Peritoneal dialysis: past and current practices / Mary C. Mallappallil -- Hemodialysis / Yalemzewd Woredekal -- Kidney transplantation / Fasika Tedla -- Home hemodialysis: present and future therapies / Barbara G. Delano -- Hemofiltration / Halim S. Ghali -- Self-care in-center hemodialysis / Susan H. Bray -- Opting for death rather than dialysis in chronic renal failure / Anthony J. Joseph -- Ethical concerns in marketing kidneys / Amy L. Friedman -- The wearable artificial kidney: a new paradigm in the treatment of ESRD / Victor Gura -- Xenotransplantation / Moro O. Salifu, Syed Shah, and Subodh Saggi -- Can the bowel serve as a kidney? / Eli A. Friedman