Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney,
Edition 2
By Michael R. Clarkson, MB, Barry M. Brenner, MD, AM(Hon), DSc(Hon), DMSc(Hon), FRCP(Lond, Hon) and Ciara Magee

Publication Date: 22 Feb 2010
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Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney distills the essential clinical information from the latest edition of the seminal text on kidney diseases and their management. Michael R. Clarkson, Ciara Magee, and Barry M. Brenner detail the key pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues in clinical nephrology, including interventional nephrology, endocrine aspects of kidney disease, and plasmapheresis.

Key Features

  • Diagnose, treat, and manage both common and uncommon disorders.

  • Find clinical knowledge quickly and easily thanks to convenient tables throughout the text.

  • Choose the best option of the many techniques available through discussions of indications for laboratory tests and imaging studies.

    • New Features

    Enhance your clinical acumen with coverage of new topics such as risk factors and kidney disease, nephron endowment, interventional nephrology, plasmapheresis, xenotransplantation, stem cells in renal biology and medicine, and more.

    Stay current thanks to two new sections—Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Kidney Disease and Frontiers in Kidney Disease—that include topics such as stem cell and genomics.

    About the author
    By Michael R. Clarkson, MB, Fellow in Nephrology, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Barry M. Brenner, MD, AM(Hon), DSc(Hon), DMSc(Hon), FRCP(Lond, Hon), Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Renal Division; and Senior Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA and Ciara Magee
    Book Reviews

    "Like the other five companions to the parent textbook, this is a source of immediate, concise, current, and clinically relevant information written at an accessible level…the well-known authors address a broad audience of practitioners who treat patients with kidney diseases: medical students, residents, fellows, internists, urologists, and primary care physicians…"- Doody’s Book Review- Weighted Numerical Score: 95 - 4 Stars!

    Book details
    ISBN: 9781416066408
    Page Count: 928
    Retail Price : £45.99
    978-1-4160-6193-9, Taal, Chertow, Marsden, Skorecki, Yu & Brenner: Brenner and Rector's The Kidney, Expert Consult - Online and Print 2-Volume Set, 9e, Nov-2011
    Audience

    Nephrology