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Nutritional Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure
S. . Ed(S): Giovannetti
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hardcover. Editor(s): Giovannetti, S. Series: Topics in Renal Medicine. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
Enormous progress has been made in the treatment of chronic renal failure over the last decades. Until the 1950s, chronic renal failure was considered to be an inexorably lethal condition. This is no longer the case. In addition, the disease, severe uremic syndrome, is now extremely rare, if existent at all, in industrialized countries. Physicians of my generation who saw patients hospitalized with hemor raghes, pericarditis, severe anemia, cardiac failure, "malignant hypertension," pruritus, vomiting, generalized edema, and convulsions are particularly grate ful for this progress. I well remember seeing such patients hospitalized in the last days or weeks of their ... Read more
Enormous progress has been made in the treatment of chronic renal failure over the last decades. Until the 1950s, chronic renal failure was considered to be an inexorably lethal condition. This is no longer the case. In addition, the disease, severe uremic syndrome, is now extremely rare, if existent at all, in industrialized countries. Physicians of my generation who saw patients hospitalized with hemor raghes, pericarditis, severe anemia, cardiac failure, "malignant hypertension," pruritus, vomiting, generalized edema, and convulsions are particularly grate ful for this progress. I well remember seeing such patients hospitalized in the last days or weeks of their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Topics in Renal Medicine
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792300861
SKU
V9780792300861
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