This volume contains 17 articles on uric acid in chronic kidney disease. Nephrologists and other researchers from Asia, Mexico, the US, and Italy discuss renal handling of uric acid; the renal effects of hyperuricemia; the pathophysiology of uric acid in renal diseases; uric acid metabolism affecting renal parenchyma and its function; the association between serum uric acid and renal damage; the significance of hyperuricemia in chronic kidney disease among community-based screening participants; uric acid concepts in tubular transport; gout; the systemic implications of hyperuricemia; the effects of high blood uric acid in preeclampsia, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and high blood pressure in the young; uric acid as a factor in the acceleration of renal diseases; the effects of hyperuricemia on the progression of chronic renal failure; the benefits of low uric acid in the prognosis of chronic uremia; treatment of hyperuricemia in chronic kidney disease; and uric acid renal lithiasis. Articles were to be presented at the International Satellite Symposium on Uric Acid in Chronic Renal Disease, to be held in April 2017, which was cancelled. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
