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BASIC NEPHROLOGY AND

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY

Edited by Manisha Sahay

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Basic Nephrology and Acute Kidney Injury

Edited by Manisha Sahay

Published by InTech

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Copyright © 2012 InTech

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First published February, 2012

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Basic Nephrology and Acute Kidney Injury, Edited by Manisha Sahay

p. cm.

ISBN 978-953-51-0139-0

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Contents

Preface IX

Part 1

Basics of Nephrology

1

Chapter 1

Is Body Surface Area the Appropriate

Index for Glomerular Filtration Rate?

3

Liesbeth Hoste and Hans Pottel

Chapter 2

How Measuring Glomerular Filtration Rate?

Comparison of Reference Methods

21

Pierre Delanaye

Chapter 3

Effects of Preterm Birth on the Kidney 61

Mary Jane Black, Megan R. Sutherland and Lina Gubhaju

Chapter 4

Renal Potassium Handling and Associated Inherited

Tubulopathies Leading to Hypokalemia

89

Jelena Stojanovic and John Sayer

Chapter 5

Variability of Biological Parameters in Blood Samples

Between Two Consecutive Schedules of Hemodialysis 105

Aurelian Udristioiu, Manole Cojocaru, Dana Panait and Radu Iliescu

Part 2

Acute Kidney Injury

123

Chapter 6

The Metamorphosis of Acute Renal

Failure to Acute Kidney Injury 125

John W. Pickering and Zoltán H. Endre

Chapter 7

Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy

151

Manisha Sahay

Chapter 8

Evaluation of Acute Kidney

Injury in Intensive Care Unit

173

Itir Yegenaga

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