Clinical Cases in Kidney Disease

David Harris is Associate Dean of the Western Clinical School of the University of Sydney, at Westmead Hospital. He is a nephrologist and prior to his appointment as Associate Dean he was Director of Nephrology and Dialysis in Western Sydney. He is also a Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee and Director of Kidney Health Australia, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network, a member of the Executive of the Asian Pacific Society and International Societies of Nephrology, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nephrology.

• SECTION A- Fluids and Electrolytes1.HyponatraemiaZol Endre2.Acid Base DisturbanceDavid Harris3.Hypokalaemia and Metabolic AlkalosisDavid JohnsonSECTION B General Nephrology4.Renal MassGopi Rangan5.HaematuriaGopi Rangan6.Urinary Tract Infection Annemarie Hennessy7.Resistant Hypertension Paulo Ferrrari8.Hypertension in PregnancyGeorge Mangos & Mark Brown9.ProteinuriaCarol Pollock10.Oedema and Nephrotic SyndromeVincent Lee11.Progressive Chronic Renal DiseaseRob MacGinley12.Cardiovascular MortalityGrahame Elder13.Bone and Mineral MetabolismGrahame Elder14.Renal Vascular DiseaseJohn Kelly15.Renal Disease in Systemic Lupus ErythematosisRandall Faull16.Rapidly Progressive GlomerulonephritisLena Succar & Gopi Rangan17.Acute Renal Failure and RhabdomyolysisVincent Lee18.Acute Renal Failure and Drug-Induced NephrotoxicityRob WalkerSECTION C Haemodialysis19.Dialysis HypotensionCarmel Hawley20.Haemodialysis Adequacy Peter Kerr21.Access InsufficiencyKevan Polkinghorne22.Access InfectionKevan PolkinghorneSECTION D – Peritoneal Dialysis23.Peritoneal Dialysis AdequacyFiona Brown24.Cloudy BagKamal Sud25.Ultrafiltration Failure Kamal SudSECTION E – Transplantation26.Live Kidney DonationNikky Isbel27.Acute Transplant DysfunctionNick Cross28.HLA Sensitisation and anti-HLA AntibodiesShlomo Cohney29.Infection in the Immunocompromised HostOmar Kaisar & Randall Faull30.Post Transplant MalignancyKM Murali & Angela Webster31.Other Complications of ImmunosuppressionJohn Kanellis32.Chronic Allograft DysfunctionSteve Chadban