Issues in Kidney Disease - Dialysis

Preface

Chapter 1. Milestones in Dialysis
(Stephen Z. Fadem – – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Kidney Associates, Houston, TX, USA)

Chapter 2. Transitional Care Units and Incident End Stage Kidney Disease
(Brendan Bowman – University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)

Chapter 3. Anemia Management in Dialysis Patients
(Ana Flávia Moura, Joan Araujo Oliveira Moitinho and José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna – Department of Internal Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, et al.)

Chapter 4. Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral Bone Disorder and Vascular Calcification
(Anju Mohan and Stuart M. Sprague – Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, USA, et al.)

Chapter 5. End-Stage Kidney Disease and Malignancy
(Harini Bejjanki, Omar Mamlouk and Biruh Workeneh – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, et al.)

Chapter 6. Dialysis Urea Clearance and Clearance Targets
(Andrew Davenport – UCL Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, London, UK)

Chapter 7. Fatigue in People Treated with Dialysis
(Federica Picariello, Hugh Rayner, Andrew Mooney, Joseph Chilcot and James Tattersall – Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, King’s College, London, UK, et al.)

Chapter 8. Reducing Hospitalizations and Readmissions in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients
(Fahad Aziz and Madhukar Misra – Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA, et al.)

Chapter 9. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Dialysis Patients
(Viviane Calice-Silva, Silvio Barberato and Roberto Pecoits-Filho – Research Department, Pro-Rim Foundation, Joinville, Brazil, and Department of Medicine, UNIVILLE, Joinville, Brazil, et al.)

Chapter 10. Basics in Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Fistula
(Vo Nguyen – Memorial Nephrology Associates, Olympia, WA, USA)

Chapter 11. Intensive Hemodialysis
(Athanasios Roumeliotis, Stefanos Roumeliotis and Andreas Pierratos – Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, et al.)

Chapter 12. Home Hemodialysis
(Ankur Shah, Devin McKelvey and Rebecca Kurnik Seshasai – Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, et al.)

Chapter 13. Online Hemodiafiltration in Chronic Kidney Disease – Through Clinical Practice to Evidence
(José A. Moura-Neto, José Carolino Divino-Filho, Ikuto Masakane and Bernard Canaud – Department of Internal Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, et al.)

Chapter 14. Palliative Care in Dialysis
(Rebecca Schmidt and Anas Diab – Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA)

Chapter 15. A 360° Global Peritoneal Dialysis Therapy Perspective:: Health Economics, Programs and Policies
(Natália Maria da Silva Fernandes, Celso Souza de Moraes Junior, Nicola Wearne, Bianca Davidson, Talerngsak Kanjanabuch and José Carolino Divino-Filho – Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Juiz de Fora Federal University, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, et al.)

Chapter 16. A 360° Global Peritoneal Dialysis Therapy Reality:: Clinical Experience and Evidence
(Ramón Paniagua, Marcela Ávila Diaz, Abdullah Khalaf Al-Hwiesh, Daniela Ponce, Welder Zamoner, André Luís Balbi, Johan Rosman and José Carolino Divino-Filho – Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Nefrológicas. UMAE Hospital de Especialidades Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico, et al.)

Chapter 17. Peritoneal Dialysis Education:: A Global Perspective
(Gustavo Moretta, Susana Marcos, Rosana Chaud, Kleyton Bastos, Carmen Arias Minaya and José Carolino Divino-Filho – Latin American Chapter (LAC-DD)-International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Escuela de Educación, San Andrés University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, et. al)

Chapter 18. Developments in Implantable and Wearable Artificial Kidneys
(Megha Salani and Thomas Golper – Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA, et al.)

Chapter 19. Green Dialysis:: A Necessary Trend
(José A. Moura-Neto, Ana Flávia Moura, Cassiano Augusto Braga Silva and John W.M. Agar – Department of Internal Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, et al.)