This fourth edition comprehensively covers peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis represents an intracorporeal technique for blood purification. This unique dialysis system represents one of many human attempts to manipulate nature for sustenance of life. Recent advances have focused on further improvement of the technique, which are covered in full throughout the text. During the past decade, the time during which this therapy has been increasingly utilized, the 3rd Edition has continued to be recognized as the major source of the discipline's base knowledge. The evolution of this text to its newest edition parallels the growth of peritoneal dialysis from Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in the eighties to the current therapy that encompasses manual and automated therapies with full emphasis on adequacy of dialysis dose.
Nolph and Gokal's Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis is the most in-depth publication on this dialysis technique and is an ideal resource for all clinicians practicing peritoneal dialysis.
Author Biography:
Ramesh Khanna
Dr. Ramesh Khanna is a tenured Professor of Medicine, Director of the Karl D. Nolph, MD, Division of Nephrology at the School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Dr. Khanna has been actively involved in the field of nephrology for the past 50 years. He is fully engaged in patient care, teaching nephrology, translational research, and administration. His primary research interest is in applied physiology of solute and water transport across peritoneal membrane. In collaboration with Drs. Karl Nolph†, Dimitrios Oreopoulos†, and Zbylut Twardowski, Dr. Khanna’s research inventions resulted in clinical management guidelines and several patents. Dr. Khanna has consistently received the highest honors in the field both nationally and internationally. He is the current organizing chair of the successful “Annual Dialysis Conference,” which is in its 43rd year of consecutive existence. Dr. Khanna has authored/co-authored numerous papers in top journals, book chapters, abstracts, letters to the editor, and two books, the Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis, 4th edition, and the very popular beginner’s guide book The Essentials of Peritoneal Dialysis. In addition, he has presented in numerous conferences/workshops across the world. He has been the editorial board member of about 12 journals, and Section Editor of Clinical Nephrology, along with editor of Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis, PD News (Newsletter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis), and Peritoneal Dialysis Today (Highlights of the Annual Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis).
Raymond T. Krediet
Raymond (Ray) Krediet graduated in 1973 at the University of Amsterdam. In 1978 he completed his training as an internist-nephrologist and became Head of Nephrology at the Binnengasthuis, Amsterdam in 1979 where he introduced treatment with continuous ambulatory dialysis (CAPD).
In 1986 he was promoted on a PhD thesis, entitled “Peritoneal permeability in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.” In 1999 he became Professor and Head of the Department of Nephrology at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.
Professor Krediet supervised the research of 29 PhD students and is the author of 576 publications in scientific journals, of which 82% were on Nephrology. He was promotor of 31 PhD theses. His h-index is 72 (WoS).
He is, among others, former chairman of the Dialysis Group Netherlands, the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, and the Nephrology Section of the European Union for Medical Specialists. He retired in October 2010, but is still involved in research and a number of academic and organizational activities. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Renal Association from 2012 to 2018. In 2011 he became an honorary member of the Netherlands Federation of Nephrology and in May 2012 he was awarded the International Distinguished Medal from the National Kidney Foundation in the USA. He contributed to the first edition of The Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis and is co-editor of the three subsequent editions.
