**Meet the editor**

Usman Mahmood is a consultant nephrologist at Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, Australia. He underwent postgraduate training in various public hospitals across three different states and has a range of experience in various areas of nephrology and general medicine, including both metropolitan and indigenous healthcare. His special interests include: chronic kidney

disease, fluid and electrolyte disorders, renal vasculitides, hemodialysis, general medical conditions, hypertension management, lupus nephritis, glomerulonephritis, and kidney transplantation. He has authored a number of book chapters and has published in various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Mahmood also enjoys teaching junior medical staff, including medical students. He can speak four languages and is well equipped to look after patients from a subcontinent background.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 3 **Metabolic Alkalosis 61**

Vanessa Heron

Chapter 6 **Potassium and Its Disorders 109** Vinay Srinivasa

Chapter 1 **Fluids and Sodium Imbalance: Clinical Implications 1**

Mireia Martínez Cortés and Pedro Gurillo Muñoz

Caius Mihai Breazu, Adrian Bartos and Dana Bartos

Chapter 5 **Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium Disorders 87**

Chapter 2 **Hyponatremia and Psychotropic Drugs 33**

Holly Mabillard and John A. Sayer

Chapter 4 **Bartter and Gitelman Syndromes 77**

Gilda Diaz-Fuentes, Bharat Bajantri and Sindhaghatta Venkatram
