Completely updated and expanded for its second edition, the popular Oxford Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension provides wide-ranging and practical advice for the day-to-day management of all forms of renal disease. This is the essential resource for all those all those involved in the care of patients with kidney disease, regardless of their professional background or seniority.
Comprehensive, concise, easy to use, and with a strong focus on pragmatic guidance, this handbook will enable you to confidently manage both common and complex nephrological problems whenever, and wherever, they are encountered. This handbook covers all areas from early chronic kidney disease (CKD) through to dialysis and transplantation, with the chapters on AKI, CKD, transplantation and essential urology having been significantly expanded. Clear and concise, this handbook ensures that readers always have the information they need at their fingertips.
1: Clinical assessment of the renal patient
2: Acute kidney injury
3: Chronic kidney disease
4: Dialysis
5: Transplantation
6: Hypertension
7: Diseases of the kidney
8: The kidney in systemic disease
9: Essential urology
10: Fluids and electrolytes
11: Pregnancy and the kidney
12: Drugs and the kidney
13: Renal physiology
imon Steddon, Consultant Nephrologist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK, Alistair Chesser, Consultant Nephrologist, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals, UK, with John Cunningham, Professor of Nephrology, Royal Free & University College Hospitals, London, UK, and Neil Ashman, Consultant Nephrologist, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals, UK
Contributors:
Conor Byrne
Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals, London, UK
Ananda Chapagain
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Paramit Chowdhury
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK
Partha Das
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Stanley Fan
Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals, London, UK
Suzanne Forbes
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Scott Henderson
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Chris Kirwan
Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals, London, UK
Nicola Kumar
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK
Kieran McCafferty
Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals, London, UK
Emma O'Lone
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Marlies Ostermann
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK
Taryn Pile
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK
Ben Pullar
Specialist Registrar, London, UK
Michael Robson
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK
Claire Sharpe
King's College Hospital, London, UK
Rebecca Suckling
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals, Surrey, UK
Matt Varrier
Specialist Registrar, London, UK