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Present and future therapies for end-stage renal disease / editors, Eli A. Friedman, Mary C. Mallappallil.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Regenerative medicine, artificial cells and nanomedicine ; v. 2.
- Regenerative medicine, artificial cells and nanomedicine ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronic renal failure--Treatment.
- Chronic renal failure.
- Hemodialysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey : World Scientific, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written by an interdisciplinary team of experts, this book contains historical information as well as current update on renal replacement therapy. New technology and techniques are presented in a concise, easy-to-read style that keeps the reader interested. The contributors include physicians who practice uremia therapy since its conception to more recent graduates, along with surgeons, pioneers and physicians who are patients themselves, thus giving readers the broadest perspective. The aim of the book is to update the reader on renal replacement therapy as of 2009. It is a textbook that can
- Contents:
- Peritoneal dialysis: past and current practices / Mary C. Mallappallil
- Hemodialysis / Yalemzewd Woredekal
- Kidney transplantation / Fasika Tedla
- Home hemodialysis: present and future therapies / Barbara G. Delano
- Hemofiltration / Halim S. Ghali
- Self-care in-center hemodialysis / Susan H. Bray
- Opting for death rather than dialysis in chronic renal failure / Anthony J. Joseph
- Ethical concerns in marketing kidneys / Amy L. Friedman
- The wearable artificial kidney: a new paradigm in the treatment of ESRD / Victor Gura
- Xenotransplantation / Moro O. Salifu, Syed Shah, and Subodh Saggi
- Can the bowel serve as a kidney? / Eli A. Friedman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612758454
- 9789814467377
- 9814467375
- 9781282758452
- 1282758454
- 9789814280037
- 9814280038
- OCLC:
- 681585026
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