This book examines chronic kidney disease and its cardiovascular implications. Articles discuss management of peripheral arterial disease, hypertension, vascular access in hemodialysis, congestive heart failure, epidemiology of coronary artery disease and peripheral arterial disease, percutaneous coronary interventions in the high-risk renal patient with renal failure, pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease in renal failure, relavance of oxidative pathways, the kidney transplant recipient, managing cardiovascular disease in the dialysis patient, and implications of hyperlipidemia.