Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Lynda Stuart and Jeremy Hughes

Apoptosis and autoimmunity
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 697-700; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.697 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christlieb Haller

Percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with renal failure: overcoming in-stent restenosis?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 701-703; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.701 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mahboob Lessan-Pezeshki

Pregnancy after renal transplantation: points to consider
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 703-707; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.703 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hypothesis:

Shih-Hua Lin, Yuh-Feng Lin, Surinder Cheema-Dhadli, Mogamat Razeen Davids, and Mitchell L. Halperin

Hypercalcaemia and metabolic alkalosis with betel nut chewing: emphasis on its integrative pathophysiology
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 708-714; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.708 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Controversies:

Gerhard Opelz

Very short ischaemia is not the answer
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 715-716; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.715 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert A. P. Koene

Should the allocation of cadaveric kidneys for transplantation be based on HLA matching?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 717-718; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.717 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Child - Adult Interface:

Uwe Querfeld

Is atherosclerosis accelerated in young patients with end-stage renal disease? The contribution of paediatric nephrology
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 719-722; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.719 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Francesco Locatelli, Jorge B. Cannata-Andía, Tilman B. Drüeke, Walter H. Hörl, Denis Fouque, Olof Heimburger, and Eberhard Ritz

Management of disturbances of calcium and phosphate metabolism in chronic renal insufficiency, with emphasis on the control of hyperphosphataemia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 723-731; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.723 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congress Report:

Walter H. Hörl

Secondary hyperparathyroidism: present and future therapeutic implications
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 732-733; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.732 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Paul Cockwell, Judith W. Calderwood, Christopher J. Brooks, Srabasti J. Chakravorty, and Caroline O. S. Savage

Chemoattraction of T cells expressing CCR5, CXCR3 and CX3CR1 by proximal tubular epithelial cell chemokines
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 734-744; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.734 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philip W. Peake, Bruce A. Pussell, Bruce Mackinnon, and John A. Charlesworth

The effect of pH and nucleophiles on complement activation by human proximal tubular epithelial cells
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 745-752; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.745 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruno Vogt, Bernhard Dick, Hans-Peter Marti, Felix J. Frey, and Brigitte M. Frey

Reduced 11ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in experimental nephrotic syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 753-758; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.753 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aisling C. McMahon, Stephen E. Greenwald, Susan M. Dodd, Martin J. Hurst, and Anthony E. G. Raine

Prolonged calcium transients and myocardial remodelling in early experimental uraemia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 759-764; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.759 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aquiles Jara, Cecilia Chacón, and Arnold J. Felsenfeld

How dietary phosphate, renal failure and calcitriol administration affect the serum calcium–phosphate relationship in the rat
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 765-771; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.765 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kaija Inkinen, Anu Soots, Leena Krogerus, Cathrien Bruggeman, Juhani Ahonen, and Irmeli Lautenschlager

Cytomegalovirus increases collagen synthesis in chronic rejection in the rat
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 772-779; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.772 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judith Adams, Giulio Odoni, Hiroaki Ogata, Christiane Viedt, Kerstin Amann, Eberhard Ritz, and Stephan R. Orth

Combination treatment with an ET_A-receptor blocker and an ACE inhibitor is not superior to the respective monotherapies in attenuating chronic transplant nephropathy in a ‘Fisher-to-Lewis’ rat model
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 780-787; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.780 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Ringer Ellingsen, Jens Randel Nyengaard, Ruth Østerby, Kaj Anker Jørgensen, Steffen Ellebæk Petersen, and Niels Marcussen

Measurements of cortical interstitium in biopsies from human kidney grafts: how representative and how reproducible?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 788-792; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.788 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hendrik Bos, Robert H. Henning, Paul E. de Jong, Dick de Zeeuw, and Gerjan Navis

Do severe systemic sequelae of proteinuria modulate the antiproteinuric response to chronic ACE inhibition?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 793-797; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.793 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tsukasa Nakamura, Chifuyu Ushiyama, Kaoru Hirokawa, Shiwori Osada, Teruo Inoue, Noriaki Shimada, and Hikaru Koide

