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Nolph and Gokal's Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis

  • Constitutes reference work for nephrologists, clinicians, surgeons, and radiologists performing dialysis

  • Discusses new ways to advance the technique of peritoneal dialysis

  • Includes new coverage of the evolution of peritoneal dialysis from the eighties to current automated therapies

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Table of contents (32 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. History of Peritoneal Dialysis

    • D. Negoi, Ramesh Khanna
    Pages 1-26
  3. Current Status and Growth of Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Fahad Aziz, Ramesh Khanna
    Pages 27-45
  4. Peritoneal Structure and Changes as a Dialysis Membrane After Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Rafael Selgas, Kazuho Honda, Manuel López-Cabrera, Chieko Hamada, Lázaro Gotloib
    Pages 63-117
  5. The Physiology and Pathophysiology of Peritoneal Transport

    • Raymond T. Krediet, S. Furgeson, I. Teitelbaum
    Pages 119-162
  6. Peritoneal Dialysis Program Organization and Management

    • Maria Luongo, B. Prowant, L. Burrows, J. Neumann, L. Ponferrada
    Pages 163-201
  7. Peritoneal Dialysis Access and Exit-Site Care Including Surgical Aspects

    • P. Kathuria, Z. J. Twardowski, W. K. Nichols
    Pages 203-283
  8. Automated Peritoneal Dialysis

    • P. Kathuria, Z. J. Twardowski
    Pages 285-322
  9. Incremental Peritoneal and Hemodialysis

    • Rafia I. Chaudhry, Tushar Chopra, Natalie Nesmith McCall, Thomas Golper
    Pages 323-339
  10. Urgent-Start Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Arshia Ghaffari, Jim Hung Nguyen
    Pages 341-359
  11. Monitoring the Functional Status of the Peritoneum

    • Dirk G. Struijk, Ramesh Khanna
    Pages 361-391
  12. New Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions and Solutions on the Horizon

    • D. W. Johnson, Raymond T. Krediet
    Pages 393-415
  13. Blood Pressure Control in Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Panagiotis I. Georgianos, Rajiv Agarwal
    Pages 417-429
  14. Peritoneal Infections in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD Peritonitis)

    • Hariharan Regunath, Kyle Ludwig, Ramesh Khanna
    Pages 431-465
  15. Noninfectious Complications of Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Claire Kennedy, Joanne M. Bargman
    Pages 467-509
  16. Protein-Energy Wasting During Peritoneal Dialysis

    • Angeles Espinosa-Cuevas, Ailema González-Ortiz, Bengt Lindholm, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Juan Jesus Carrero
    Pages 511-535
  17. Calcium, Phosphate, and Renal Osteodystrophy

    • A. Vardhan, A. J. Hutchison
    Pages 537-573
  18. Cardiovascular Disease and Inflammation

    • Magdalena Jankowska, Bengt Lindholm, Peter Stenvinkel
    Pages 575-596
  19. Vascular Calcification and Calciphylaxis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

    • Ignacio A. Portales-Castillo, Preethi Yerram, Sagar Nigwekar
    Pages 597-617

About this book

This fourth edition comprehensively covers peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis represents an intracorporeal technique for blood purification. This unique dialysis system represents one of many human attempts to manipulate nature for sustenance of life. Recent advances have focused on further improvement of the technique, which are covered in full throughout the text. During the past decade, the time during which this therapy has been increasingly utilized, the 3rd Edition has continued to be recognized as the major source of the discipline's base knowledge. The evolution of this text to its newest edition parallels the growth of peritoneal dialysis from Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in the eighties to the current therapy that encompasses manual and automated therapies with full emphasis on adequacy of dialysis dose. 

Nolph and Gokal's Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis is the most in-depth publication on this dialysis technique and is an ideal resource for all clinicians practicing peritoneal dialysis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

    Ramesh Khanna

  • Dept. Medicine Div. Nephrology, University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Raymond T. Krediet

About the editors

Ramesh Khanna

Dr. Ramesh Khanna is a tenured Professor of Medicine, Director of the Karl D. Nolph, MD, Division of Nephrology at the School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Dr. Khanna has been actively involved in the field of nephrology for the past 50 years. He is fully engaged in patient care, teaching nephrology, translational research, and administration. His primary research interest is in applied physiology of solute and water transport across peritoneal membrane. In collaboration with Drs. Karl Nolph†, Dimitrios Oreopoulos†, and Zbylut Twardowski, Dr. Khanna’s research inventions resulted in clinical management guidelines and several patents. Dr. Khanna has consistently received the highest honors in the field both nationally and internationally. He is the current organizing chair of the successful “Annual Dialysis Conference,” which is in its 43rd year of consecutive existence. Dr. Khanna has authored/co-authored numerous papers in top journals, book chapters, abstracts, letters to the editor, and two books, the Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis, 4th edition, and the very popular beginner’s guide book The Essentials of Peritoneal Dialysis. In addition, he has presented in numerous conferences/workshops across the world. He has been the editorial board member of about 12 journals, and Section Editor of Clinical Nephrology, along with editor of Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis, PD News (Newsletter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis), and Peritoneal Dialysis Today (Highlights of the Annual Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis).

Raymond T. Krediet

Raymond (Ray) Krediet graduated in 1973 at the University of Amsterdam. In 1978 he completed his training as an internist-nephrologist and became Head of Nephrology at the Binnengasthuis, Amsterdam in 1979 where he introduced treatment with continuous ambulatory dialysis (CAPD).

In 1986 he was promoted on a PhD thesis, entitled “Peritoneal permeability in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.” In 1999 he became Professor and Head of the Department of Nephrology at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.

Professor Krediet supervised the research of 29 PhD students and is the author of 576 publications in scientific journals, of which 82% were on Nephrology. He was promotor of 31 PhD theses. His h-index is 72 (WoS).

 He is, among others, former chairman of the Dialysis Group Netherlands, the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, and the Nephrology Section of the European Union for Medical Specialists. He retired in October 2010, but is still involved in research and a number of academic and organizational activities. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Renal Association from 2012 to 2018. In 2011 he became an honorary member of the Netherlands Federation of Nephrology and in May 2012 he was awarded the International Distinguished Medal from the National Kidney Foundation in the USA. He contributed to the first edition of The Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis and is co-editor of the three subsequent editions.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nolph and Gokal's Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis

  • Editors: Ramesh Khanna, Raymond T. Krediet

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62087-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62086-8Published: 21 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62087-5Published: 20 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 941

  • Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nephrology, Cardiology

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