Parent's Guide to Kidney Disorders

By Glenn H. Bock

The fifth volume of the University of Minnesota "Guides to Birth and Childhood Disorders" is designed to help parents, as well as older children and adolescents, understand the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney disorders. Like all volumes in the series, "A Parent's Guide to Kidney Disorders" integrates basic, diagnostic, and therapeutic information, and includes numerous case studies, photographs, and a glossary defining unfamiliar terms. "A Parent's Guide to Kidney Disorders" explains the basic anatomical and functional characteristics of the kidney, and relates these characteristics to many of the kidney diseases that may occur in childhood. In addition, the authors offer guidance and advice for parents and patients on coping effectively with the psychological effects of chronic illness on the family. Practical information on agencies providing support services is also given. In clear and approachable language, "A Parent's Guide to Kidney Disorders" offers an invaluable family resource for all those facing the challenge of kidney disease.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816617457
• ISBN13: 9780816617456
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Ausgezeichnetes Buch!

Very helpful for understanding the kidney and the children at the same time.

Good guide and need more about future

If you are parent of a chid with kidney disease, Read this book. Although some contents are already familiar with you, because you were told from your doctor, the suggestion of diet guideline and medication side-effects are helpful. Because therapies of the respective hospital are somewhat different, you have to know the side-effects of the medicines which your child take. Learning from this book, you can concern your doctor about your child's medications. But, I think the treatment methods of the future in this book are somewhat insufficient. Children will live longer than adult. So, I think supplement for this section will be needed.