Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Michael S. Goligorsky

Whispers and shouts in the pathogenesis of acute renal ischaemia
NDT Advance Access published on June 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 261-266; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh182 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gianni Cappelli, Ciro Tetta, and Bernard Canaud

Is biofilm a cause of silent chronic inflammation in haemodialysis patients? A fascinating working hypothesis
NDT Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 266-270; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh571 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Davies

Are PD patients with or without residual renal function qualitatively different—or are they simply at different stages of the continuum of progressive uraemia?
NDT Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 270-272; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh667 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Personal Opinions:

Laurent Toubiana, Jean-Baptiste Richard, and Paul Landais

Geographical information system for end-stage renal disease: SIGNe, an aid to public health decision making
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 273-277; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh621 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael V. Rocco, Alfred K. Cheung, Tom Greene, and Garabed Eknoyan for the Hemodialysis Study Group

The HEMO Study: applicability and generalizability
NDT Advance Access published on December 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 278-284; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh304 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Francesco Locatelli, Umberto Buoncristiani, Bernard Canaud, Hans Köhler, Thierry Petitclerc, and Pietro Zucchelli

Dialysis dose and frequency
NDT Advance Access published on December 14, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 285-296; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh550 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephrology News:

Jochen H. H. Ehrich, Anita Amina El Gendi, Alfred Drukker, Jan Janda, Constantinos Stefanidis, Kate Verrier-Jones, Jacqueline Collier, and Manuel Katz

Demography of paediatric renal care in Europe: organization and delivery
NDT Advance Access published on June 1, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 297-305; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh299 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Barbara Lewko, Ewa Bryl, Jacek M. Witkowski, Elzbieta Latawiec, Stefan Angielski, and Jan Stepinski

Mechanical stress and glucose concentration modulate glucose transport in cultured rat podocytes
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 306-311; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh612 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sabine C. Wolf, Gabriele Sauter, Hans-Peter Rodemann, Teut Risler, and Bernhard R. Brehm

Influence of growth factors on the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells isolated from subtotally nephrectomized rats after endothelin or angiotensin II antagonism
NDT Advance Access published on December 7, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 312-318; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh606 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jens Gaedeke, Torsten Boehler, Klemens Budde, Hans-H. Neumayer, and Harm Peters

Glomerular activin A overexpression is linked to fibrosis in anti-Thy1 glomerulonephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 319-328; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh653 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Balazs Antus, Shanying Liu, Yousheng Yao, Hequn Zou, Erwei Song, Jens Lutz, and Uwe Heemann

Effects of progesterone and selective oestrogen receptor modulators on chronic allograft nephropathy in rats
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 329-335; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh602 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. M. Löwik, F. A. Hol, E. J. Steenbergen, J. F. M. Wetzels, and L. P. W. J. van den Heuvel

Mitochondrial tRNA^Leu(UUR) mutation in a patient with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
NDT Advance Access published on December 7, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 336-341; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh546 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hyun Soon Lee, Myung Suk Lee, Sa Min Lee, Sang Yun Lee, Eun Sun Lee, Eun Young Lee, So Yeon Park, Jin Suk Han, Sungkwon Kim, and Jung Sang Lee

Histological grading of IgA nephropathy predicting renal outcome: revisiting H. S. Lee's glomerular grading system
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 342-348; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh633 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bertrand Dussol, Julie Moussi-Frances, Sophie Morange, Claude Somma-Delpero, Olivier Mundler, and Yvon Berland

A randomized trial of furosemide vs hydrochlorothiazide in patients with chronic renal failure and hypertension
NDT Advance Access published on December 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 349-353; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh650 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Max Bell, Eva Liljestam, Fredrik Granath, Jessica Fryckstedt, Anders Ekbom, and Claes-Roland Martling

Optimal follow-up time after continuous renal replacement therapy in actual renal failure patients stratified with the RIFLE criteria
NDT Advance Access published on December 14, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 354-360; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh581 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mario Bonomini, Vittorio Sirolli, Gabriele Merciaro, Teresa Antidormi, Lorenzo Di Liberato, Uwe Brummer, Marco Papponetti, Paolo Cappelli, Patrizia Di Gregorio, and Arduino Arduini

