Multiple Choice Questions

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• Chapter 1 The Kidney: structural overview
• Chapter 2 The Kidney: functional overview
• Chapter 3 Development of the renal system
• Chapter 4 Clinical features of kidney disease
• Chapter 5 The Kidney: laboratory investigation and diagnostic imaging
• Chapter 6 Renal vascular biology
• Chapter 7 Glomerular filtration
• Chapter 8 Renal vascular disease
• Chapter 9 Erythopoietin and anemia in renal disease
• Chapter 10 Renal sodium handling
• Chapter 11 The kidney and water balance
• Chapter 12 Regulation of body sodium and body water
• Chapter 13 Disorders of sodium and water metabolism
• Chapter 14 Hyponatremia and hypernatremia
• Chapter 15 The edema states: sodium and water retention
• Chapter 16 Renal potassium handling
• Chapter 17 Regulation of potassium metabolism
• Chapter 18 Hypokalemia and hyperkalemia
• Chapter 19 Renal acid-base and buffer concepts
• Chapter 20 Renal acid-base handling
• Chapter 21 Acid-base regulation and responses to acid-base disturbances
• Chapter 22 Clinical disorders of acid-base metabolism and metabolic acidosis
• Chapter 23 Metabolic alkalosis, respiratory acidosis and respiratory alkalosis
• Chapter 24 Renal tubular acidosis
• Chapter 25 Calcium, phosphate, and magnesium metabolism
• Chapter 26 Regulation of divalent ions and disorders of phosphate and magnesium
• Chapter 27 Hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia
• Chapter 28 Drug and organic molecule handling by the kidney
• Chapter 29 Renal pharmacology: diuretics
• Chapter 30 Hereditary disorders of tubular transport
• Chapter 31 Polycystic kidney disease
• Chapter 32 Glomerular disease: an overview
• Chapter 33 Glomerular pathologies and their associated diseases
• Chapter 34 Specific diseases affecting the glomeruli
• Chapter 35 Proteinuria and the nephrotic syndrome
• Chapter 36 Tubulointerstitial disease
• Chapter 37 Hypertension: causes and clinical evaluation
• Chapter 38 Hypertension: complications and therapy
• Chapter 39 Pregnancy and the renal system
• Chapter 40 Diabetes mellitus and the kidney
• Chapter 41 Acute kidney injury: pathophysiology
• Chapter 42 Acute kidney injury: clinical aspects
• Chapter 43 Chronic kidney disease and kidney function in the elderly
• Chapter 44 Severe chronic kidney disease and renal bone disease
• Chapter 45 Severe chronic kidney disease: clinical complications and their management
• Chapter 46 Treatment of kidney failure with dialysis
• Chapter 47 Peritoneal dialysis and continuous hemofiltration
• Chapter 48 Renal transplantation
• Chapter 49 Global kidney medicine
• Chapter 50 Urinary tract infection
• Chapter 51 Renal tract stones
• Chapter 52 Renal tract cancer