**Meet the editor**

Dr. Vijayakumar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Physiology at the University of Rochester. He has held research positions at the Columbia University in the City of New York as well as the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. As a young scientist, he has spent time at the University of Ulm,

Germany and International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. He has published in several leading journals such as the Journal of Cell Biology and Journal of Clinical Investigation, primarily on the role of hensin in acid-base physiology. His research has mainly focused on the cell biology and physiology of kidney collecting duct and his current work is on the extracellular matrix abnormalities in polycystic kidney disease.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Congenital Obstructive** 

Chapter 2 **Association Between** 

**Nephropathy: Clinical** 

Chapter 3 **Complexity of Differentiating** 

Chapter 4 **Epidemiology, Causes and** 

Chapter 5 **Extracellular Matrix** 

Chapter 6 **Angiogenesis and the** 

**Part 2 Polycystic Kidney Diseases 85** 

Soundarapandian Vijayakumar

**Pathogenesis of Autosomal** 

Berenice Reed and Wei Wang

**Part 1 Acute and Chronic Kidney Diseases 1** 

**Haemoglobin Variability and** 

**Cerebral-Renal Salt Wasting from SIADH, Emerging Importance** 

John K. Maesaka, Louis Imbriano,

Shayan Shirazian and Nobuyuki Miyawaki

**Perspectives and Animal Models 3**  Susan E. Ingraham and Kirk M. McHugh

**Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease 30**  Roshini Malasingam, David W. Johnson and Sunil V. Badve

**of Determining Fractional Urate Excretion 41** 

**Outcome of Obstetric Acute Kidney Injury 67**  Namrata Khanal, Ejaz Ahmed and Fazal Akhtar

**Abnormalities in Polycystic Kidney Disease 87** 

**Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease 93** 
