The Kidney in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias [electronic resource] /
I. The Plasma Cell Dyscrasias -- 1. A perspective of plasma cell dyscrasias: clinical implications of monoclonal light chains in renal disease -- 2. Genotypic and phenotypic diversity of plasma cell myeloma -- 3. Immunoglobulin synthesis in plasma cell dyscrasias with renal lesions -- 4. Renal amyloidosis: new perspectives -- 5. Amyloidogenesis and light chains -- 6. Physiopathological aspects of plasma cell dyscrasias -- II. Light Chain Nephrotoxicity -- 1. Glomerular and associated tubular injury by light chains. The spectrum of damage and effect of treatment -- 2. Effect of light chains on proximal tubule function -- 3. Pathophysiological aspects of myeloma cast nephropathy -- 4. Light chain nephrotoxicity: insights from a rat model of myeloma -- 5. Light chain-related tubulointerstitial nephropathy -- 6. The pathogenesis of cast nephropathy -- 7. Light chain nephrotoxicity -- III. The Kidney Involvement in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias -- 1. Kidney in multiple myeloma and related disorders -- 2. Histological, histochemical and ultrastructural features of myeloma kidney -- 3. Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease: immunopathologic aspects of renal involvement -- 4. The glomerulonephritis of essential mixed cryoglobulinemia -- 5. Clinical spectrum of tubular disorders from light chains -- 6. Renal amyloidosis — Retrospective collaborative study -- 7. Kidney involvement in light chain deposition disease -- 8. Some aspects of kidney involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias -- IV. The Therapeutic Approach -- 1. Controlled trial of plasma exchange in rapidly progressive renal failure -- 2. Prevention and treatment of hyperviscosity syndrome -- 3. Implications of renal failure in mUltiple myeloma -- 4. Uraemia in myeloma: management and prognosis -- 5. Therapeutic prospects in amyloidosis -- 6. Sundries on therapy of multiple myeloma and amyloidosis and their renal consequences -- V. -- Conclusions -- Index of subjects.
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Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands,
1988
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Subjects: | Medicine., Nephrology., Medicine & Public Health., |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1315-8 |
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