International Year Book of Nephrology

Renal physiology; Control of renal vascular tone by endothelin and nitric oxide; New insights in the pathogenesis of nephrotic oedema; Metabolic acidosis as a stimulus for protein and amino-acid catabolism; The kidney in pregnancy; Is chronic renal disease a contraindication to pregnancy?; Hereditary renal diseases; Alport syndrome: new understandings based upon the molecular defect; Vascular diseases of the kidney; Autoantibodies: their usefulness in distinguishing different forms of vasculitis; Paediatric nephrology; Protection of the immature stressed kidney; Treatment of growth retardation in uraemic children; Geriatric nephrology; A clinical approach to urinary incontinence in the elderly; Acute renal failure; Multiple organ dysfunction in the intensive therapy unit; Chronic renal failure; The management of hyperlipidaemia in patients with renal disease; Erythropoietin resistance in chronic uraemic patients; Haemodialysis; Prevention of intradialytic morbidity by optimization of dialysate sodium profile; Renal transplantation; Is intervention feasible in chronic transplant rejection?; Diagnostic methods in nephrology.