Chronic Disease and Disability: The Pediatric Kidney

This second edition is written for the primary care clinician to help  update knowledge of pediatric nephrology. The current and future  shortage of pediatric nephrologists necessitates steady, rejuvenated  information on the Aristolean kidney for primary care clinicians as they  care for the child and adolescent with renal and genitourinary dilemmas  and disorders. In view of this shortage and the rapidly increasing  knowledge in pediatric nephrology as well understanding indications for  referral to pediatric nephrologists in the 21st century, au courant  assiduous information aimed at primary care clinicians in these areas  becomes increasingly important. Chapters in this book cover  nephrological problems in different pediatric ages including newborns.  As noted by some of the ancient scholars, the kidney does not exist in  isolation, but is involved in other aspects of the body – thus, we  include chapters on the kidney in cardiac and other disorders.  Behavioral aspects of chronic disease, including renal disorders, are  also considered because of the importance that renal (and chronic)  disease has on the child and adolescent.