Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Tony Raine Memorial Lecture:

Kerstin Amann and Eberhard Ritz

Microvascular disease—the Cinderella of uraemic heart disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1493-1503; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1493 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Comments:

Raymond C. Harris

Macula densa signalling—a potential role of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1504-1506; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1504 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mohamed R. Daha and Cees van Kooten

Is there a role for locally produced complement in renal disease?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1506-1509; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1506 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephan R. Orth, Hiroaki Ogata, and Eberhard Ritz

Smoking and the kidney
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1509-1511; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1509 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Felix J. Frey and Paolo Ferrari

Pastis and hypertension—what is the molecular basis?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1512-1514; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1512 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Friedrich C. Luft

Hypertensive nephrosclerosis–a cause of end-stage renal disease?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1515-1517; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1515 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Raymond Vanholder, Mehmet S. Sever, Ekrem Erek, and Norbert Lameire

Acute renal failure related to the crush syndrome: towards an era of seismo-nephrology?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1517-1521; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1517 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George A. Kaysen

Malnutrition and the acute-phase reaction in dialysis patients—how to measure and how to distinguish
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1521-1524; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1521 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Invited Comment:

Waqar Ayub and Simon Fletcher

End-stage renal disease and erectile dysfunction. Is there any hope?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1525-1528; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1525 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Francesco Locatelli, Fernando Valderrábano, Nicholas Hoenich, Jurgen Bommer, Karel Leunissen, and Vincenzo Cambi

The management of chronic renal insufficiency in the conservative phase
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1529-1534; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1529 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Frank Strutz, Malte Heeg, Tobias Kochsiek, Gesa Siemers, Michael Zeisberg, and Gerhard A. Müller

Effects of pentoxifylline, pentifylline and -interferon on proliferation, differentiation, and matrix synthesis of human renal fibroblasts
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1535-1546; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1535 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eva K. M. Löwenborg, Georg Jaremko, and Ulla B. Berg

Glomerular function and morphology in puromycin aminonucleoside nephropathy in rats
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1547-1555; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1547 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luis C. F. Tajra, Xavier Martin, Jacqueline Margonari, Nelly Blanc-Brunat, Michio Ishibashi, Geneviève Vivier, Jean P. Steghens, Hiroto Kawashima, Masayuki Miyasaka, Jean-M. Dubernard, and Jean-P. Revillard

Antibody-induced modulation of the leukocyte CD11b integrin prevents mild but not major renal ischaemic injury
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1556-1561; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1556 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dirk K. Ysebaert, Kathleen E. De Greef, Sven R. Vercauteren, Manuela Ghielli, Gert A. Verpooten, Erik J. Eyskens, and Marc E. De Broe

Identification and kinetics of leukocytes after severe ischaemia/reperfusion renal injury
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1562-1574; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1562 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Lo Giudice, Laurence Dubourg, Aoumeur Hadj-Aïssa, Marie-Hélène Saïd, Olivier Claris, Philippe Audra, Xavier Martin, and Pierre Cochat

Renal function of children exposed to cyclosporin in utero
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1575-1579; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1575 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anna Glauser, Werner Hochreiter, Philippe Jaeger, and Bernhard Hess

Determinants of urinary excretion of Tamm–Horsfall protein in non-selected kidney stone formers and healthy subjects
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1580-1587; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1580 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Young Ok Kim, Chul Woo Yang, Sun Ae Yoon, Ho Cheol Song, Yong Soo Kim, Suk Young Kim, Euy Jin Choi, Yoon Sik Chang, and Byung Kee Bang

Intestinal protein loss in patients with haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1588-1592; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1588 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil Hedger, Judith Stevens, Nick Drey, Sarah Walker, and Paul Roderick

Incidence and outcome of pauci-immune rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in Wessex, UK: a 10-year retrospective study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1593-1599; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1593 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maurizio Li Vecchi, Antonella Radice, Fabrizio Renda, Giuseppe Mulé, and Renato A. Sinico

Anti-laminin auto antibodies in ANCA-associated vasculitis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1600-1603; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1600 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chong Woo Yoo, Mi-Kyung Kim, and Hyun Soon Lee

Predictors of renal outcome in diffuse proliferative lupus nephropathy: data from repeat renal biopsy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1604-1608; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1604 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruth Østerby, Hans-Jacob Bangstad, and Susanne Rudberg

