Dialysis and Transplantation: A Companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney
Dialysis and Transplantation: A Companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney
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透析和移植:布伦纳的伴侣
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发表时间:
2000
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39.2
通讯作者:
William Amend
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William Amend
Owen WF, Pereira BJG, Sayegh MH, eds. 682 pages. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 2000. $130.00. ISBN 0721676871. Order phone 800-545-2522. Field of medicine: Clinical nephrology. Format: Hardcover book. Audience: Clinical nephrologists. Purpose: To serve as a companion text to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney by providing more detailed discussions of therapy for end-stage renal failure. Content: The book covers a wide array of issues in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. For both treatments, separate chapters on pediatric patients are provided. Long-term management and problems are thoroughly reviewed, and critical care therapy for renal failure is discussed. Coverage of kidney transplantation management includes the pretransplantation and post-transplantation phases. Highlights: Unique topics, outstanding authorship, incisive editing, and well-constructed bibliographies make the book a worthy adjunct to general nephrology texts. Most chapters provide concise, excellent background discussions of physiology, biology, and immunology. The information on principles and practices of therapies is up to date, relevant, and evidence-based. It is an outstanding reference for such issues as drug dosing in patients undergoing dialysis or choice of appropriate dialytic method and prescription. Limitations: The color plates at the beginning of the book are ill placed; they would serve the reader better if they appeared in the related chapters. Some chapters contain too much animal data. One or more chapters on patient management leading up to development of end-stage renal disease would be useful and would provide a natural connection to the companion text. Related reading: Henrich's Principles and Practice of Dialysis (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999) is a compendium of dialysis information, but it is not as thoroughly referenced as Owen and colleagues' book. Danovitch's Handbook of Kidney Transplantation (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1996) also provides a good overview of transplantation but is not as detailed, especially in its references and review of pathophysiology. Reviewer: William Amend, MD, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California.