Circulation in native and artificial kidneys

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Circulation in native and artificial kidneys

Claudio Ronco, Antonio Artigas, Rinaldo Bellomo, editors

Karger, 1997

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"Third Annual Symposium on Applied Physiology of the Peripheral Circulation, September 20-21, 1996, Barcelona, Spain"--T.p

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Description

This interesting volume presents research on all aspects of the circulation in native and artificial kidneys. For the first time, such a specific topic is reviewed by experimental physiologists, pharmacologists, intensive care physicians and nephrologists to reach a multidisciplinary approach to definitions, diagnostic measures and therapeutic interventions. In the first part of the book, physiologic and physiopathologic characteristics of renal circulation are analyzed, with particular attention to how they may affect the kidney's response to stress. Next, the role of systemic inflammation and cardiovascular physiologic adjustments is explored. The third part of this book is dedicated to an analysis of therapeutic interventions directed toward the manipulation of the renal vasculature and renal function in the clinical arena. Despite all of these measures, established renal failure requiring artificial and renal support eventually occurs in some patients. The practicalities, characteristics, indications and consequences of continuous renal displacement are discussed in great detail in the last part of this book, as are their implications for patient care. This volume is of the greatest use not only as a reference book for experienced specialists, but it is also invaluable as a textbook for specializing fellows or residents.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Native renal circulation - physical and biological regulation: Physiological regulation of renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate by the endothelium and smooth muscle, P.B. Persson
  • Role of mesangium in microcirculatory control, P.L. Kimmel
  • The renal medulla - life at the edge of anoxia, S.N. Heyman et al
  • Adenosine and tubuloglomerular feedback, H. Osswald et al
  • Regulation of eicosanoid formation - implications for the renal microcirculation, A.R. Morrison, Z. Guan. Part 2 Pathophysiology of acute renal failure and intervention: Renal vascular effects of cytokines, F. Mariano et al
  • Role of endothelin in acute renal failure, E.P. Nord
  • Endotoxin and renal blood flow, J.A. Kellum
  • Atrial natriuretic factors - the treatment of the future or a false hope? D.M. Pollock
  • Clearance of inflammatory mediators through continuous renal replacement therapy, J. Montoliu. Part 3 Practical issues in the manipulation of the renal circulation: Manipulation of the renal circulation in septic shock: Alpha- and Beta-adrenergic agonists - continuing doubts and new ideas, L. Cole, R. Bellomo
  • Diuretics in acute renal failure - protective or deleterious, J.A. Kellum
  • Urodilatin and the control of renal microcirculation, K. Endlich, M. Steinhaussen. Part 4 Physiology of the artificial kidney - physical and biologic regulation: Central circulation, peripheral circulation and recirculation - why and how the artificial kidney and the body interact, C. Romeo, R. Bellomo
  • Acute renal failure, critical illness and the artificial kidney - can we predict outcome? F. Liano, J. Pascual
  • Circulation of the continuous artificial kidney - blood flow, pressures, clearances and the search for the best, R. Bellomo, C. Ronco
  • Clinical consequences of blood flow-dialyser membrane - interactions in acute renal failure, H. Schiff et al
  • The failing heart, the post-bypass heart and the hemofiltering artificial kidney, E. Playe et al.

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