The kidney in plasma cell dyscrasias

Herausgegeben:Minetti, Luigi; D'Amico, G.; Ponticelli, G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

`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

Produktdetails

• Developments in Nephrology 22
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-010-7085-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9789401070850
• ISBN-10: 9401070857
• Artikelnr.: 39502918

Inhaltsangabe

I. 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.

Rezensionen

`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

`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