The goal of this text is to provide a comprehensive review of the path ophysiology and clinical manifestations of the principal cardiovascula r complications in patients with chronic renal failure. The text is in tended to assist nephrologists, cardiologists, and internists who care for these patients. The book includes nineteen chapters and is organi sed in three parts. The first includes three chapters dealing with the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in patients with end-sage rena l failure. The second comprises eight chapters on the basic pathophysi ology and pathobiology of...