**Meet the editor**

Maria Goretti Moreira Guimarães Penido, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology Unit. She graduated medicine in 1980 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and obtained her Master Degree in Pediatric Nephrology in 1995 at

the same institution, as well as a PhD in Pediatric Nephrology in 2000. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bone and Mineral Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory, Section of Pediatric Nephrology, The Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, US. She is member of the Unity of Pediatric Nephrology, Clinics Hospital, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Mary Hammes

Chapter 1 **Bedside Linear Regression Equations to Estimate** 

Chapter 3 **The Brachio-Brachial Arteriovenous Fistula 35** 

Şerban Bubenek and Vlad Anton Iliescu

Konstantinos Pantelias and Eirini Grapsa

Chapter 6 **Hemodialysis Access Infections, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Prevention 87** 

Chapter 7 **Acute and Chronic Catheter in Hemodialysis 107**  Andrew S. H. Lai and Kar Neng Lai

Chapter 8 **Complex Wounds in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis 121** 

Marcos Antonio de Souza Barros, Manoel O. Mendez,

Chapter 9 **Specifications of the Quality of Granulated Activated Charcoal Used in Water Systems Treatment in** 

Aparecido R. Coutinho and Telma T. Franco

**Hemodialysis Centers in Brazil 147**  Eden Cavalcanti Albuquerque Júnior,

Elmer A. Fernández, Mónica Balzarini and Rodolfo Valtuille

Lucian Florin Dorobanţu, Ovidiu Ştiru, Cristian Bulescu,

Nirosha D. Gunatillake, Elizabeth M. Jarvis and David W. Johnson

**Equilibrated Blood Urea 1** 

Chapter 2 **Hemodialysis Access: The Fistula 17** 

Chapter 4 **Vascular Access for Hemodialysis 45** 

**of Hemodialysis Patients 69** 

Chapter 5 **Subjective Well-Being Measures** 

Paulo Roberto Santos

Masaki Fujioka
