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Table of Contents:

Contributing Authors
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface
1 Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism in Renal Disease and in Renal Failure 1
2 Carbohydrate Metabolism in Renal Failure 25
3 Altered Lipid Metabolism and Serum Lipids in Renal Disease and Renal Failure 41
4 Uremic Toxicity 63
5 Oxidant Stress 99
6 Carbonyl Stress in Uremia 111
7 Homocysteine 117
8 Cytosolic Calcium in Chronic Renal Failure, Diabetes Mellitus, and Phosphate Depletion 125
9 Metabolic and Nutritional Responses to Acidemia 151
10 Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Renal Failure 159
11 Causes of Protein-Energy Malnutrition in Chronic Renal Failure 167
12 Malnutrition as a Risk Factor of Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Dialysis 183
13 Role of Inflammation in Malnutrition and Atherosclerosis in Chronic Renal Failure 199
14 Effect of Malnutrition and Changes in Protein Intake on Renal Function 213
15 Assessment of Protein-Energy Nutritional Status 223
16 Influence of Dietary Protein Intake on the Progression of Chronic Renal Insufficiency 241
17 Calcium, Phosphorus and Vitamin D Metabolism in Renal Diseases and Chronic Renal Failure 261
18 Nutritional Management of Water, Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, and Magnesium in Renal Disease and Renal Failure 287
19 Trace Element Metabolism in Renal Disease 299
20 Vitamin Metabolism and Requirements in Renal Disease and Renal Failure 315
21 Carnitine in Renal Failure 357
22 Nutrition and Anemia in End-Stage Renal Disease 369
23 Nutritional Management of Nondialyzed Patients with Chronic Renal Failure 379
24 Nutritional and Nonnutritional Management of the Nephrotic Syndrome 415
25 Nutritional Management of Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis 433
26 Intradialytic Parenteral Nutrition 467
27 Nutritional Effects and Nutritional Management of Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis 477
28 Nutritional Management of Renal Transplantation 513
29 Nutritional Management of the Child with Kidney Disease 527
30 Nutritional Management of Acute Renal Failure 549
31 Nutritional Management of Patients Treated with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy 573
32 Therapeutic Use of Growth Factors in Renal Disease 581
33 Drug-Nutrient Interactions in Renal Failure 593
34 Rehabilitative Exercise Training in Patients Undergoing Dialysis 605
35 Nutritional Factors in Hypertension 621
36 Achieving Patient Adherence to Diet Therapy 629
37 Nutrition Plans, Meal Patterns, and Supplements for Acute and Chronic Renal Failure 641
Subject Index 649