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Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology (3-Volume Set)
from: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.61
EAN: 9780192624130
Edition: 2
ISBN: 019262413X
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 2808
Publication Date: January 15, 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Editorial Review:
The first edition of the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology established itself as the leading clinical reference text for practicing nephrologists worldwide. The second edition comes five years later, during which time there have been significant advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of renal disease and in therapy. Placing existing treatment on a firm scientific basis or stopping ineffective or dangerous treatment is as important as introducing proven new therapies, and all the contributors have taken this fully into account.
During the development of the second edition all the first edition chapters were critically reviewed by practicing nephrologists and their suggestions have been incorporated to make the text even more practically useful and logically arranged. Expert topic editors for pediatrics, pathology, physiology and pharmacology have checked all relevant sections from their own perspective.
This edition is the only major textbook of nephrology to be printed in full colour throughout. Reproduction of the histological and clinical illustrations in their natural colours reveals their true significance, and there are numerous new colour illustrations.
There are new chapters on: Imaging tactics - a rationale; Structural basis of glomerular function; Symptomless patient with abnormal urine; Immunotactoid (fibrillary) nephritis; Mechanisms of interstitial disease; and Host factors in the pathogenesis of urinary tract infection. The sections on acute and chronic renal failure have been reorganized with new chapters on the Epidemiology of acute renal failure, Dialysis and haemoperfusion treatment in acute poisoning, and Genesis of the uraemic syndrome. In addition the chapter on Gastrointestinal effects in chronic renal failure includes a new discussion of the various forms of hepatitis. A new section on Acute renal failure in special settings includes new chapters on pregnancy, tropical illness, and the elderly. In the inherited diseases section there is a new chapter on Inherited disorders of purine metabolism, and in the structural diseases section a new chapter on Medullary sponge kidney. The section on malignant disease has new chapters on Tumours of the bladder, and Tumours of the prostate. The result is an outstanding up- to-date, international clinical text which no clinical nephrologist can afford to be without.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disappointingly obtuse and bulky
I have often used the OTN, but rarely been impressed by its relevance or its lucidity. Some chapters seem to specialise in wading through an interesting and important subject with remarkably dull and often inapposite focus on matters of little real clinical interest, and often its lengthy reviews end in inconclusive summaries. Prof Barsoum's chapter is one of the shining exceptions.
Probably a necessary purchase for a practising renal physician keen to have comprehensive sources, but for me ... Read More
Rating:  - a must have
very expansive more then other bibles american style (brenner and scrhier)
i love oxf txtbooks couse in spite the heaviness they are all well balanced between the state of the art and the practical point of view.
The nephro book is the end stage of reference for a ph interested abt the argument.
Many prefer the work of brenner but this book is more oriented in basical sci
and , it is probably a personal point of view, not so incisive in terapeutical approach.
probably ... Read More
Rating: - oxford textbook
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