Arici Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

• Practical manual covering all aspects of CKD care with a step-by-step approach from CKD stage 1 to stage 5
• Presentation of a comprehensive management plan for CKD patients
• Boxes summarizing the evidence on diagnostic and therapeutic issues
• Practice pearls based on guidelines
• Written by recognized experts from across the world, most of who have participated in writing guidelines on CKD

This book presents a comprehensive and instructive management plan for physicians who care for CKD patients. Basic aspects of CKD, clinical assessment, evaluation and management of risk factors, cardiovascular disease in the context of CKD, assessment and management of CKD complications, special circumstances in CKD patients, and the path to renal replacement therapy are all thoroughly covered. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are presented according to the latest staging system for CKD, with patient care being discussed separately for each disease stage. The proposed management plan is both “best available evidence based” and “practice based”. The book also recognizes the needs of busy clinicians by including helpful boxes summarizing the evidence on diagnostic and therapeutic issues and practice pearls based on guidelines. The authors are recognized experts from across the world, ensuring global coverage of the problem, and most have participated in writing guidelines on CKD.