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The Department of Renal Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital is the oldest and largest renal unit in Singapore. It had its humble beginnings in 1961 when pioneering doctors such as Professor Khoo Oon Teik and Dr Lim Cheng Hong delivered the first haemodialysis treatment to a British soldier who had suffered acute kidney injury from a motor-cycle accident. This was soon followed by the establishment of a chronic haemodialysis unit in 1968 and the first kidney transplant was performed in 1970. As services for patients with kidney diseases grew, the Department of Renal Medicine was officially established in 1973 with Dr Lim Cheng Hong as its founding head of department. Peritoneal dialysis was subsequently introduced in 1980 and since then the renal unit has grown by leaps and bounds to become a world-class, academic renal unit. This book is produced in the year 2023 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Department and to consolidate the years of experience and knowledge that the department has accrued from many generations of nephrologists and other healthcare professionals. This book is called The Kidney Book to recognise that kidney care is provided by an entire village of healthcare professionals and not only by physicians. It provides a multidisciplinary practical guide to the clinical management of common kidney conditions, procedures and situations encountered by physicians, residents, nurses, and other healthcare professionals involved in the dayto- day care of patients with kidney diseases. Being a book aimed at assisting in the daily clinical care of patients, it is written by nephrologists and allied health professionals in a deliberate pointby- point format with tables, algorithms, and figures to summarise important clinical practices and procedures that would be easy to refer to. Consistent with our strong collaborative and patient-centric values at the Singapore General Hospital, we are extremely grateful to our co-authors from various sub-specialties and other disciplines who have agreed to contribute chapters to this book. We are deeply appreciative of their efforts as well as their consensus on keeping this book as practical as possible. We would also like to thank our many other physicians, nurses and allied health professionals in our department who have not written a chapter but continue to work tirelessly to provide the best care and journey for our patients who struggle with kidney diseases. We hope that readers of this book will find it practically useful as well as a tool for learning and revision. The Kidney Book will also stand out among other similar books in that it is one of the few books written in English on nephrology from Asia. It will therefore appeal to the kidney community in this part of the world.