Cancer and the kidney

• Other Authors: Cohen, Eric P. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2005
• Subjects: Kidney Diseases > Case Reports > complications; Neoplasms > Case Reports > complications
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Kidney disease, metabolic disturbances or kidney failure can occur in a cancer patient, and cancers may complicate the lives of dialysis or transplant patients. These cross-specialty clinical problems and their management are the focus of this book, which provides nephrologists and oncologists with...

Table of Contents:

• The assessment of kidney function / Eric P. Cohen
• Paraneoplastic glomerulopathies / Christopher Valentine ... [et al.]
• Fluid and electrolyte disorders associated with cancer / Satish Kumar, Christine C. Pitcock, and Eric P. Cohen
• Acute renal failure in cancer patients / Facundo Lugones and Martine Leblanc
• Paraproteins and the kidney / Robin G. Woolfson
• Nephrotoxicity of chemotherapy agents and chemotherapy administration in patients with renal disease / Carlos D. Flombaum
• Radiation nephropathy / Eric P. Cohen and John E. Moulder
• Urinary tract obstruction in cancer patients / Marie Philipneri and Bahar Bastani
• Kidney cancer / Roger B. Cohen
• Cancer in dialysis patients / Isao Ishikawa
• Cancer after renal transplantation / Joseph F. Buell ... [et al.].