Industry Reviews Thirty-seven contributions discuss the reasons for dietary therapy and detail its management. In countries where dialysis is not performed, dietary therapy may substitute replacement therapy until problems of fluid retention appear. Dietary treatment is not necessarily an alternative to dialysis, but is an important option when dialysis is not performed. When dialysis is performed, dietary treatment is of enormous help as a complementary therapy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. SciTech Book News