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Despite our efforts at creating clinical performance measures, clinical practice guidelines and intense government regulations, we still have disparities in care, poor outcomes and quality that is inferior to many other nations. Bundling and payment reform challenge the ability to deliver good care to patients even further. Chronic dialysis is at a crossroads. Physicians and providers must incorporate new approaches, reinventing the paradigm of how to plot the course of patient therapy. This book offers new ideas. It is refreshing, timely and engaging, with a wide range of topics by leading authors, each designed to help meet the challenges yet to come.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Tom F. Parker, III

1. Milestones in Dialysis
   Stephen Z. Fadem
2. The Course of Therapy – Changing the Paradigm
   Thomas A. Golper and Martin J. Schreiber, Jr.
3. Accept this Kidney or Continue Dialysis? A Strategic Approach to Donor Options
   Amy L. Friedman
4. Dialysis at Home - The Seattle Experience
   Chris Blagg
5. How do Clinical Outcomes of Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Compare with those of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis?
   Sunil V. Badve, Carmel M. Hawley and David W. Johnson
6. Intensified Hemodialysis Programs for Children and Adolescents
   Julia Thumfart and Dominik Müller
7. The Wearable Artificial Kidney – A Paradigm Change in the Treatment of ESRD
   Victor Gura
8. Is Dialysis Ever An Inappropriate Therapy?
   Susan Higley Bray
9. The Pre-eminent Role for Control of Extra-cellular Volume in Dialysis Therapy
   Richard J. Glassock
10. Mechanisms causing Muscle Wasting in Kidney Disease and other catabolic conditions
    William E. Mitch
11. The Dysregulated Immune System of Patients on Dialysis
    Alexander Grabner, Hermann Pavenstädt, Detlef Lang and Stefan Reuter
12. Is Serum Albumin a Useful Marker of Nutritional Status in Chronic Kidney Disease?
    Allon N. Friedman
13. The Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) and Vascular Calcification
    Keith A. Hruska, Yifu Fang and Toshifumi Sugatani
14. Update on Anemia and Kidney Disease
    Kiran M Goli, Arkadiy Pinkhasov, Daniel L Landry, Yossi Chait, Joseph Horowitz, Christopher V Hollot, Rajiv P Shrestha, and Michael J Germain
15. Accumulation of Toxic Metals and Trace Elements in Chronic Dialysis Patients, Tzung-Hai Yen, Dan-Tzu Lin-Tan and Ja-Liang Lin
16. Adequacy of Dialysis
    James Tattersall
17. The AV Fistula
    Fahad A. Syed and Eric K. Peden
18. Cardiac Surgery in the End Stage Renal Disease Population:General Considerations, Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes
    Javier E. Anaya-Ayala, Mark G. Davies and Michael J. Reardon
19. Assessing Quality of Life with the KDQOL-36
    Dori Schatell
20. Integrated Renal Disease Care
    Franklin W. Maddux