Renal Tubular Acidosis in Children

This book is a compilation of scientific knowledge regarding the clinical entity known as “Renal Tubular Acidosis in Children” (RTA). It contains the information needed to comprehend the intricate mechanisms of acid-base metabolism, electrolyte imbalance, and complications related to renal tubular acidosis in the pediatric age group, since the acid-base physiology and the clinical disorders associated with it in children are quite different from the adult counterpart.

The chapters, written by authors, experts in the field, describe systemic and renal physiology, electrolyte alterations, as well as the pathogenesis and chromosomal mutations leading to the development of RTA. The reader will find the latest information on diagnostic tools and learn how to approach diagnosis, avoiding improper treatment, rickets, nephrocalcinosis, and renal failure. In addition, new insights on classification, the clinical presentation of each type of RTA, molecular biology, and transmembrane protein transporters are covered.

This work is primarily directed at pediatric nephrologists and pediatricians. Nevertheless, general practitioners, medical students, residents and fellows at different medical training programs, and other health care professionals of nutrition, growth and development, gastroenterology and endocrinology may surely benefit from it.

Ricardo Munoz graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 1966. He completed a post-graduate specialty training in Pediatrics at Martland Hospital Unit, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA (1970-1973), a post-graduate subspecialty fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA (1973-1975). He is certified by the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, the Board of Medicine and Surgery, Virginia State Board of Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics, the University of the State of New York Education Department, and is board certified by the Mexican Board of Nephrology. He was member of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplantation Collaborative Study (NAPRTCS) and he is active member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Board of Nephrology. He was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Children´s Hospital at Albany Medical Center, New York, USA; chief of the Department of Pediatric Nephrology and director of the Hemodialysis Unit of the Children’s of Mexico (Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez); professor of Pediatric Nephrology at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University Autonomous of Mexico; medical researcher of the Children’s Hospital of Mexico (Hospital Infantil de México); medical investigator of the NAPRTCS; and medical researcher of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Munoz has received many awards, including Distinguished Professor of National Pediatrics of the State of Puebla, Mexico, and Ad Honorem Professor of the University of Santander, Colombia.