Foreword by Claudio Ronco -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Future of Renal Replacement Therapy in End Stage Kidney Disease Patients (Bernard Canaud, Ellen Busink, Katrin Koehler, Sudhir Bowry, and Christian Apel) -- Chapter 2. Kidney Patient Education: Philosophy, Practice, and Resources (Dori Schatell )-- Chapter 3. Comprehensive Review of Iron Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease (Stephen Z. Fadem) -- Chapter 4. When Dialysis is Not a Good Option; a Narrative Review of the Dilemma of Renouncing Renal Replacement Therapy (José A. Moura-Neto, Ana Flavia Moura, Daniela de Q. Moura, and José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna) -- Chapter 5. Modeling Dialysis: Understanding and Managing Physiologic Manipulation in ESRD (John A. Sargent) -- Chapter 6. Incremental Hemodialysis (Kamonwan Tangvoraphonkchai and Andrew Davenport) -- Chapter 7. Chronic Fluid Overload in Hemodialysis (Fahad Aziz and Madhukar Misra) -- Chapter 8. Future of AV Access: Novel Conduits and Strategies for Improving Maturation (Dalila White, Philip L. Auyang, and Eric K. Peden) -- Chapter 9. Hemodialysis frequency: It is time to change the prescription (Nathalia P. Paschoalin Carvalho, Túlio Coelho Carvalho, and Raphael P. Paschoalin) -- Chapter 10. Convective Therapies in the Treatment of CKD Stage 5 Patients: to Be or Not to Be Convincing (José Carolino Divino-Filho and Ikuto Masakane) -- Chapter 11. Controversies and Future Trends in Peritoneal Dialysis (Vanessa Burgugi Banin, Dayana Bitencourt Dias, Jacqueline Teixeira Caramori, Pasqual Barretti, and Daniela Ponce) -- Chapter 12. Peritoneal Dialysis Therapy in the Acute Kidney Injury Setting: Back to the Future (José Carolino Divino-Filho) -- Chapter 13. We Need to Talk about Living Kidney Donation (José A. Moura-Neto, Ana Flavia Moura, and Edison Souza)-- Chapter 14. Immunosuppressive Therapies after Kidney Transplantation: the Old Challenges of New Strategies (Lucía Alejandra Alfaro Villanueva, Juliana Busato Mansur Siliano, Laila Almeida Viana, Marina Pontello Cristelli, Patricia Cristina Grenzi, Helio Tedesco-Silva Junior, José Osmar Medina-Pestana, and Claudia Rosso Felipe) -- Chapter 15. The Future of Renal Transplantation (Matthew L. Holzner, Nandita Singh, and Ron Shapiro) -- Chapter 16. Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography: from Native Kidneys to Allografts (Ana Flavia Moura, José A. Moura-Neto, and Nordeval C. Araujo) -- Chapter 17. Rare Renal Diseases and Renal Replacement Therapy: What We Know Now (Cassiano Augusto Braga Silva, Fellype de Carvalho Barreto, Maria Helena Vaisbich, and Osvaldo Merege Vieira Neto) -- Chapter 18. Obesity and Renal Replacement Therapy (Jorge Luiz de Carvalho Henriques Junior and Joan Araujo Oliveira Moitinho) -- Chapter 19. Nephro-geriatrics (Carmen Tzanno-Martins and Cassia Gomes S. Santos) -- Chapter 20. The History and Future of cyberNephrology and Relationship to the Banff Classification (Kim Solez, Assel Rakhmetova, Nikhil Shah, Lekhini Bhatt, Ishita Moghe, and James Burdick)