**Meet the editor**

Dr Monika Göőz is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She is also an Associate Member of the College of Graduate Studies at MUSC, and an Affiliate Member of the Hollings Cancer Center. She earned her MD and PhD degrees at the Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, and completed her Fellowships at

the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, at the University of Oulu, Finland, and at MUSC. Dr Gooz is a member of several organizations including the American Physiological Society and the International Nephrology Society. She serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology, and is a special editor of The American Journal of Medical Sciences.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Monika Göőz

Chapter 1 **ADAM Proteases as Novel Therapeutic Targets in Chronic Kidney Disease 3** 

Syed Ahmed and Gerard Lowder

U. R. Onyemekeihia, C. O. Esume, E. Unuigbe, E. Oviasu, L. Ojogwu

Chapter 5 **Relationships Among Renal Function,** 

Chapter 6 **Sarcoidosis and Kidney Disease 87** 

Chapter 7 **Origins of Cardiorenal Syndrome** 

Chapter 8 **Sub-Types and Therapeutic** 

Chapter 2 **Severity and Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease 13** 

Chapter 4 **The Prevalence of Renal Osteodystrophy in Chronic** 

**Bone Turnover and Periodontal Disease 73**  Akihiro Yoshihara and Lisdrianto Hanindriyo

**and the Cardiorenal Connection 107**  L. G. Bongartz, M. J. Cramer and J. A. Joles

Margot Davis and Sean A. Virani

Chapter 9 **Atherosclerotic Renovascular Disease 149** 

and Cheng-Chung Cheng

Gen-Min Lin, Chih-Lu Han, Chung-Chi Yang

Chapter 3 **The New Kidney and Bone Disease: Chronic Kidney Disease – Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD–MBD) 25**  Igor G. Nikolov, Ognen Ivanovski and Nobuhiko Joki

**Renal Failure Patients in Urban Niger Delta of Nigeria 47** 

Tulsi Mehta, Anirban Ganguli and Mehrnaz Haji-Momenian

**Management of the Cardiorenal Syndrome 123** 
