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Aging Kidney in Health and Disease.pdf (8,632 KB)


Aging Kidney in Health and Disease.pdf (8,632 KB)  

Contents
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Foreword . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Chapter 1. Holistic Approach to the Geriatric Patient: Geriatric
Evaluation . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David Galinsky, Roberto Kaplan, and Tzvi Dwolatzky
Chapter 2. Incidence of Renal Diseases in an Acute Geriatric Unit . . 19
Cristina Alonso Bouzón, Gonzalo Bravo Fernández de
Araoz and Francisco Guillén Llera
Chapter 3. Anatomical Changes in the Aging Kidney  . . . . . . . . . 39
Xin J. Zhou, Zoltan G. Laszik and Fred G. Silva
Chapter 4. Biology of the Aging Process and Its Clinical
Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Juan-Florencio Macías-Núñez, José-Manuel Ribera
Casado, Mónica de la Fuente del Rey, Gustavo Barja
Quiroga, Jesus A. F. Tresguerres, Carmen Ariznavarreta
and José M. López-Novoa
Chapter 5. Physiology of the Healthy Aging Kidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Juan-Florencio Macías-Núñez and José M. López-Novoa
Chapter 6. The Mechanisms of Age-Associated Glomerular
Sclerosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 113
José M. López-Novoa
Chapter 7. Endothelial Function in the Healthy Aged. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas, Mariam El Assar De La
Fuente and Marta Castro Rodríguez
Chapter 8. Renal Handling of Water and Electrolytes in the Old
and Old-Old Healthy Aged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 141
Carlos G. Musso and Juan-Florencio Macías-Núñez
Chapter 9. Renal Handling of Uric Acid, Magnesium, Phosphorus,
Calcium, and Acid Base in the Elderly . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 155
Carlos G. Musso, Joaquin Antonio Alvarez Gregori,
and Juan-Florencio Macías-Núñez
Chapter 10. Dysnatremias: Diagnosis and Treatment . . . . . 173
Steven Achinger and Juan Carlos Ayus
Chapter 11. Hypertension in the Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
José A. Garcia-Donaire, José Luís Rodicio Díaz,
Prof. M. Ruilope
Chapter 12. The Renin-Angiotensin System and the Aging Process . . . 209
Léon Ferder and Manuel Martinez-Maldonado
Chapter 13. Prevention of Chronic Renal Diseases in the Elderly . . . . . 231
Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Norberto Perico,
Piero Ruggenenti, and Giuseppe Remuzzi
Chapter 14. Obstructive Uropathy and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia . . 257
Gerasimos Alivizatos and Andreas Skolarikos
Chapter 15. Urinary Tract Infection . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 273
Lindsay E. Nicolle
Chapter 16. Incontinence in the Elderly . . . . . . . . .. . 293
Michael Ingber, Pradeep Nagaraju,
and Ananias Diokno
Chapter 17. The Diagnosis of Renal Diseases in Elderly Patients.
What Role Is There for Biopsy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Franco Vendemia
Chapter 18. Diabetic Nephropathy . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 329
Alessia Fornoni, Carlos Leon, and Leopoldo Raij
Chapter 19. Renal Cystic Disease in the Elderly . .. . 347
Roser Torra Balcells
Chapter 20. Renal Vasculitis in the Elderly . . . . . . . . 373
David Jayne
Chapter 21. Acute Renal Failure in the Aged . . . . . 385
Carlos G. Musso, José M. López-Novoa, José Carlos
Fernandez and Juan-Florencio Macías-Núñez
Chapter 22. Multiorganic Dysfunction Syndrome in the Elderly
Critically Ill Patient . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Monica Bonello, Zaccaria Ricci, Dimitris Petras, Nereo
Zamperetti, and Claudior Ronco
Chapter 23. Etiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Chronic Renal
Insufficiency in the Aged. . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
Jordan L. Rosenstock and Michael F. Michelis
Chapter 24. Substitutive Treatments of End-Stage Renal Diseases in
the Elderly: Dialysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . 443
Nada Dimkovic and Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos
Chapter 25. Substitutive Treatments of End-Stage Renal Diseases in
the Elderly: Renal Transplantation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Ali Alobaidli and Sarbjit V. Jassal
Chapter 26. Pharmacokinetics in the Geriatric Population . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Alfonso Dominguez-Gil Hurlé, M.J. García Sánchez,
M.M. Fernández De Gatta, and Ampara Sánchez Navarro
Chapter 27. Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Renal Failure . . . .495
Francisco Ortega and Pablo Rebollo
Chapter 28. Ethical Dilemmas in Geriatric Uremia Therapy . . . . . . . . . .511
Eli A. Friedman and Amy L. Friedman
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .531


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