Nutritional Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure

Book Overview

Enormous progress has been made in the treatment of chronic renal failure over the last decades. Until the 1950s, chronic renal failure was considered to be an inexorably lethal condition. This is no longer the case. In addition, the disease, severe uremic syndrome, is now extremely rare, if existent at all, in industrialized countries. Physicians of my generation who saw patients hospitalized with hemor- raghes, pericarditis, severe anemia, cardiac...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792300866
• ISBN13: 9780792300861
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"