A: Placenta and fetal water flux -- Water flux and fetal amniotic fluid volume: understanding fetal water flow -- Body water changes in the fetus and newborn: normal transition after birth and the effects of intrauterine growth aberration -- B: Electrolyte balance during normal fetal and neonatal development -- Renal aspects of sodium metabolism in the fetus and newborn -- Potassium metabolism -- Renal urate metabolism in the fetus and newborn -- Perinatal calcium and phosphate metabolism -- Acid-base homeostasis in the fetus and newborn -- C: The kidney, normal development and hormonal control -- Glomerular filtration rate in neonates -- D: Special problems -- The developing kidney and the fetal origins of adult cardiovascular disease -- Renin modulation: renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system -- Renal modulation: arginine vasopressin and atrieal natriuretic peptide -- Acute problems of prematurity: balancing fluid volume and electrolyte replacement in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight neonates -- Lung fluid balance in developing lungs and its role in neonatal transition -- Use of diurects in the newborn -- Neonatal hypertension: diagnosis and management -- Edema -- Kidney injury in the neonate -- Hereditary tubulopathies -- Obstructive uropathies: assessment of renal Function in the fetus

1. Infant
2. newborn
3. diseases
4. Kidney diseases -- in infancy & childhood
5. Water-Electrolyte imbalance