Preface 1 Peritoneal Access
2 Peritoneal Equilibration Testing and Application
3 Peritoneal Dialysis Prescription
4 Dialysis During Infancy
5 Hypotension in Infants on Peritoneal Dialysis
6 Ethical Dialysis Decisions in Infants with End Stage Kidney Disease
7 Catheter Exit-site and Tunnel Infections 8 Peritonitis
9 Relapsing and Recurreny Peritonitis
10 Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Hydrothorax and Hernia
11 Ultrafiltration Failure
12 Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis
13 Difficult Vascular Access
14 Hemodialysis Prescription 15 Intensified Hemodialysis
16 Home Hemodialysis
17 Myocardial Stunning
18 Cather Related Blood Stream Infection
19 Intradialytic Hypotension: Potential Causes and Mediating Factors
20 Dialyzer Reaction
21 Nutritional Management of Infants on Dialysis 22 Nutritional Management of Children and Adolescents
23 Anemia
24 Chronic Kidney Disease: Mineral Bone Disorder
25 Growth Delay
26 Hypertension
27 Cardiovascular Disease
28 Sleep Disorders
29 Highly Sensitized Dialysis Patient 30 Health-Related Quality of Life in Youth on Dialysis
31 Non-adherence
32 Transition to Adult Care
33 Pregnancy in a Woman Approaching End Stage Kidney Disease
34 Withholding and Withdrawal of Dialysis
35 Does Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Have a Role in the Management of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)?
36 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy and AKI 37 &n
About the Author:
Bradley A. Warady, MD
University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Department of Pediatric Nephrology
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Franz Schaefer, MD
Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
Heidelberg, Germany
Steven R. Alexander, MD
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Stanford, California, USA