Effect of cerivastatin on proteinuria and urinary podocytes in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 798-802; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.798 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmed F. El-Koraie, Nahid M. Baddour, Ahmed G. Adam, Essam H. El-Kashef, and A. Meguid El Nahas

Cytoskeletal protein expression and regenerative markers in schistosomal nephropathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 803-812; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.803 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosanna Gusmano, Gianluca Caridi, Monica Marini, Francesco Perfumo, Gian Marco Ghiggeri, Giorgio Piaggio, Isabella Ceccherini, and Marco Seri

Glomerulocystic kidney disease in a family
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 813-818; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.813 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefan Graf, Alexander Schischma, Knut E. Eberhardt, Roland Istel, Birgit Stiasny, and Bernd D. Schulze

Intracranial aneurysms and dolichoectasia in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 819-823; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.819 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes Rieger, Thomas Sitter, Marcel Toepfer, Ulrich Linsenmaier, Klaus Jürgen Pfeifer, and Helmut Schiffl

Gadolinium as an alternative contrast agent for diagnostic and interventional angiographic procedures in patients with impaired renal function
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 824-828; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.824 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisbet Brandi, Martin Egfjord, and Klaus Olgaard

Pharmacokinetics of 1,25(OH)₂D₃ and 1(OH)D₃ in normal and uraemic men
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 829-842; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.829 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Guerra, Alain Raynaud, Bernard Beyssen, Jean-Yves Pagny, Marc Sapoval, and Claude Angel

Arterial percutaneous angioplasty in upper limbs with vascular access devices for haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 843-851; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.843 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Massimo Sabbatini, Bruno Minale, Anna Crispo, Antonio Pisani, Annalisa Ragosta, Raffaela Esposito, Antonio Cesaro, Bruno Cianciaruso, and Vittorio E. Andreucci

Insomnia in maintenance haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 852-856; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.852 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gherardo Buccianti, Sara Raselli, Ivano Baragetti, Fabrizia Bamonti, Enzo Corghi, Cristina Novembrino, Cristina Patrosso, Franco M. Maggi, and Alberico L. Catapano

5-methyltetrahydrofolate restores endothelial function in uraemic patients on convective haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 857-864; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.857 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Didier Ducloux, Abdelfatah Aboubakr, Gérard Motte, Gérard Toubin, Véronique Fournier, Jean-Marc Chalopin, Tilman Drüeke, and Ziad A. Massy

Hyperhomocysteinaemia therapy in haemodialysis patients: folinic versus folic acid in combination with vitamin B6 and B12
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 865-870; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.865 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ardesio Floridi, Francesco Antolini, Francesco Galli, Riccardo Maria Fagugli, Emanuela Floridi, and Umberto Buoncristiani

Daily haemodialysis improves indices of protein glycation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 871-878; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.871 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald Cohen, Michael Rudnicki, Sabine Schmaldienst, and Walter H. Hörl

Effect of dialysis on serum/plasma levels of free immunoglobulin light chains in end-stage renal disease patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 879-883; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.879 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Markus S. Gillich, Dirk Heimbach, Georg Schoeneich, Stefan C. Müller, and Hans Ulrich Klehr

Comparison of blood group versus HLA-dependent transplantation and its influence on donor kidney survival
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 884-886; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.884 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miguel A. Gentil, Enrique Luna, Gabriel Rodriguez-Algarra, Antonio Osuna, Miguel González-Molina, Auxiliadora Mazuecos, Juan J. Cubero, and Domingo del Castillo

Incidence of diabetes mellitus requiring insulin treatment after renal transplantation in patients with hepatitis C
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 887-891; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.887 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Soner Duman, Hüseyin Töz, Gülay Asçi, Sibel Alper, Mehmet Özkahya, Idil Ünal, Ali Çelik, Ercan Ok, and Ali Basçi

Successful treatment of post-transplant Kaposi's sarcoma by reduction of immunosuppression
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 892-896; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.892 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Domingo Hernández, Roberto Guerra, Antonio Milena, Armando Torres, Sagrario García, Candelaria García, Pedro Abreu, Antonieta González, Maria Angeles Gómez, Margarita Rufino, José González-Posada, Víctor Lorenzo, and Eduardo Salido

