Renal Tubular Acidosis in Children

Systemic Regulation of Acid-Base Metabolism.- Renal Regulation of Acid-Base Metabolism.- Physiology of Renal Potassium Handling.- Genetic Origins of Renal Tubular Acidosis.- History of Renal Tubular Acidosis.- Classification of Renal Tubular Acidosis.- Laboratory Diagnosis of Renal Tubular Acidosis.- Proximal Renal Tubular Acidosis (Type II).- Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis (Type 1 DRTA).- Hyperkalemia Renal Tubular Acidosis ( RTA Type IV).- Renal Tubular Acidosis due to Miscellaneous Etiology.

Ricardo Munoz graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 1966. He completed a post-graduate specialty training in Pediatrics at Martland Hospital Unit, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA (1970-1973), a post-graduate subspecialty fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA (1973-1975). He is certified by the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, the Board of Medicine and Surgery, Virginia State Board of Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics, the University of the State of New York Education Department, and is board certified by the Mexican Board of Nephrology. He was member of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplantation Collaborative Study (NAPRTCS) and he is active member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Board of Nephrology. He was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Children´s Hospital at Albany MedicalCenter, New York, USA; chief of the Department of Pediatric Nephrology and director of the Hemodialysis Unit of the Children's of Mexico (Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez); professor of Pediatric Nephrology at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University Autonomous of Mexico; medical researcher of the Children's Hospital of Mexico (Hospital Infantil de México); medical investigator of the NAPRTCS; and medical researcher of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Munoz has received many awards, including Distinguished Professor of National Pediatrics of the State of Puebla, Mexico, and Ad Honorem Professor of the University of Santander, Colombia.