Follow-up study of glomerular dimensions and cortical interstitium in microalbuminuric type 1 diabetic patients with or without antihypertensive treatment
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1609-1616; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1609 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sung-Kyu Ha, Seung Yong Lee, Hong Su Park, Jae Ho Shin, Seung Jung Kim, Do Hun Kim, Kyung Rae Kim, Ho Yung Lee, and Dae Suk Han

ACE DD genotype is more susceptible than ACE II and ID genotypes to the antiproteinuric effect of ACE inhibitors in patients with proteinuric non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1617-1623; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1617 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Stenvinkel, Bengt Lindholm, Mikael Heimbürger, and Olof Heimbürger

Elevated serum levels of soluble adhesion molecules predict death in pre-dialysis patients: association with malnutrition, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1624-1630; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1624 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philippe Leitienne, Denis Fouque, Dominique Rigal, Patrice Adeleine, Marie-Christine Trzeciak, and Maurice Laville

Heparins and blood polymorphonuclear stimulation in haemodialysis: an expansion of the biocompatibility concept
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1631-1637; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1631 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karine Gastaldello, Cecile Husson, Robert Wens, Jean-Louis Vanherweghem, and Christian Tielemans

Role of complement and platelet-activating factor in the stimulation of phagocytosis and reactive oxygen species production during haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1638-1646; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1638 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank Kee, Chris C. Patterson, E. Ann Wilson, Janice M. McConnell, Seana M. Wheeler, and John D. Watson

Stewardship or clinical freedom? Variations in dialysis decision making
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1647-1657; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1647 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emanuela de Pascale, Mauro Giordano, Matilde Carone, Corrado Pluvio, Maria Pluvio, Tullio Criscuolo, Lorena Infantone, and Pietro Castellino

Impaired glucose oxidation and glucose-induced thermogenesis in renal transplant recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1658-1662; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1658 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rudolf P. Wüthrich, Snjezana Cicvara, Christa Booy, Urs Widmer, and Ulrich Binswanger

The 825C/T polymorphism of the G-protein subunit ß3 does not influence blood pressure and renal function in kidney transplant recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1663-1666; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1663 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard N. Saunders, Rosemary Elwell, Gavin J. Murphy, Terry Horsburgh, Susan J. Carr, and Michael L. Nicholson

Workload generated by a living donor programme for renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1667-1672; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1667 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Preliminary Reports:

Diego Cantarovich, Magali Giral-Classe, Maryvonne Hourmant, Jacques Dantal, Gilles Blancho, Lydie Lerat, Anne Moreau, and Jean-Paul Soulillou

Prevention of acute rejection with antithymocyte globulin, avoiding corticosteroids, and delaying cyclosporin after renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1673-1676; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1673 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Technical Note:

Albert Fournier and Jean Michel Achard

Mnemotechnical note on the use of Cockcroft creatinine clearance formula for the validation of a 24-h urine collection
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1677-1678; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1677 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Mark Haas, Srinivasan Rajaraman, Tejinder Ahuja, Martin Kittaka, and Tito Cavallo

Fibrillary/immunotactoid glomerulonephritis in HIV-positive patients: a report of three cases
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1679-1683; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1679 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ping-Nam Wong, Siu-Ka Mak, Kin-Yee Lo, Gensy M. W. Tong, and Andrew K. M. Wong

Acute tubular necrosis in a patient with Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia and hyperviscosity syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1684-1687; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1684 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anselm Bönte, Willibald Schröder, Erick Denamur, and Uwe Querfeld

Absent pubertal development in a child with chronic renal failure: the case of Frasier syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1688-1690; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1688 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mysore K. Phanish, George Kallarackal, Rommel Ravanan, Tom M. Lawson, and Keshwar Baboolal

Tumoral calcinosis associated with pyrexia and systemic inflammatory response in a haemodialysis patient: successful treatment using intravenous pamidronate
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1691-1693; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1691 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Markus J. Kemper, Rainer Ganschow, Knut Helmke, and Dirk E. Muller-Wiefel

The child with haematuria and dysphagia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1694-1695; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1694 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jaume Almirall, Inmaculada Mendez, Ricard Comet, and Xavier Andreu

