Maxwell & Kleeman's clinical disorders of fluid and electrolyte metabolism

Rev. ed of: Clinical disorders of fluid and electrolyte metabolism. 4th ed. c1987

Includes bibliographical references and index

Physiologic basis for water and electrolyte metabolism -- Dynamics of body water and electrolyte distribution and transport -- Compartmentation of body water -- Principles of epithelial transport -- Normal water and electrolyte metabolism -- Sodium metabolism -- Osmotic and nonosmotic regulation of thirst and vasopressin secretion -- Physiology of the renal concentrating and diluting mechanisms -- Regulation of extrarenal potassium metabolism -- Regulation of renal potassium metabolism -- Control of ventilation: central chemical drive -- Acid production -- Renal regulation of acid-base metabolism -- Calcium metabolism -- Physiology of phosphorus metabolism -- Magnesium metabolism

(cont) Physiologic effects of the endocrine system and gastrointestinal tract on fluid and electrolyte metabolism -- Adrenal steroid hormones -- Renal prostaglandins and kinins -- Renin-angiotensin system -- Transport of water and electrolytes in the gastrointestinal tract: physiological mechanisms, regulation, and methods of study -- Clinical syndromes of disordered fluid and electrolyte metabolism -- Specific disorders of fluid and electrolyte metabolism -- Pathophysiology of the edema-forming states -- Treatment of edema states -- Hyponatremia: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapy -- Hyperosmolal states -- Hypokalemic states -- Clinical disorders of hyperkalemia -- Acid-base disorders: definitions and introductory concepts -- Metabolic acidoses

(cont) Diabetic acidosis and coma -- Renal tubular acidosis -- Metabolic aspects of metabolic acidosis and metabolic alkalosis -- Metabolic alkalosis -- Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis -- Mixed acid-base disorders -- Disorders of calcium metabolism -- Hypophosphatemia and hyperphosphatemia: clinical and pathophysiologic aspects -- Hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia -- Medical and surgical conditions associated with fluid and electrolyte disorders -- Fluid and electrolyte metabolism during pregnancy -- Small and large intestinal disorders: associated fluid and electrolyte complications -- Electrolyte, water, mineral, and acid-base disorders in liver disease -- Acute renal failure: fluid and electrolyte and acid-base complications

(cont) Electrolyte disorders in chronic renal failure -- Fluid and electrolyte complications of dialysis -- Renal osteodystrophy -- Kidney transplantation: associated physiologic, fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base abnormalities -- Management of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders in surgical patients -- Fluid and electrolyte disorders in total parenteral nutrition -- Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities in critically ill patients: fluid resuscitation, lactate metabolism and calcium metabolism -- Metabolic encephalopathy associated with water, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders -- Disorders of heat regulation -- Electrolytes in the pathogenesis of hypertension: Part I: altered sodium and potassium balance -- Part II: cation transport -- Hypertensive states: associated fluid and electrolyte disturbances