Clinical Nephrogeriatrics, 1st ed. 2019 An Evidence-Based Guide

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Clinical Nephrogeriatrics

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The increase in average life expectancy observed over recent decades has brought new challenges to nephrology practice. Several renal diseases are more frequent in elderly patients today, and even in healthy older individuals renal physiology has its own peculiarities. This leads to the need for a specific approach on renal aging and renal function in the elderly. However, despite the relevance of this topic, there are few books exclusively dedicated to geriatric nephrology.

This book fills this gap by presenting a comprehensive overview of the differences between normal renal aging and chronic renal disease in the aged, and describes the particular aspects of nephropathy in the elderly, addressing it in a practical and clinically applicable fashion.

Clinical Nephrogeriatrics bridges the gap between nephrology and geriatrics, discussing the most important issues concerning the relationshipbetween these two medical specialties. This evidence-based resource, written by prominent specialists with extensive clinical experience, offers nephrologists, geriatricians, family physicians, and other medical professionals valuable practical guidelines and insights to enhance their clinical practice and provide optimal care.

Chapter 1. Structural and functional renal changes secondary to aging.- Chapter 2. Renal aging and chronic kidney disease in the elderly: which are the differences?.- Chapter 3. Frailty in Chronic Kidney Disease Elderly Patients.- Chapter 4. Water, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders in the elderly.- Chapter 5. Hypertension in the Elderly.- Chapter 6. Urinary Tract Infections in the elderly.- Chapter 7. Glomerulopathies in the Elderly.- Chapter 8. Acute kidney Injury in the elderly.- Chapter 9. Nephroprevention in the elderly.- Chapter 10. Hemodialysis in the Elderly.- Chapter 11. Frailty among elderly patients on chronic maintenance hemodialysis for ESRD: Not simply a matter of chronological age.- Chapter 12. Peritoneal Dialysis in the Elderly Patient.- Chapter 13. Kidney Transplant in Elderly.- Chapter 14. Nephrolithiasis in the Elderly.- Chapter 15. Nutrition in the elderly with renal disease.- Chapter 16. Pharmacogeriatrics and the kidney.- Chapter 17. Conservative and palliative care in elderly patients with end-stage renal disease.

Carlos G. Musso – is a primary physician in Nephrology, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine. Gold Medal in Medicine - University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Nephrology fellow at the University Hospital of Salamanca (Spain, 1992), Nephrology fellow at Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto General Hospital (Canada, 2002), PhD in Medicine at the University of Salamanca (Spain, 2011). He is also an associate professor of Nephrology at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, full professor of Human Physiology at the Instituto Universitario, School of Medicine of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and professor of Medical Humanistics at the Instituto Universitario, School of Medicine of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, researcher at the Biology of Aging Research Unit, Hospital Italiano in San Justo (Argentina) and the IAGG Research Network, and associate editor of the Electron Journal Biomed. He is also head of the Renal Clinical Physiology Unit and head of Peritoneal Dialysis Unit at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Prof. Musso is an editorial board member of several international journals, has published more than 400 original and review papers, 2 books and 40 chapters.

Jose R. Jauregui – is a primary physician in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine. He is also a professor of Geriatrics and Family Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine (Argentina) and chief of the Biology of Aging Research Unit, Hospital Italiano in San Justo (Argentina). He received his PhD degree from the Salamanca University (Spain) in 2012 and became an overseas member of the British Geriatric Society in 2011. He is also a member of the Spanish Society of Geriatric Medicine (SEMEG) and of the board of the International Institute on Aging (INIA), Malta-United Nations. Prof. Jauregui is a board member of COMLAT (Latin American Committee of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatric Me

Offers a comprehensive practical guide to nephrogeriatrics Written by worldwide experts in the field, from Europe and the Americas Includes discussions on the most important topics in geriatric nephrology