Kostní minerály a skelet při chronickém onemocnění ledvin – Sotorník Ivo (2011)

The starting idea of this monograph was to present the issue of abnormalities in calcium phosphate metabolism and bone complications in chronic kidney disease from a broader perspective, i.e., not only in the context affecting adults with chronic nephropathy and post-kidney transplant, but also its status in children and adolescents similarly affected. Attention was also paid to several scientific fields thematically related in certain aspects. The publication is divided into 20 separate chapters. It discusses, among other things, the epidemiology and pathogenesis of renal osteopathy/osteodystrophy, the structure and physiology of the skeleton, the regulation of bone metabolism, investigative procedures including bone biopsies and histopathological findings, bone densitometry, diagnosis and therapy of the disease, percutaneous intervention and surgeries on the parathyroid glands, presents the issue of postoperative hypoparathyroidism, reimplantations and allotransplantations of parathyroid glands, cardiovascular complications, osteopathy after kidney transplantation and other vital organs, relationships to osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis, selected endocrinopathies and bone metabolism, sexual dysfunction in hemodialyzed patients, questions of hypercalciuria, etc. The book,…