Kidney Failure The Facts

Name: Kidney Failure The Facts
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ISBN: 9780192626431

ISBN-10: 0192626434

ISBN-13: 9780192626431

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: J. Stewart Cameron

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Almost one million people around the world suffer from kidney disease and owe their lives to dialysis or transplantation. Each year in the UK, nearly 10,000 people enter end-stage kidney failure. However over the past 20 years the prospects for treatment and survival have dramatically improved thanks to medical advances. This book has been specially written for these patients and their families. After explaining the causes and symptons of kidney failure, the various treatment options are considered, in particular dialysis and transplantations. Throughout, the book aims to help patients understand how this disease and its treatment will affect them, and to answer many commonly asked…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




What do kidneys do?



How will I know if I have kidney failure?



Who gets kidney failure



What causes kidney failure?



What happens in kidney failure?



Treatment of kidney failure - haemodialysis



Treatment of kidney failure - peritoneal dialysis



Treatment of kidney failure - transplantation



Putting the treatments together



The future