Gastrointestinal Cancer: Screening and Surveillance
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Screening and Surveillance Robert S. Sandler Screening can be defined as the application of a test to detect a potential disease or condition in a person who has…
NEPHROLOGY
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Cancer Genetics
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Cancer Genetics Steven M. Lipkin Kenneth Offit Introduction Clinical genetic services for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer help the medical community effectively identify families with genetic syndromes. When properly diagnosed,…
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Pathology and Molecular Pathology
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Pathology and Molecular Pathology Alessandro Lugli Jeremy R. Jass Introduction “Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another” wrote the…
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Epidemiology
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Epidemiology Ellen Kampman H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita Heiner Boeing Carlos A. Gonzalez Bianca Stam Pieter van’t Veer Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon Sheila A. Bingham Hans F. A. Vasen Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers…
A Practical Approach to Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care
2 General Practitioner, Birmingham, UK Introduction In the past, kidney medicine was regarded as rare, complicated and best left to the specialists. Now it is an everyday part of primary…
Management of Patients with or at Risk of Kidney Disease on the Surgical Ward
End-stage kidney diseaseDialysis-dependent > 3 months Adverse consequences of kidney injury on hospital survival In an Australian study of hospitalised patients identified by the RIFLE classification (Table 7.1), Uchino et…
Medication Management and Chronic Kidney Disease
where F = 1.23 (males), 1.04 (females). Ideal body weight should be used for obese patients, as actual bodyweight would overestimate creatinine clearance, leading to an overdose. Actual bodyweight should…
Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease
2 Queen’s University Belfast, UK3 Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK Introduction It is estimated that 9% of the English adult population have chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages…
Optimising Nutrition in People with Chronic Kidney Disease
2Renal Dietitian, Logan Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Introduction This chapter aims to describe the main aspects of diet in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and to provide non-specialists with practical information on…
Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalised Patients
2 Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK3 Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Introduction Irrespective of the specialty, all hospitalised patients are at risk of…
