Nephrology, Third Edition

Author: Qian Tongsun
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: Nephrology is a branch of internal medicine. The kidneys serve as both excretory and endocrine organs, playing a crucial role in maintaining the stability of the body's internal environment. The field of nephrology is very broad, encompassing not only dozens of diseases originating in the glomerulus, tubules, and interstitium of the kidneys but also secondary kidney lesions caused by various systemic diseases such as connective tissue diseases, metabolic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. In some cases, systemic diseases affecting the kidneys may even manifest primarily as kidney disease. Most kidney diseases, if left uncontrolled, ultimately lead to kidney failure. This book revises and rewrites each chapter of the second edition of the original work, emphasizing the diagnosis and treatment of each disease. It extensively introduces new technologies and therapies, fully reflecting the theoretical, technical, and diagnostic standards of the international nephrology community today. Additionally, several newly discovered kidney diseases have been added. The book maintains a close connection between theory and practice, keeps the word count around 1 million, and lists references from the most recent five years for each chapter.