Red blood cells may contribute to hypercoagulability in uraemia via enhanced surface exposure of phosphatidylserine
NDT Advance Access published on December 14, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 361-366; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh622 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Piotr Trzonkowski, Alicja Debska-Slizien, Ewa Szmit, Jolanta Mysliwska, Katarzyna Szymanska, Lukasz Hak, Andrzej Mysliwski, and Boleslaw Rutkowski

Long-term therapy with recombinant human erythropoietin increases CD8⁺ T-cell apoptosis in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on December 7, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 367-376; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh589 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Osamu Sasaki, Hajime Nakahama, Satoko Nakamura, Fumiki Yoshihara, Takashi Inenaga, Masayoshi Yoshii, Shigeru Kohno, and Yuhei Kawano

Orthostatic hypotension at the introductory phase of haemodialysis predicts all-cause mortality
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 377-381; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh614 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Filippo Aucella, Maurizio Margaglione, Elvira Grandone, Mimmo Vigilante, Giuseppe Gatta, Mauro Forcella, Maria Ktena, Alva De Min, Giovanna Salatino, Deni Aldo Procaccini, Carmine Stallone, and Loreto Gesualdo The Genetic Polymorphisms in Dialysis Study Group.

The C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene mutation does not influence cardiovascular risk in the dialysis population: results of a multicentre prospective study
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 382-386; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh620 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Panduranga S. Rao, Douglas E. Schaubel, and Rajiv Saran

Impact of graft failure on patient survival on dialysis: a comparison of transplant-naïve and post-graft failure mortality rates
NDT Advance Access published on December 7, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 387-391; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh595 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Smita Gunda, Mark Thomas, and Steve Smith

National survey of palliative care in end-stage renal disease in the UK
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 392-395; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh619 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angela Yee-Moon Wang, Jean Woo, Mei Wang, Mandy Man-Mei Sea, John E. Sanderson, Siu-Fai Lui, and Philip Kam-Tao Li

Important differentiation of factors that predict outcome in peritoneal dialysis patients with different degrees of residual renal function
NDT Advance Access published on June 8, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 396-403; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh331 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomasz Stompór, Andrzej Krasniak, Wladyslaw Sulowicz, Aldona Dembinska-Kiec, Katarzyna Janda, Katarzyna Wójcik, Barbara Tabor, Martyna E. Kowalczyk-Michalek, Anna Zdzienicka, and Eve Janusz-Grzybowska

Changes in common carotid artery intima-media thickness over 1 year in patients on peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on December 23, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 404-412; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh597 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Monica Hagen Voytovich, Cathrine Simonsen, Trond Jenssen, Jøran Hjelmesæth, Anders Åsberg, and Anders Hartmann

Short-term treatment with rosiglitazone improves glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and endothelial function in renal transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on December 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 413-418; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh641 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Laureane Mittaz, Sharon Ricardo, Gemma Martinez, Ismail Kola, Darren J. Kelly, Melissa H. Little, Paul J. Hertzog, and Melanie A. Pritchard

Neonatal calyceal dilation and renal fibrosis resulting from loss of Adamts-1 in mouse kidney is due to a developmental dysgenesis
NDT Advance Access published on December 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 419-423; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh603 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Preliminary Communications:

Satoshi Kurihara, Yoshinari Tsuruta, and Tadao Akizawa

Effect of MCI-196 (colestilan) as a phosphate binder on hyperphosphataemia in haemodialysis patients: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, short-term trial
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 424-430; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh632 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Bruno Vogt

Urate oxidase (rasburicase) for treatment of severe tophaceous gout
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 431-433; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh629 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atsushi Komatsuda, Nobuki Maki, Hideki Wakui, Hiroshi Ohtani, Takashi Hatakeyama, Tadashi Yasuda, Yasushi Nakamoto, Hirokazu Imai, and Ken-ichi Sawada

Development of systemic -light chain amyloidosis in a patient with -heavy chain deposition disease during long-term follow-up
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 434-437; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh545 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Matignon, Olivier Lidove, Emmanuel Dupuis, Francine Walker, Sophie Abgrall, and Thomas Papo

