Optimal Treatment Strategies in End-stage Renal Failure
Seiten
2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262971-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262971-5 (ISBN)
This book provides an overview of the major therapeutic advances and current practice in the treatment of End-stage renal failure by the recognised leaders in the field.
During the past 4O years there have been major conceptual and technical advances in the domain of dialysis methods and renal/organ transplantation for long-term treatment of patients with End-Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). This now enables better defined, more selective strategies of treatment to be undertaken, according to patient-specific criteria such as age or underlying renal disease also taking into account the lifetime duration of these treatments. For many patients this implies necessary successive changes of mode of therapy depending on their availability, occurrence of medical/technical complications or failure and social-environmental and economic factors.
This rationale has inspired the structure of this volume which is divided into four sections:
1/ A descriptive overview of the various modes of renal replacement therapy (RRT): Extracorporeal dialysis/filtration, peritoneal dialysis, kidney and multi-organ transplantation.2/ Most appropriate indications and use of these methods, respective advantages, drawbacks and outcome in children, pregnant women and elderly patients 3/ In diabetic patients and in patients with hereditary/congenital diseases. 4/ The ethical issues generated by this new domain in Medicine by limitations in treatment facilities or medical dilemmas for acceptance, best technical choices, withdrawal or termination of RRT in individual patients.
Finally, contributors form Eastern European Countries, Africa and Far Eastern Countries analyse the current status of RRT in their respective geographical area and the ways and means required for a wider implementation of RRT in thus far lesser economically developed countries where the great majority of the populations still have no access to these life-saving therapeutic procedures.
During the past 4O years there have been major conceptual and technical advances in the domain of dialysis methods and renal/organ transplantation for long-term treatment of patients with End-Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). This now enables better defined, more selective strategies of treatment to be undertaken, according to patient-specific criteria such as age or underlying renal disease also taking into account the lifetime duration of these treatments. For many patients this implies necessary successive changes of mode of therapy depending on their availability, occurrence of medical/technical complications or failure and social-environmental and economic factors.
This rationale has inspired the structure of this volume which is divided into four sections:
1/ A descriptive overview of the various modes of renal replacement therapy (RRT): Extracorporeal dialysis/filtration, peritoneal dialysis, kidney and multi-organ transplantation.2/ Most appropriate indications and use of these methods, respective advantages, drawbacks and outcome in children, pregnant women and elderly patients 3/ In diabetic patients and in patients with hereditary/congenital diseases. 4/ The ethical issues generated by this new domain in Medicine by limitations in treatment facilities or medical dilemmas for acceptance, best technical choices, withdrawal or termination of RRT in individual patients.
Finally, contributors form Eastern European Countries, Africa and Far Eastern Countries analyse the current status of RRT in their respective geographical area and the ways and means required for a wider implementation of RRT in thus far lesser economically developed countries where the great majority of the populations still have no access to these life-saving therapeutic procedures.
Preface ; 1. Extra-corporeal renal replacement therapies ; 2. Peritoneal dialysis methods ; 3. Kidney transplantation ; 4. Multi-organ transplantation ; 5. Optimal care of pediatric patients with end-stage renal failure ; 6. Pregnancy in women on renal replacement therapy ; 7. Optimal renal replacement therapy in elderly patients ; 8. Renal replacement therapy in diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease ; 9. Treatment of patients with hereditary and congenital disorders ; 10. Ethical conflicts in renal replacement therapies ; 11. Treatment strategies for end-stage renal failure in developing countries
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.6.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | numerous tables and figures |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 690 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Nephrologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-262971-9 / 0192629719 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-262971-5 / 9780192629715 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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