Kidney Disease Research Updates
Spring/Summer 2009

Featured in the NIDDK Reference Collection

Nephrology and Hypertension

The Handbook of Nephrology & Hypertension, Sixth Edition is a concise guide for treating patients with a wide range of kidney disorders and hypertension. The handbook offers practical information about medications, dialysis, and kidney transplantation, including specific chapters about approaches to treating patients with renal disease; glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases and vasculitis; hereditary diseases; disorders of water, electrolytes, and acid-base regulation; diseases of the urinary system; hypertension; drug use in hypertension and renal disease; and the diagnosis and management of renal failure.

Written by experts, the handbook provides essential information for a variety of health care professionals, including residents, fellows, general practitioners, internists, and specialists in other medial fields. Formatted in bulleted lists, outlines, and charts, information is easily accessible. Edited by Christopher S. Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., and C. Craig Tisher, M.D., and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, the 384-page handbook costs $59.95 and is available by contacting the publisher at P.O. Box 1620, Hagerstown, MD 21741, 1–800–638–3030, www.lww.com.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Reference Collection is a free, online database that helps health care professionals, health educators, patients, and the general public find educational materials not typically referenced in most databases. The NIDDK does not control or endorse the information contained in this collection; the information is provided as a convenience to our visitors. To find more resources about kidney disease, visit www.catalog.niddk.nih.gov/resources.

NIH Publication No. 09–4531
August 2009

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