Renal pathophysiology : the essentials / Helmut G. Rennke, M.D., professor of pathology, Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Bradley M. Denker, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chief of nephrology, Harvard-Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, Massachusetts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Review of renal physiology -- Regulation of salt and water balance -- Disorders of water balance: hyponatremia, hypernatremia, and polyuria -- Edematous states and the use of diuretics -- Acid-base physiology and metabolic alkalosis -- Metabolic acidosis -- Disorders of potassium balance -- Urinalysis and approach to the patient with renal disease -- Pathogenesis of major glomerular and vascular diseases -- Tubulointerstitial diseases -- Acute renal failure -- Progression of chronic renal failure -- Signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure.