National Kidney Foundation's primer on kidney diseases

Structure and function of the kidney. Overview of kidney structure and function -- Kidney development -- Assessment of kidney function in acute and chronic settings -- Urinalysis and urine microscopy -- Hematuria and proteinuria -- Imaging the kidneys -- Acid/base and electrolytes. Hyponatremia and hypoosmolar disorders -- Hypernatremia -- Volume, edema and the clinical use of diuretics -- Disorders of potassium metabolism -- Disorders of calcium, phosphorus, & magnesium homeostasis -- Approach to acid-base disorders -- Metabolic acidosis -- Metabolic alkalosis -- Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis -- Glomerular diseases. Glomerular clinicopathologic syndromes -- Minimal change nephrotic syndrome -- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -- Membranous nephropathy -- Immunoglobulin a nephropathy and related disorders -- Kidney in systemic diseases. Complement-mediated glomerulonephritis and thrombotic microangiopathy -- Infection-related glomerulonephritis -- Viral nephropathies: human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis c virus, and hepatitis B virus -- Kidney involvement in systemic vasculitis -- Systemic lupus erythematosus and the kidney -- Pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of diabetic nephropathy -- The kidney in malignancy -- Myeloma, amyloid and other dysproteinemias -- Acute cardiorenal syndrome -- Hepatorenal syndrome and other liver-related kidney diseases -- Acute kidney injury. Clinical approach to the diagnosis of acute kidney injury -- Acute tubular injury and acute tubular necrosis -- Acute interstitial nephritis -- Management of acute kidney injury -- Drugs and the kidney. Kidney disease caused by therapeutic agents -- Principles of drug therapy in patients with reduced kidney function -- Hereditary kidney disease. Genetics and kidney disease (APOL1) -- Genetically based renal transport disorders -- Sickle cell nephropathy -- Polycystic and other cystic kidney diseases -- Nephronophthisis and medullary cystic kidney disease -- Alport's syndrome and thin basement membrane Dz -- Fabry disease -- Tubulointerstitial diseases. Chronic tubulointerstitial disease -- Obstructive uropathy -- Nephrolithiasis -- Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis -- Special circumstances. Kidney diseases in infants and children -- The kidney in pregnancy -- Kidney disease in the elderly -- Global kidney disease -- Chronic kidney disease. Development and progression of chronic kidney disease -- Staging and management of chronic kidney disease -- Nutrition and kidney disease -- Bone disorders in chronic kidney disease -- Cardiac function and cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease -- Anemia and other hematologic complications of chronic kidney disease -- Dialysis and transplantation. Hemodialysis and hemofiltration -- Peritoneal dialysis -- Outcome of end-stage renal disease therapies -- Selection of prospective kidney transplant recipients and donors -- Post-transplantation monitoring and outcomes -- Immunosuppression -- Transplant infectious disease -- Hypertension. Pathogenesis of hypertension -- Evaluation and management of hypertension -- Secondary hypertension."