**Meet the editor**

Dr Manisha Sahay is currently the Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Osmania General Hospital & Osmania Medical College and Consultant Nephrologist, Aditya Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. She did her DNB in Nephrology in 2003 under National Board of Examinations, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India in which she secured first rank

and gold medal. She acquired her MD in 1998 from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad and MBBS from SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan. She was State topper in 10th Board Examination and has been awarded 12 gold medals till date. She has received the "Tanker – Young Investigator Award" of Indian Society of Nephrology. She has many publications to her credit both in national and international journals. She is the executive committee member of Young nephrologists' committee of International society of nephrology. She is also the governing body member of Indian society of nephrology. She has contributed to several textbooks and is the reviewer for Indian and international journals. She is the Associate editor of Journal of Academy of Medical Sciences and Guest Editor for Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism - Renal endocrinology.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Basics of Nephrology 1** 

Pierre Delanaye

Chapter 5 **Variability of Biological** 

Daliborca Cristina Vlad

Chapter 6 **The Metamorphosis of Acute Renal** 

Chapter 7 **Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy 151** 

**Part 2 Acute Kidney Injury 123** 

Manisha Sahay

Chapter 1 **Is Body Surface Area the Appropriate** 

Liesbeth Hoste and Hans Pottel

Chapter 2 **How Measuring Glomerular Filtration Rate? Comparison of Reference Methods 21** 

Chapter 3 **Effects of Preterm Birth on the Kidney 61** 

Jelena Stojanovic and John Sayer

**Index for Glomerular Filtration Rate? 3** 

Chapter 4 **Renal Potassium Handling and Associated Inherited Tubulopathies Leading to Hypokalemia 89** 

**Parameters in Blood Samples Between** 

**Failure to Acute Kidney Injury 125**  John W. Pickering and Zoltán H. Endre

Mary Jane Black, Megan R. Sutherland and Lina Gubhaju

**Two Consecutive Schedules of Hemodialysis 105**  Aurelian Udristioiu, Manole Cojocaru, Alexandra Dana Maria Panait, Radu Iliescu, Victor Dumitrascu and
