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Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISBN-100898383854
ISBN-139780898383850
eBay Product ID (ePID)970880
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameKidney in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1988
SubjectPathology, Nephrology
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMedical
AuthorG. D'amico
SeriesDevelopments in Nephrology Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-008913
Dewey Edition19
Reviews'The book can be recommended to all practising nephrologists.' Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 5, 1990 'This is a well-produced and edited multi-author volume. The illustrations are good and well produced, particularly some of the electron-micrographs. The book can be recommended to all practising nephrologists.' Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 5/8, 1990
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number22
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.61
Table Of ContentI. The Plasma Cell Dyscrasias.- 1. A perspective of plasma cell dyscrasias: clinical implications of monoclonal light chains in renal disease.- 2. Genotypic and phenotypic diversity of plasma cell myeloma.- 3. Immunoglobulin synthesis in plasma cell dyscrasias with renal lesions.- 4. Renal amyloidosis: new perspectives.- 5. Amyloidogenesis and light chains.- 6. Physiopathological aspects of plasma cell dyscrasias.- II. Light Chain Nephrotoxicity.- 1. Glomerular and associated tubular injury by light chains. The spectrum of damage and effect of treatment.- 2. Effect of light chains on proximal tubule function.- 3. Pathophysiological aspects of myeloma cast nephropathy.- 4. Light chain nephrotoxicity: insights from a rat model of myeloma.- 5. Light chain-related tubulointerstitial nephropathy.- 6. The pathogenesis of cast nephropathy.- 7. Light chain nephrotoxicity.- III. The Kidney Involvement in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias.- 1. Kidney in multiple myeloma and related disorders.- 2. Histological, histochemical and ultrastructural features of myeloma kidney.- 3. Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease: immunopathologic aspects of renal involvement.- 4. The glomerulonephritis of essential mixed cryoglobulinemia.- 5. Clinical spectrum of tubular disorders from light chains.- 6. Renal amyloidosis -- Retrospective collaborative study.- 7. Kidney involvement in light chain deposition disease.- 8. Some aspects of kidney involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias.- IV. The Therapeutic Approach.- 1. Controlled trial of plasma exchange in rapidly progressive renal failure.- 2. Prevention and treatment of hyperviscosity syndrome.- 3. Implications of renal failure in mUltiple myeloma.- 4. Uraemia in myeloma: management and prognosis.- 5. Therapeutic prospects in amyloidosis.- 6. Sundrieson therapy of multiple myeloma and amyloidosis and their renal consequences.- V..- Conclusions.- Index of subjects.
LC Classification NumberRC902-918
