Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Renal, Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders,
Edition 4Editors: Edited by John Lorenz, MD, Michel G. Baum, MD and Kathleen G. Brennan, MD
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Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Nephrology**Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.
Key Features
The thoroughly updated, full-color, 4th Edition of Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Disorders:
- Provides a clear management strategy for common and rare neonatal renal, fluid, and electrolyte disorders, offering guidance based on the most up-to-date understanding of underlying pathophysiology
- Places emphasis on controversial areas that can entail different approaches
- Features the most current clinical information throughout, with many chapters written by new authors who offer a fresh perspective on key topics
- Includes numerous new chapters, including assessment of neonatal kidney function, pulmonary hypoplasia in the fetus with oligohydramnios, genetic causes of congenital renal malformations, effect of preterm birth on renal outcomes, dialysis and kidney transplantation, renal tubular acidosis, and more
- Highlights gaps in knowledge that should serve as a strong stimulus for future research
- Utilizes a consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily, and contains numerous charts, graphs, radiographic images, and photographs throughout
- Offers the most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
- Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
- Neonatal Hemodynamics
- Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology
- Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Disorders
- Neurology
- The Newborn Lung
About the author
Edited by John Lorenz, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical College, New York, New York, USA; Michel G. Baum, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Charles E. and Sara M. Seay Chair in Pediatric Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA and Kathleen G. Brennan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology Associate Program Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship, NY, USA
1. Assessment of Renal Function in Fetuses With Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction
2. Assessment of Neonatal Kidney Function
3. Diagnosis and Management of Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury
4. Pulmonary Hypoplasia in the Fetus With Oligohydramnios: Causes, Treatment,and Prevention
5. Pathophysiology and Management of Hyperkalemia in the Neonate
6. Physiological Management of Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy in Newborns
7. Pathophysiology and Management of Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia in the Neonate
8. Genetic Causes of Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract
9. Evidence-Based Approach to Diuretic Therapy in the Neonate
10. Effect of Preterm Birth on Renal Outcomes
11. Diagnosis and Management of Prenatal Urinary Tract Dilatation
12. Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation in Infancy
13. Renal Tubular Acidosis
14. Renal Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Use in the Neonate
15. Urosepsis and Uroprophylaxis
16. Neonatal Hypertension
Book Reviews
Neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, pediatricians
