Vital Nephrology

Dr Andy Stein is Consultant Nephrologist and General Physician at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. Janet Wild is Clinical Education Manager at Baxter Healthcare Renal Division and has been a renal nurse since 1988. Dr Paul Cook is Renal Registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Chapter 1 Chronic renal failure (CRF); Chapter 2 Renal biopsy; Chapter 3 Renal angiogram; Chapter 4 Assessment of acute renal failure; Chapter 5 Management of acute renal failure; Chapter 6 Nephrotic syndrome; Chapter 7 Renal bone disease; Chapter 8 Anaemia and EPO; Chapter 9 Peritoneal dialysis and catheter insertion; Chapter 10 Peritonitis and other problems with PD; Chapter 11 Vascular access for haemodialysis; Chapter 12 Complications of haemodialysis catheters; Chapter 13 Transplants; Chapter 14 Non-concordance with treatment; Chapter 15 Death and bereavement; Appendix; Hints on prescribing; Glossary of abbreviations; Further reading Index