisms naturally leading to a full understanding of the rationale behind the recommended treatments. Each chapter is illustrated throughout by coloured tables and diagrams, and incorporates unique easy-to-follow "practice points" algorithms which detail, step-by-step, the precise treatment protocols required to succeed in caring for these complex patients. An entire section is dedicated to dealing with patients who develop acute renal failure in specific hospital settings, such as the labour ward or intensive care unit. Doctors working in a wide range of acute medical specialities frequently encounter patients with acute renal failure and will therefore find this an invaluable clinical handbook.

Acute Renal Failure in Practice, edited by practising renal physicians, is the essential guide to the clinical management of patients with acute renal failure and its complex, life-threatening metabolic sequelae. This book explains the workings of the normal kidney, illustrates the aetiology and pathophysiology of acute renal disease, and provides practical treatment guidelines relevant to the day-to-day needs of the practising clinician. There is a clear emphasis on the underlying pathogenic mechanisms naturally leading to a full understanding of the rationale behind the recommended treatments. Each chapter is illustrated throughout by coloured tables and diagrams, and incorporates unique easy-to-follow "practice points" algorithms which detail, step-by-step, the precise treatment protocols required to succeed in caring for these complex patients. An entire section is dedicated to dealing with patients who develop acute renal failure in specific hospital settings, such as the labour ward or intensive care unit. Doctors working in a wide range of acute medical specialities frequently encounter patients with acute renal failure and will therefore find this an invaluable clinical handbook.

En La Sonrisa de una Trapera Paul Glynn nos introduce a Satoko Kitahara, una mujer japonesa de familia aristocratica y rica, que abandono todo para vivir y trabajar con las gentes sin hogar de Tokio tras la II guerra mundial, quienes se ganaban la vida como traperos. Murio en la pobreza a la edad de solo 29 anos. Conocida tambien como Maria de la Ciudad de las Hormigas, Satoko se cuenta entre las cincuenta mujeres japonesas que "mas conmovieron a la nacion japonesa durante los 62 anos de reinado del Emperador Hirohito", por su labor de reconciliacion entre diferentes clases sociales y religiones. La prensa de su tiempo la describio como una testiga heroica contra el materialismo egoista que estaba invadiendo el Japon en los anos 50. Su profunda fe cristiana, enraizada en una educacion y herencia totalmente japonesas, continua inspirando a un circulo creciente de admiradores.

Paul Glynn nos ofrece la biografia del doctor Takashi Nagai, un medico japones que ha pasado a ser una celebridad en su pais por sus investigaciones sobre radiologia y por su testimonio cristiano. Si el libro resulta muy interesante al recrear tanto la aventura personal del biografiado como el contexto del Japon catolico en la primera mitad de nuestro siglo, no cabe duda de que alcanza las maximas cotas de dramatismo en los capitulos dedicados a describir el dia en que "el sol se torno negro y la lluvia se convirtio en veneno", es decir, el dia en que Estados Unidos arrojo la bomba atomica sobre Nagasaki, destruyendo una ciudad que era la cuna del cristianismo japones, y era considerada la "Napoles de Oriente", aniquilando asi a 72.000 inocentes. Aunque su proposito es servir a la causa de la edificacion cristiana, el libro resulta conmovedor. Su impacto viene atestiguado por sus numerosas ediciones en ingles, japones, frances, polaco, italiano y portugues.