Brenner & Rector's The Kidney (2 volume set), 12th Edition

VOLUME 1
SECTION: NORMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
1. Embryology of the Kidney
2. Anatomy of the Kidney
3. Renal Circulation and Glomerular Filtration
4. Glomerular Cell Biology and Podocytopathies
5. Kidney Metabolism
6. Transport of Sodium, Chloride, and Potassium
7. Transport of Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate
8. Renal Handling of Organic Solutes
9. Renal Acidification Mechanisms
10. Urine Concentration and Dilution
11. Vasoactive Molecules and the Kidney
12. Aldosterone and Mineralocorticoid Receptors: Renal and Extrarenal Roles

SECTION II DISORDERS OF BODY FLUID VOLUME AND COMPOSITION
13. Disorders of Sodium Balance
14. Disorders of Water Balance
15. Disorders of Acid-Base Balance
16. Disorders of Potassium Balance
17. Disorders of Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate Balance

SECTION III EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS IN KIDNEY DISEASE
18. Epidemiology of Kidney Disease
19. Risk Prediction in Chronic Kidney Disease
20. Early Life Origins of Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease
21. The Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Kidneys in Aging
22. Sex and Gender in Kidney Health and Disease

SECTION IV EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT WITH KIDNEY DISEASE
23. Laboratory Assessment of Kidney Disease: Glomerular Filtration Rate, Proteinuria, and Urinalysis
24. Diagnostic Kidney Imaging
25. The Renal Biopsy
26. Point-of-Care Ultrasound

SECTION V DISORDERS OF KIDNEY STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
27. Pathophysiology of Acute Kidney Injury
28. Prevention and Management of Acute Kidney Injury
29. Pathophysiology of Proteinuria
30. Nephrotic Syndrome: Primary and Secondary
31. Lupus Nephritis and Other Kidney Manifestations of Systemic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
32. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–Associated Vasculitis and Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease
33. IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis
34. Infection-Related Glomerulonephritis
35. Kidney Lesions Associated With Dysproteinemias
36. Complement-Mediated Kidney Diseases
37. Tubulointerstitial Diseases
38. Urinary Tract Infection in Adults
39. Urinary Tract Obstruction
40. Nephrolithiasis
41. Diabetic Kidney Disease
42. Cardiovascular Disease in Persons With Chronic Kidney Disease
43. Kidney Cancer

VOLUME 2
SECTION VI GENETICS OF KIDNEY DISEASE
44. Genetics of Kidney Disease
45. Cystic Kidney Diseases

SECTION VII HYPERTENSION AND THE KIDNEY
46 Primary and Secondary Hypertension
47. Renovascular Hypertension and Ischemic Nephropathy
48. Antihypertensive Therapy
49. Diuretics

SECTION VIII CONSEQUENCES OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
50. Mechanisms of Progression in Chronic Kidney Disease
51. The Pathophysiology of Uremia
52. Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral Bone Disorder
53. Hematologic Aspects of Kidney Disease

SECTION IX MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
54. Classification and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease
55. Dietary Approaches to Kidney Diseases
56. Drug Dosing Considerations in Patients With Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease
57. Onconephrology: Kidney Disease and Cancer
58. Pregnancy and Kidney Disease
59. Infectious Diseases and the Kidney
60. Care of the Older Adult With Chronic Kidney Disease
61. Kidney Supportive Care in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease

SECTION X DIALYSIS AND EXTRACORPOREAL THERAPIES
62. Hemodialysis
63. Peritoneal Dialysis
64. Critical Care Nephrology
65. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Other Extracorporeal Treatments in Management of Kidney and Related Diseases
66. Enhanced Elimination of Poisons
67. Interventional Nephrology: Managing Dialysis Access and Kidney Biopsy

SECTION XI KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
68. The Immunobiology of Transplantation
69. Clinical Management of the Adult Kidney Transplant Recipient
70. Considerations in Living Kidney Donation

SECTION XII PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY
71. Childhood Kidney Disease
72. Kidney Replacement Therapy (Dialysis and Transplantation) in Children

SECTION XIII GLOBAL CONSIDERATIONS IN KIDNEY DISEASE
73. Global Challenges and Progress in Kidney Health
74. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Latin America
75. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Africa
76. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Near and Middle East
77. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Indian Subcontinent
78. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: The Far East
79. Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: The Pacific Islands and Islands of the Caribbean

SECTION XIV CHALLENGES IN NEPHROLOGY
80. Ethical Dilemmas Facing Nephrology
81. Health Disparities in Nephrology
82. Disaster Nephrology
83. Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology
84. Stem Cells, Kidney Regeneration, and Gene and Cell Therapy in Nephrology

Valerie Luyckx, MBBCh, MSc, Affiliate Lecturer, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and the History of MedicineUniversity of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Glenn M. Chertow, MD, Norman S. Coplon/ Satellite Healthcare, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA, Philip A. Marsden, MD, Professor of Medicine, Elisabeth Hofmann Chair in Translational Research, Oreopoulos-Baxter Division Director of Nephrology; Vice Chair Research, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Karl Skorecki, MD, FRCP(C), FASN, Annie Chutick Professor and Chair in Medicine (Nephrology), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Director of Medical and Research Development, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Maarten W. Taal, MBChB, MMed, MD, FCP(SA), FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham; Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK and Alan S.L. Yu, MD, Harry Statland and Solon Summerfield Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA