International Yearbook of Nephrology 1992

Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 1. Coagulation in renal diseases: the role of the glomerular hemostasis system and implications for therapy.- 2. Central nervous system complications of severe hyponatremia.- 3. The physiologic basis for renal functional reserve testing.- Glomerulonephritis.- 4. The antiproteinuric effect of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors in human renal disease.- Hypertension.- 5. Insulin resistance in essential hypertension.- The Kidney and Diabetes.- 6. Risk factors and optimal blood pressure level for insulin-dependent diabetic patients.- The Kidney in Pregnancy.- 7. Treatment of hypertension during pregnancy: drugs to be avoided and drugs to be used..- Hereditary Renal Diseases.- 8. Prediction of likelihood of polycystic kidney disease in the fetus when a parent has autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease..- Renal Stone Disease.- 9. Urinary stones which require adjunctive management for successful extracorporeal Shockwave lithotripsy.- Chronic Renal Failure.- 10. Metabolic and clinical effects of long-term conservative treatment in patients with chronic renal failure.- Dialysis.- 11. Treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism by intravenous calcitriol.- 12. Non-A non-B hepatitis in dialysis patients: diagnosis prevention treatment.- 13. New developments in continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration/dialysis.- Renal Transplantation.- 14. Ideal immunosuppression after renal transplantation: are steroids needed.- Diagnostic Methods in Nephrology.- 15. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA): new tools in the diagnosis and follow-up of necrotizing glomerulonephritis and vasculitis.- 16. Microscopic examination of the urinary sediment to differentiate high from low renal bleeding.