Part I. Looking at the disease of kidney failure
Chapter 1. What do kidneys do and what happens when they fail?
Chapter 2. Are you at risk for kidney failure?
Chapter 3. Symptoms of kidney failure
Part II. How to treat kidney failure
Chapter 4. Treating kidney failure
Chapter 5. Step one: assess your kidney failure treatment
Chapter 6. Step two: make life style changes
Chapter 7. Step three: follow a low-protein diet
Chapter 8. Step four: treat salt and water problems
Chapter 9. Step five: regulate your blood pressure
Chapter 10. Step six: treat acidosis
Chapter 11. Step seven: treat anemia and iron deficiency
Chapter 12. Step eight: treat potassium problems
Chapter 13. Step nine: Treat calcium and phosphate problems
Chapter 14. Step ten: treat gout and uric acid problems
Chapter 15. Step eleven: treat your high cholesterol
Chapter 16. Step twelve: knowing the medication that slows the progression of renal failure
Part III. Tracking kidney failure, dialysis, transplanst, and more
Chapter 17. Keeping close watch on your kidney failure
Chapter 18. Dietary treatment of the nephrotic syndrome
Chapter 19. Safe and unsafe drugs
Chapter 20. Transplantation as an alternative to dialysis
Chapter 21. When to opt for dialysis
Chapter 22. Examples of patients who have avoided dialysis.
