This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the critical field of tropical nephrology, bridging the disciplines of nephrology, infectious diseases, and tropical medicine. With a focus on the interconnectedness of these fields, it highlights how numerous infectious and parasitic diseases endemic to tropical regions impact kidney health. Recognized as neglected tropical diseases by the World Health Organization, these conditions are often linked to poverty and lack of effective prevention and treatment policies.
The tropics, home to nearly 40% of the global population, are projected to encompass 55% by 2050. Many countries in these regions face significant healthcare challenges, making this book an invaluable resource for healthcare professionals and researchers dealing with tropical diseases and their complications, such as kidney injury.
This updated edition compiles 35 chapters detailing prevalent tropical diseases affecting the kidneys, offering the latest epidemiological data, clinical manifestations, and treatment options. New chapters address contemporary issues like climate change, chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology, and the impact of environment on kidney health (evidenced in chapters about Haff disease and herbal nephropathy). Essential for clinicians, nephrologists and infectious disease specialists, this book is particularly relevant for those working in tropical areas or treating travelers and immigrants.
Chapter
1. Tropical Diseases: A Public Health Problem with Impact on
Nephrology.
Chapter
2. Climate Change and the Risk of Illness.
Chapter
3.
Chronic Kidney Disease of Undetermined Origin: Possible Associations with
Tropical Diseases and Climate Change.
Chapter
4. Assessment of Renal
Function in Tropical Diseases.
Chapter 5.Snake Poisoning and Kidney
Complications.
Chapter
6. Bleeding Accidents due to Lonomia obliqua.-
Chapter
7. Nephropathy from Scorpion Stings.
Chapter
8. Spider Bite
Nephropathy.
Chapter
9. Ant Bite Nephropathy.
Chapter
10. Nephropathy due
to Marine Toxins.
Chapter
11. Haff's Disease.
Chapter
12. Nephropathy due
to Exogenous Poisoning.
Chapter
13. Nephropathies Associated with the Use of
Herbs.
Chapter
14. Renal Involvement in Arboviruses Chikungunya, Dengue
and Zika.
Chapter
15. Acute Kidney Injury in Yellow Fever.
Chapter
16.
Influenza Virus Nephropathy (H1N1) .
Chapter
17. COVID-19, Pandemic and the
Risk of Kidney Disease.
Chapter
18. Hantaviruses and Renal Syndrome.-
Chapter
19. Viral Hepatitis and Kidney Disease.
Chapter
20. HIV-Associated
Kidney Disease.
Chapter
21. Renal Involvement in Chagas Disease (American
Trypanosomiasis) .
Chapter
22. Tropical Diseases in Kidney Transplantation.-
Chapter
23. Kidney Disease Associated with Schistosomiasis Mansoni.
Chapter
24. Lymphatic Filariasis Nephropathy.
Chapter
25. Post-Streptococcal and
Epidemic Glomerulonephritis.
Chapter
26. Staphylococcal Infections and
Kidney Disease.
Chapter
27. Leprosy Nephropathy.
Chapter
28. Renal
Involvement in American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.
Chapter
29. Visceral
Leishmaniasis Nephropathy (Kala Azar) .
Chapter
30. Leptospirosis and Weil
Syndrome.
Chapter
31. Malaria and Kidney Complications.
Chapter
32. Acute
Kidney Injury in Tetanus.
Chapter
33. Renal Tuberculosis.
Chapter
34.
Syphilis and Kidney Disease.
Chapter
35. The Kidney in Sickle Cell Disease.-
Chapter
36. Armed Conflicts, Immigrant Health and Tropical Diseases.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior is a physician and nephrologist. After studying at the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Cearį (UFC) he completed residencies in clinical medicine at César Cals General Hospital and in nephrology at the Walter Cantķdio University Hospital at UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil. He also holds a specialist degree from the Brazilian Society of Nephrology (SBN) / Brazilian Medical Association (AMB), and a masters and PhD in Medical Sciences from the UFC. He also completed a post doctorate in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and an MBA in Innovation and Health Services Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He is a Full Professor of Medicine and Postgraduate Programs in Medical Sciences and Public Health at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), specialist physician at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Cearį (IFCE), and a member of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology (SBN), Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH) and Fellow of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). Further, he is a Productivity Scholar of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), PQ-1D.
Elizabeth De Francesco Daher is a physician and nephrologist. She holds a masters and PhD in Medicine (Nephrology) from the University of Sćo Paulo (USP) and is a Full Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine and the Graduate Program in Medical Sciences of the Federal University of Cearį (UFC). She is also ex-Dean of Extension of the Federal University of Cearį (UFC); Preceptor of the Internship and of the Medical Residency of the General Hospital of Fortaleza; and Voluntary Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, USA. Further she is a member of the Teaching and Titling Department of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology. Productivity Scholar of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), PQ-1B.
Elvino Barros is a physician and nephrologist at the Hospital de Clķnicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. He holds a masters in Medicine (Nephrology) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Doctor of Medicine (Nephrology) from the Federal University of Sćo Paulo (UNIFESP) and is a Full Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine of the UFRGS.
