Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
How to Define and Classify Acute Kidney Injury (AKI): The “Risk Injury Failure Loss of Kidney Function End-Stage Kidney Disease” (RIFLE) and “Acute Kidney Injury Network” (AKIN) Classifications;pp. 1-18
(José António Lopes, Sofia Jorge, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal)
Acute Renal Failure in the Newborn (NB);pp. 19-35
(Nilzete Liberato Bresolin, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and others)
Kidney Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury;pp. 37-49
(Valquiria Bueno, Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Models in Immunology, UNIFESP Federal University of São Paulo, Immunology Division, São Paulo, Brazil)
Long-Term Prognostic Implication of Post-Angiographic Acute Kidney Injury and Hemodynamic Instability;pp. 51-67
(Tomonori Kimura, Yoshitaka Isaka, Terumasa Hayashi, Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, and others)
Cardiac Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury;pp. 69-88
(Vijaykumar Lingegowda, Mourad Alsabbagh, A. Ahsan Ejaz, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida, USA)
Innate and Adaptive Immune Response in Acute Kidney Injury: New Plays in the Play-Offs!;pp. 89-99
(Mariane Tami Amano, Matheus Correa-Costa, Meire Ioshie Hiyane, Giselle Martins Gonçalves, Niels Olsen Saraiva Camara, Laboratory of Transplantation Immunobiology, Department of Immunology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
Pandemic H1N1 Influenza A Infection and Acute Kidney Injury;pp. 101-109
(David Collister, Irfan Moledina, Katie Pundyk, Kerrett Wallace, Manish M. Sood, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Biomarkers in Acute Kidney Injury;pp. 111-140
(Michael A. Ferguson, Vishal S. Vaidya, Joseph V. Bonventre, Division of Nephrology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and others)*
Sepsis: Acute Kidney Injury and B2 Adrenoceptor Therapy;pp. 141-166
(Ako Nakamura, Department of Pediatrics, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan)*
Short Communication:
Role of Oxidative Stress in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury; 167-171
(Satoshi Hagiwara, Hironori Koga, Takayuki Noguchi, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu City, Japan)
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