Thriving with kidney disease A practical guide to taking care of your kidneys and yourself
Book - 2022
"Using his forty years of experience and knowledge in medical research and his own journey with kidney failure, the author provides the latest information from the scientific literature on kidney diseases and treatment. He provides patients with a road map to navigate the choices and difficulties involved with having kidney disease, from diagnosis to transplant, to help them make informed choices from a patient's point of view. For the second edition, the author thoroughly revised the content and added approximately 12,000 new words"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Item Description
- Revision of: Kidney disease. c2011.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781421442891
9781421442907
- Foreword by Ronald D. Perrone, MD
- Preface
- Understanding chronic kidney disease
- What kidneys do
- Why kidneys fail
- Diagnosing and managing chronic kidney disease
- Preventing, postponing, and treating chronic kidney disease
- Dialysis
- Transplantation
- Future treatment options
- Epilogue.