Books in the Developments in Nephrology series

The initial observations of dialytic support were brought from the laboratory and confined to patients with reversible acute renal failure. There are presently over 80,000 patients on dialytic support in the United States and over 250,000 patients worldwide dependent on artificial replace ment.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Meeting on Current Therapy in Nephrology (Sorrento, Italy, May 27-30, 1990)

The strength of the volume lies in the incorporation of those data on renal cellular structure and function which hold the key to the etiology of the majority of renal diseases we now call 'end-stage'. Fully, two-thirds of the volume is devoted to current concepts of renal function and related subcellular structure of various renal tissues.