Khronicheskaya bolezn" pochek predstavlyaet soboy khronicheskoe zabolevanie, kharakterizuyushcheesya progressiruyushchim snizheniem pochechnykh funktsiy. V monografii predstavleny dannye o rasprostranennosti khronicheskoy bolezni pochek v Respublike Kareliya v nastoyashchee vremya, ob osobennostyakh korrektsii pochechnoy anemii, arterial"noy gipertenzii. Privedeny rezul"taty issledovaniya ekspressii mRNK genov kaspaz v leykotsitakh perifericheskoy krovi pri khronicheskoy bolezni pochek. Predstavleny sobstvennye dannye o chastote zlokachestvennykh novoobrazovaniy pri khronicheskoy bolezni pochek, opisan sluchay paraneoplasticheskoy nefropatii i pochechnoy nedostatochnosti, potrebovavshey zamestitel"noy pochechnoy terapii, u bol"nogo s tremya razlichnymi zlokachestvennymi novoobrazovaniyami.