Therapy for chronic kidney diseaseThis publication is a record of some of the outstanding presentations given at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT). The meeting was held in Kobe in 2018, celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the JSDT as a voluntary academic association.
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Livres de la collection - Contributions to Nephrology
To improve care through prevention and early identificationTelemedicine and remote patient monitoring are innovative tools to provide remote transmission, interpretation, and storage of data for review by the care team. These tools allow for accurate home monitoring of patients enabling the team to improve care through prevention and early identification of problems.
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The number of dialysis patients, and their ages, continues to increase globally. This creates major issues such as rising medical costs in an aging population, how to best manage end-of-life care, and how to train the various practitioners involved in dialysis care.
[lire la quatrième du livre Recent Advances in Dialysis Therapy in Japan]
Connecting the past and the presentContinuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT) started off as an alternative to hemo- or peritoneal dialysis.
[lire la quatrième du livre 40 Years of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy]
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health burden with associated high economic costs to the health system. Main factors are the increasing number of patients with diabetes and hypertension and the aging of the population. CKD has been associated with increased risks of cardiovascular morbidity, premature mortality, and/or decreased quality of life.
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An important tool for improving patient care and outcomesAcute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome that is prevalent among hospitalized patients. In recent years, occurrence of AKI events has risen due to a growing susceptibility of fragile and elderly subjects and an increase in the use of complex procedures such as cardiovascular surgery and imaging techniques.
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Hyperuricemia and renal damage - mechanisms, prevention and treatmentHyperuricemia is often associated with life-style related disorders such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, which, in turn, are major causes of CKD. Improved management of hyperuricemia is thus expected to be beneficial for both the general population and CKD patients.
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Focusing on hot topics in nephrologyAfter years of stagnation, much has been happening in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases. This book contains a comprehensive review of the main developments in AKI, CKD, hemodialysis and kidney transplantation.
The section on AKI deals with the key innovations in extracorporeal technologies.
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A compilation of cutting-edge research
This book brings together papers presented both during the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) and the 34th Congress of the International Society of Blood Purification (ISBP), held in Osaka in June and in Hiroshima in September 2016, respectively.
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A practical manual for physicians and nursesUltrasound imaging techniques are an indispensable complement to physical examination, which is often frustrating, if not useless, for diagnosing kidney problems.
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A concise reference work for physicians and nursesAcute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious disorder in which sudden impairment of kidney function occurs secondary to one or more of a variety of underlying conditions and exposures. It is very common in (elderly) ICU patients and associated with very high mortality.
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183 Podocytopathy
Editors: Z.-H. Liu, Nanjing; J.C. He, New York, N.Y.
VIII + 264 p., 31 fig., 29 in color, 10 tab., hard cover, 2014. ISBN 978-3-318-02650-4
184 Patient Safety in Dialysis Access
Editors: M.K. Widmer, Bern; J. Malik, Prague
X270 p., 58 fig., 48 in color, 35 tab., hard cover, 2015.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing worldwide public health problem resulting from the increasing number of patients with diabetes and hypertension, but also from the aging of the population.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Stroke, on the other hand, is not only a major player in cardiovascular disease, but it also has strong two-way relationships with CKD.
Moreover, subclinical cerebral abnormalities are also associated with CKD.
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Associated with both acute kidney injury (AKI) and cardio-renal syndromes (CRS), new biomarkers represent both a popular arec of investigation and a new opportunity for advancement of therapy.
This book contains the resolutions of the most recent ADQI conferences on biomarkers in AKI (Dublin) and on CRS (Venise).
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Chronic kidney disease is a global major health issue that ultimately leads to end-stage renal disease, a devastating condition requiring costly renal replacement therapy.
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The enormous progress made during the lest decade has resulted in a better conceptuel understanding of minera) ion metabolism in general. With regard to chronic kidney disease, the two mort affected nutrients are phosphate and vitamin D.
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