Nephrotic syndrome after renal percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1696-1699; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1696 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Raúl Martínez-Lázaro and Anabel Cortés-Blanco

Cake kidney drained by single ureter: MAG3 renogram for diagnosis and function follow-up
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1700-1701; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1700 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renal Ultrasonography Lesson:

Anna-Maria Nahm and Eberhard Ritz

The simple renal cyst
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1702-1704; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1702 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz for the beginner:

J. Bommer

Unexplained hypertension in a previously normotensive dialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1705-1706; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1705 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

D. Docci, A. M. Cremonini, M. T. Nasi, L. Baldrati, C. Capponcini, A. Giudicissi, L. Neri, C. Feletti, and B. F. Palmer

Hyponatraemia with natriuresis in neurosurgical patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1707-1708; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1707 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Gross and Boriana Deliyska

Association of Bartter's syndrome with vasculitis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1708; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1708 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W. K. Lagrand, C. A. Visser, C. E. Hack, H. W. M. Niessen, R. Nijmeijer, W. König, and C. Wanner

C-reactive protein and cardiovascular disease: linked by complement?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1709-1710; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1709 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Afshin Farzaneh-Far and K. Amann

Morphology of coronary atherosclerotic lesions in patients with end-stage renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1710; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1710 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Markus Kosch, Christian August, Martin Hausberg, Klaus Kisters, Gert Gabriels, Fritz Matzkies, and Roland M. Schaefer

Focal sclerosis with tip lesions secondary to polycythaemia vera
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1710-1711; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1710-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Won Kim, Sang Yong Lee, Soo Wan Kim, Jae Yong Kwak, Sung Kyew Kang, and Sung Kwang Park

Renal infarction in a patient with von Willebrand disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1711-1713; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1711 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Grigorij Salnik, Christiane Poehls, Götz Krupp, and Friedrich C. Luft

Elevating nephrology to a ‘stenting’ specialty
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1713; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1713 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Avi Livneh, Shmuel Shtrasburg, and Pnina Langevitz

Regression of nephrotic syndrome in amyloidosis of familial Mediterranean fever following colchicine treatment
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1713-1714; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1713-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank Merkel and Manfred Weber

Successful use of cyclosporin A in progressive anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1714-1715; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1714 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. A. Coward, M. Garrues, L. R. Solomon, and S. P. Gibson

Hepatitis C and holiday dialysis. A postal survey of UK renal units
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1715; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1715 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassane Izzedine, Raymond Azar, Khalid Zahiri, Jacques Rottembourg, and Gilbert Deray

Haematological toxicity of midodrine in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1715-1716; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1715-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yücel Üstündag, Banu Bilezikçi, Sedat Boyacioglu, Mansur Kayatas, and Nurhan Ödemir

The utility of AST/ALT ratio as a non-invasive demonstration of the degree of liver fibrosis in chronic HCV patients on long-term haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1716-1717; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1716 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Petrarulo and Vincenzo Giancaspro

Intravenous ascorbic acid in haemodialysis patients with functional iron deficiency
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1717-1718; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1717 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. J. Jaroszynski and A. Ksiazek

Changing relationships between serum IL-1, IL-6, and TNF- and dynamic tests of parathyroid gland function in haemodialysis patients with severe hyperparathyroidism in response to calcitriol therapy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1718-1719; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1718 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jon Stratton, Alan Macdonald, and Ken Farrington

Successful treatment of MRSA endocarditis in a haemodialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1719-1720; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1719 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D. K. Agarwal, A. R. Mehta, A. P. Sharma, S. Sural, Alok Kumar, B. Mehta, Amit Gupta, R. K. Sharma, and R. K. Gupta

Coinfection with leprosy and tuberculosis in a renal transplant recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1720-1721; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1720 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tadashi Ideura, Takehiko Muramatsu, Makoto Higuchi, Naoki Tachibana, Kazuhiko Hora, and Kendo Kiyosawa

Tacrolimus/itraconazole interactions: a case report of ABO-incompatible living-related renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1721-1723; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1721 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandeep Chopra, Rajan Isaacs, Kim Mammen, and Basant Pawar

Renal transplantation in a patient with Barraquer-Simons disease and mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis type II
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 1723-1724; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.10.1723 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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