Dietary fish oil does not influence acute rejection rate and graft survival after renal transplantation: a randomized placebo-controlled study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 897-904; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.897 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean Philippe Rerolle, Eric Thervet, Dany Anglicheau, François Desgrandchamps, Dominique Nochy, Anne Janin, Sophie Fornairon, Philippe Passa, Janine Bedrossian, and Christophe Legendre

Long-term renal allograft outcome after simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 905-909; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.905 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Bernhard K. Krämer, Jürgen Preuner, Andreas Ebenburger, Michael Kaiser, Ulrich Bergner, Christoph Eilles, Martin C. Kammerl, Günter A. J. Riegger, and Dietrich E. Birnbaum

Lack of renoprotective effect of theophylline during aortocoronary bypass surgery
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 910-915; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.910 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Preliminary Communications:

Katsushi Koyama, Takeshi Usami, Oki Takeuchi, Kunio Morozumi, and Genjiro Kimura

Efficacy of methylcobalamin on lowering total homocysteine plasma concentrations in haemodialysis patients receiving high-dose folic acid supplementation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 916-922; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.916 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Bart Maes, Michael Oellerich, Jan L. Ceuppens, Victor W. Armstrong, Pieter Evenepoel, Dirk Kuypers, Thierry Messiaen, Maria Shipkova, Eberhard Wieland, and Yves Vanrenterghem

A new acute inflammatory syndrome related to the introduction of mycophenolate mofetil in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 923-926; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.923 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Markus J. Kemper, Guido Laube, Martin Blasius, and Thomas J. Neuhaus

The child with initially refractory skin infection after renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 927-928; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.927 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz:

Alexander Woywodt, Jan Thomas Kielstein, and Hermann Haller

An uncommon cause of metabolic acidosis in a haemodialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 929-930; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.929 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uwe Brümmer, Rodolfo Stanziale, Andrea Toppetti, Roberto Summa, Mario Bonomini, and Tonino D'Andrea

Anuria and cold left leg
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 931-933; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.931 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Ajay K. Sharma, Sivaprasad Sunil, Peter Rowlands, and Ali Bakran

Pseudoaneurysm with severe haematuria in renal allograft after renal biopsy treated by percutaneous embolization
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 934-935; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.934 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Obituaries:

Bengt Lindholm and Anders Alvestrand

Jonas Bergström (1929–2001)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 936-938; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.936 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Evert J. Dorhout Mees and Charles Tomson

Fluid restriction in dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 939; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.939 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abdulla K. Salahudeen and Roland M. Schaefer

High dose of bolus iron vs low dose of weekly infusion: bolusing high dose, a recipe for iron toxicity?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 939-940; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.939-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Haydar Ali Tasdemir, Alisan Yildiran, Ismail Islek, Recep Sancak, and Cengiz Dilber

Haemoperfusion may be useful in phenprobamate and polypharmacy intoxication of paediatric patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 941; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.941 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yousuf Karim and Amina Masood

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome following mumps, measles, and rubella vaccination
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 941-942; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.941-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Phillip Hampton, Kenneth A. Graham, Mairi Millar, Sarah McCluskey, and Timothy H. J. Goodship

Anodipsia nervosa a variant of anorexia in patients with end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 942-943; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.942 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucile Mercadal, Laurent Sutton, Nicole Casadevall, Corinne Bagnis, and Claude Jacobs

Immunological reaction against erythropoietin causing red-cell aplasia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 943; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.943 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Detlef H. Krieter and Bernard Canaud

Anaphylactic reaction during haemodialysis on AN69 membrane in a patient receiving angiotensin II receptor antagonist
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 943-944; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.943-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Sing Leung Lui and Wai Kei Lo

Symptomatic hypoglycaemia during haemodialysis in a non-diabetic patient with acute hepatitis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 944-945; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.944 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin G. V. Perez, Fred Husserl, and Jamie Ross

Intraperitoneal metoclopramide causing a movement disorder
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 945; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.945 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian W. Mall, Andreas W. Philipp, Miriam Zimmerling, and Rolf Büttemeyer

Desmoid tumours following long-term Tenckhoff peritoneal dialysis catheters
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 945-946; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.945-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

Announcements
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 947-949; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.5.947 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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