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What is onconephrology?
Onconephrology focuses on all aspects of kidney disease in patients with malignancy, as well as areas where nephrology intersects with hematology. As the name implies, nephrologists and oncologists are well positioned to collaborate on this area of medicine.
What does this field of nephrology include?
- 1. Electrolyte disorders of malignancy
- 2. Secondary glomerular diseases of malignancy
- 3. Chemotherapy-related kidney complications
- 4. Targeted therapies and the kidney
- 5. Paraproteinemia
- 6. Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) and all its causes and treatment strategie
- 7. Bone marrow transplant–related kidney diseases
- 8. Radiation nephropathy
- 9. Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS
- 10. Acute kidney injury (AKI) in the hospitalized patient with malignancy
- 11. The ethics of dialysis during end of life in malignanc
- 12. Dosing of chemotherapy in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease ESKD)
- 13. Malignancy-associated obstructive kidney disease
- 14. Renal cell carcinoma and related complications post-nephrectom