A lupus-like glomerulonephritis following acute HIV-1 seroconversion in an African woman
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 438-440; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh631 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vin-Cent Wu, Shuei-Liong Lin, Shu-Meng Lin, and Cheng-Chung Fang

Treatment of baclofen overdose by haemodialysis: a pharmacokinetic study
NDT Advance Access published on December 22, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 441-443; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh297 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Haase, Rinaldo Bellomo, Jens Rocktaeschel, Sabine Ziemer, Holger Kiesewetter, Stanislao Morgera, and Hans-H. Neumayer

Use of fondaparinux (ARIXTRA®) in a dialysis patient with symptomatic heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia type II
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 444-446; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh544 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Felicia Li-Sher Tan, Dale L. S. K. Loh, and K. Prabhakaran

Dengue haemorrhagic fever after living donor renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 447-448; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh601 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mehmet Erikoglu, Sakir Tavli, and Suleyman Turk

Fournier's gangrene after renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 449-450; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh624 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Jacques Bernheim, Eleanora Plotkin, Joelle Bernheim, and Ze'ev Korzets

It looks like, it smells like but is it just pre-eclampsia?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 451-452; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh512 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Haller, Angelika Henzler-Le Boulanger, Jörn Oliver Sass, Matthias Brandis, and Lothar Bernd Zimmerhackl

Successful extracorporeal treatment of a male with hyperammonaemic coma
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 453-455; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh495 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz:

Iris Massarenti, Giorgina Piccoli, Salvatore Bontempo, Evelina Gollo, Giuseppe Benedetto, Gianni Botta, Elisabetta Mezza, and Tullia Todros

Abdominal pain and hypertension in the third trimester of pregnancy. Is pre-eclampsia the only explanation?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 457-459; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh308 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Chiz-Tzung Chang, Cheng-Chieh Hung, Koon-Kwan Ng, and Tzung-Hai Yen

Nutcracker syndrome and left unilateral haematuria
NDT Advance Access published on August 24, 2004
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 460-461; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh482 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark A. Little, Michelle Cafferky, Shyamsundar Menon, and Ken Farrington

Dialysis amyloid: the bottom line
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 462-463; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh450 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Omer Toprak and Mustafa Cirit

Investigating the volume status before contrast nephropathy studies
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 464; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh609 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luciano F. Drager, Lúcia Andrade, and Antônio Carlos Seguro

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 464-466; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh610 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

M. Ibernon, F. Moreso, L. Carreras, M. Carrera, T. Serrano, I. Rama, O. Bestard, J. Torras, R. Poveda, and J. M. Grinyó

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with severe large artery branch involvement
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 467-468; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh596 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michel Daudon, Bernard Lacour, and Paul Jungers

High prevalence of uric acid calculi in diabetic stone formers
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 468-469; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh594 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karolina Kedzierska, Joanna Bober, Kazimierz Ciechanowski, Edyta Golembiewska, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Iwona Nocen, Grazyna Dutkiewicz, and Dariusz Chlubek

Trace elements modify the activity of sodium transporting systems in erythrocyte membrane in patients with essential hypertension–preliminary study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 469-471; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh613 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manfred Hauben and Lester Reich

Case reports of dobutamine-induced myoclonia in severe renal failure: potential of emerging pharmacovigilance technologies
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 471-472; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh549 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilse J. M. Nijhuis, Carin M. L. van Dael, and Margreet T. E. Bink-Boelkens

DC cardioversion during continuous veno-venous haemofiltration
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 472; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh649 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Georgios Vergoulas, Theodoros Eleftheriadis, Aphroditi Avdelidou, Konstantinos Ioannou, Gregorios Miserlis, Fillio Solonaki, Andreas Papagiannis, and Dimitrios Takoudas

Body dysmorphic disorder due to hirsutism in a patient treated with cyclosporin
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 473; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh635 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thierry Krummel, Laura Parvez-Braun, Luc Frantzen, Henri Lalanne, Luc Marcellin, Thierry Hannedouche, and Bruno Moulin

Tenofovir-induced acute renal failure in an HIV patient with normal renal function
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 473-474; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh640 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin Dreyer and Coralie Bingham

Right atrial thrombus as a complication of a temporary haemodialysis catheter—a potentially avoidable complication
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 474-475; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh626 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

Announcements
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