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The book has been updated with recent guidelines on the management of renal diseases in children. Some chapters of the book have been revised and a more uniform pattern of presentation of all chapters has been adopted. Appendices and an index have been included. Key Features: • Several luminaries from home and abroad have contributed in this book. • Designed with a practical approach to renal problems in children, faced by treating clinicians in their routine pediatric practice. • The book has been kept concise with simple language, making it more reader friendly. • Comprises of 29 chapters, dealing with basic renal functions, common renal conditions in day to day pediatric practice and some of the more complex renal problems in children. • Drug dosing guidelines for commonly used drugs in renal failure and a few useful appendices are also incorporated. • The two color format will be pleasing to the eye and will facilitate easy reading by highlighting boxes, tables and key messages.

Contents: 1. Evaluation of Renal Functions/Nimisha Arora, Abhijeet Saha and Narendra Bagri. 2. Diagnostic Evaluation of Renal Disease/Atul Deokar and Shashank Parekhji. 3. Imaging in Renal Diseases/Anand S Vasudev and Manish Kumar. 4. Antenatally Detected Anomalies of the Urinary Tract/Mehul A Shah. 5. Electrolyte Disorders/Kamini S Mehta. 6. Acute Glomerulonephritis/Jyoti Sharma. 7. Infectious Diseases and the Kidney/Kamran Afzal. 8. Hereditary Nephrit/Sudha Ekambaram and B.R. Nammalwar. 9. Hematuria in Children/Mukta Mantan. 10. Steroid-sensitive Nephrotic Syndrome/Kumud P Mehta. 11. Steroid-resistant Nephrotic Syndrome: A Treatable Disease/Sanjeev Gulati and Shrea Gulati. 12. Acute Renal Failure/Indira Agarwal. 13. Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome/Biplab Maji and Sushmita Banerjee. 14. Renal Vasculitis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus/Ashima Gulati and Arvind Bagga. 15. Urinary Tract Infection/Pankaj Hari.16. Vesicoureteral Reflux/Prabha Senguttuvan and Kalaivani G. 17. Renal Tubular Disorders/Uma Ali and Kiran P Sathe. 18. Renal Rickets/Late M Vijayakumar, S Thangavelu and Vinodh K Choudhary. 19. Hypertension in Children/Praveen K Pruthi and Kanav Anand. 20. Chronic Kidney Disease: Conservative Management/Rajasree Sreedharan and Cynthia G Pan. 21. Renal Replacement Therapy: Acute Dialysis in Children/Timothy E Bunchman. 22. Renal Replacement Therapy: Chronic Dialysis/Gurinder Kumar and Arpana A Iyengar. 23. Renal Transplantation in Children/Saumil Gaur and Kishore Phadke. 24. Obstructive Uropathy/Hui-Kim Yap and Lourdes P Resontoc. 25. Pediatric Urolithiasis: Stone Disease/Manoj G Matnani. 26. Bladder Dysfunction/Madhuri Kanitkar and Suprita Kalra. 27. Malignant Renal Tumors of Childhood/Amita Mahajan and Manas Kalra. 28. Medical Renal Diseases of the Newborn/Jayati Sengupta. 29. Drug Therapy in Renal Dysfunction/Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Aliza Mittal and Rupesh Raina. Appendices. Index.