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001 2007927376
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060 00 $a2008 D-980
060 10 $aWJ 300$bA267 2008
245 04 $aThe aging kidney in health and disease /$cedited by Juan F. Macías Núñez, J. Stewart Cameron, Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos.
260 $a[New York] :$bSpringer,$cc2008.
300 $axxii, 553 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHolistic approach to the geriatric patient: geriatric evaluation -- Incidence of renal diseases in an acute geriatric unit -- Anatomical changes in the aging kidney -- Biology of the aging process and its clinical consequences -- Physiology of the healthy aging kidney -- The mechanisms of age-associated glomerular sclerosis -- Endothelial function in the healthy aged -- Renal handling of water and electrolytes in the old and old-old healthy aged -- Renal handling of uric acid, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, and acid base in the elderly -- Dysnatremias: diagnosis and treatment -- Hypertension in the elderly -- The renin-angiotensin system and the aging process -- Prevention of chronic renal diseases in the elderly -- Obstructive uropathy and benign prostatic hyperplasia -- Urinary tract infection -- Incontinence in the elderly -- The diagnosis of renal diseases in elderly patients -- Diabetic nephropathy -- Renal cystic disease in the elderly -- Renal vasculitis in the elderly -- Acute renal failure in the aged -- Multiorganic dysfunction syndrome in the elderly critically ill patient -- Etiology, diagnosis, and management of chronic renal insufficiency in the aged -- Substitutive treatments of end-stage renal diseases in the elderly: dialysis -- Substitutive treatments of end-stage renal diseases in the elderly: renal transplantation -- Pharmacokinetics in the geriatric population -- Quality of life in elderly patients with renal failure -- Ethical dilemmas in geriatric uremia therapy.
650 0 $aKidney diseases in old age.
650 0 $aGeriatric nephrology.
650 12 $aKidney Diseases.
650 22 $aAged.
650 22 $aKidney$xphysiology.
700 1 $aMacias Nuñez, Juan F.
700 1 $aCameron, J. Stewart$q(John Stewart)
700 1 $aOreopoulos, D. G.$q(Dimitrios G.)