• Clear and simple guide to the causes of kidney failure
• Looks at the new treatments available
• Ideal support for sufferer's families to explain some of the effects of the disease
• Emphasises the ability of patients with kidney failure to lead a relatively normal working life

Readership: Anyone interested in kidney disease, but particularly those who suffer from it, and their families.

Stewart Cameron, Professor of Renal Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London

"this is an excellent book. It will be greatly appreciated by patients and its existance should be made known to all Renal Patients' Associations. Copies should be available in out-patients departments." - Nephrol Dial Transplant

1.: What do kidneys do?
2.: How will I know if I have kidney failure?
3.: Who gets kidney failure
4.: What causes kidney failure?
5.: What happens in kidney failure?
6.: Treatment of kidney failure - haemodialysis
7.: Treatment of kidney failure - peritoneal dialysis
8.: Treatment of kidney failure - transplantation
9.: Putting the treatments together
10.: The future