Published December, 2010
By Onyekachi Ifudu
Publisher: Springer
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Is the nephrology community facilitating excess cardiovascular deaths in patients with kidney failure and anemia by treating to a subnormal hematocrit? Are we using too much intravenous iron in kidney failure patients, and is oral iron supplementation worthless in sustaining iron stores during long-term erythropoietin treatment?

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Published December, 2010
By Mary G. McGeown
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Nephrology
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Clinical Management of Renal Transplantation presents The Belfast City and University Hospital experience in renal transplantation. Over the years, the Belfast Renal Transplant Unit has acquired considerable experience in all aspects of renal transplantation which have led to excellent results.

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Published December, 2010
By Attilio Maria Farinon
Publisher: Springer
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Advances in Abdominal Surgery 2002 contains papers from a group of Italian academic surgeons who contribute to a national research program entitled `Progress in Abdominal Surgery'.

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Published November, 2010
By Elias Greenbaum, Mark S. Humayun, James D. Weiland, Gerald J. Chader and Gerald Chader
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book describes advances in implantable neural stimulation technology to restore partial sight to people who are blind from retinal degnerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retintis pigmentosa.

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Published November, 2010
By Alexander A. Bankier and A.L. Baert
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Medical Radiology
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With contributions by numerous experts

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Published November, 2010
By Bruno K. Podesser, David J. Chambers and Gabor Szabo
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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Although cardiac surgery has made an enormous progress during the last decades, the discipline has to cope with essential changes: Patients are increasingly cared for by cardiologists and therefore referred to the surgeon in a later stage of disease.

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Published November, 2010
By Daniel A. Shoskes, T.R. Srinivas and T. R. Srinivas
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Current Clinical Urology
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The transplant physicians and surgeons at Cleveland Clinic have collaborated to produce, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: A Practical Guide. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: A Practical Guide will be of great value to transplant physicians as well as medical and surgical fellows who intend to pursue an interest in transplantation.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard T. Maziarz, Susan Slater and Susan Schubach Slater
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Developed by the Blood and Marrow Transplant team at Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, this pocket guide provides management guidelines for hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients from the moment of their initial consultation throughout the transplant process.

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Published November, 2010
By Jeffrey L. Platt and Jeffrey Platt
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Internationally recognized scientists, clinicians, and technologists review and explain the fundamental molecular and cellular biology that has been applied to the emerging field of transplant immunology and xenotransplantation, and what impact these advances might optimally have on medicine and science.

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Published November, 2010
By Pere Gines, Patrick S. Kamath and Vicente Arroyo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
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Chronic liver failure is a frequent condition in clinical practice that encompasses all manifestations of patients with end-stage liver diseases. Chronic liver failure is a multiorgan syndrome that affects the liver, kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, adrenal glands, and vascular, coagulation, and immune systems.

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