Prevention of Progressive Chronic Renal Failure.

Prevention is always better than cure, and chronic renal failure is a case in point. The end result of this process is terminal uraemia and death unless treatment by dialysis or renal transplantation is available. The numbers of new patients progressing annually to terminal renal failure have been estimated as 3000 in the United Kingdom and more than 30 000 in the United States. The medical and social consequences are considerable and the financial implications of these expensive forms of treatment enormous. Prevention of Progressive Chronic Renal Failure is therefore important and timely. It is the first of a new series of monographs on clinical nephrology which aims at …