(BQ) Part 1 book “ABC of kidney disease “ has contents: Diagnostic tests in chronic kidney disease, screening and early intervention in chronic kidney disease, chronic kidney disease – prevention of progression and of cardiovascular complications, adult nephrotic syndrome, renal artery stenosis, and other contents. | Kidney Disease Kidney Disease EDITED BY David Goldsmith Consultant Nephrologist, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK Satish Jayawardene Consultant Nephrologist, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Penny Ackland General Practitioner, Camberwell, London, UK © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007 BMJ Books is an imprint of the BMJ Publishing Group, used under licence Blackwell Publishing Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, Massachusetts 02148-5020, USA Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of the Author to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior written permission of the publisher. First published 2007 1 2007 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ABC of kidney disease / edited by David Goldsmith, Satish Jayawardene, and Penny Ackland. p. ; cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3675-4 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-3675-8 (alk. paper) 1. Kidneys--Diseases. 2. Family medicine. I. Goldsmith, David, 1959- II. Jayawardene, Satish. III. Ackland, Penny. [DNLM: 1. Kidney Diseases. 2. Kidney Failure, Chronic. WJ 300 A134 2007] 2007 ’1--dc22 2006103166 ISBN: 978-1-4051-3675-4 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Cover image of coloured computed tomography (CT) scan of a section through a whole healthy human kidney is courtesy of Alfred Pasieka / Science Photo Library Set in / 12 pt Minion by Sparks, Oxford – Printed and bound at GraphyCems, Navarra, Spain Commissioning Editor: Mary Banks Associate Editor: Vicki .