This reader-friendly resource provides a powerful, broad-based perspective on the most important advances from throughout the world literature. Featuring renowned guest editors and focusing exclusively on two topics, every issue of Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension delivers unvarnished, expert assessments of developments from the previous year.Insightful editorials and on-the-mark invited reviews cover key subjects such as circulation and hemodynamics; pathophysiology of hypertension; clinical nephrology; mineral metabolism; pharmacology and therapeutics; renal immunology, pathology and pathophysiology; dialysis and transplantation; and other topics of major relevance.All reviews are supplemented with an indispensable section, References and Recommended Reading. At the back of each volume is Current World Literature, an exceptionally thorough bibliography culled from the top 100 journals in the field.