Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Tilman Drüeke and Mandy Sketch

NDT Online
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 447; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.447 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shuji Arima and Sadayoshi Ito

Angiotensin II type 2 receptors in the kidney: evidence for endothelial-cell-mediated renal vasodilatation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 448-451; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.448 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Friedrich C. Luft

STOPPING at the CAPPP of good HOPE
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 451-452; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.451 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes F. E. Mann

Should the results of the HOPE study affect nephrological practice?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 453-454; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.453 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carmine Zoccali

Cardiovascular risk in uraemic patients—is it fully explained by classical risk factors?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 454-457; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.454 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sabina De Geest and Philip Moons

The patient's appraisal of side-effects: the blind spot in quality-of-life assessments in transplant recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 457-459; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.457 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Invited Comments:

Neil J. Schroeder and John Cunningham

What's new in vitamin D for the nephrologist?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 460-466; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.460 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Bruno Poirier, Marilyne Lannaud-Bournoville, Marc Conti, Raymond Bazin, Odile Michel, Jean Bariéty, Jacques Chevalier, and Isaac Myara

Oxidative stress occurs in absence of hyperglycaemia and inflammation in the onset of kidney lesions in normotensive obese rats
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 467-476; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.467 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diana M. Iglesias, Dolores Telleria, Miguel Viribay, Mariana Herrera, Viviana A. Bernath, Alberto R. Kornblihtt, Rodolfo S. Martin, and José Luis San Millán

A novel frameshift mutation (2436insT) produces an immediate stop codon in the autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 2 (PKD2) gene
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 477-480; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.477 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ola Samuelsson, Per-Ola Attman, Rutger Larsson, Henrik Mulec, Lars Rymo, Lars Weiss, and Anne Ricksten

Angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene polymorphism in non-diabetic renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 481-486; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.481 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger A. Rodby, Richard D. Rohde, William R. Clarke, Lawrence G. Hunsicker, Deborah A. Anzalone, Robert C. Atkins, Eberhard Ritz, and Edmund J. Lewis

The Irbesartan Type II Diabetic Nephropathy Trial: study design and baseline patient characteristics
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 487-497; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.487 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giovanni Monteleone, Giuseppe Cristina, Tiziana Parrello, Susanna Morano, Livia Biancone, Patrizia Pietravalle, Elisabetta Sagratella, Patrizia Doldo, Francesco Luzza, Umberto Di Mario, and Francesco Pallone

Altered IgG₄ renal clearance in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Evidence for a subclinical impairment of protein charge renal selectivity
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 498-501; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.498 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gema Fernández-Fresnedo, María Angeles Ramos, Maria Consuelo González-Pardo, Angel Luis Martín de Francisco, Marcos López-Hoyos, and Manuel Arias

B lymphopenia in uraemia is related to an accelerated in vitro apoptosis and dysregulation of Bcl-2
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 502-510; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.502 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fabrice Vaussenat, Bernard Canaud, Jean-Yves Bosc, Martine Leblanc, Hélène Leray-Moragues, and Laurie J. Garred

Intradialytic glucose infusion increases polysulphone membrane permeability and post-dilutional haemodiafiltration performances
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 511-516; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.511 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin C. Geddes, Jamie Traynor, David Walbaum, Jonathan G. Fox, and Robert A. Mactier

A new method of post-dialysis blood urea sampling: the `stop dialysate flow' method
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 517-523; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.517 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margret Arnadottir, Vilmundur Gudnason, and Björn Hultberg

Treatment with different doses of folic acid in haemodialysis patients: effects on folate distribution and aminothiol concentrations
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 524-528; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.524 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katsushige Abe, Yoshiyuki Ozono, Masanobu Miyazaki, Takehiko Koji, Kei Shioshita, Akira Furusu, Shoko Tsukasaki, Fukuzo Matsuya, Nobuko Hosokawa, Takashi Harada, Takashi Taguchi, Kazuhiro Nagata, and Shigeru Kohno

Interstitial expression of heat shock protein 47 and -smooth muscle actin in renal allograft failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 529-535; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.529 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Report:

Anne-Paule Gimenez-Roqueplo, Elisabeth Tomkiewicz, Agnès La Batide-Alanore, Isabelle Moreau, Jean-François Paul, Alain Raynaud, and Pierre-François Plouin

Stent treatment for pseudocoarctation and refractory hypertension in an elderly patient with Takayasu's arteritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 536-538; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.536 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Donald Richardson, Judith Foster, Alex M. Davison, and Henry C. Irving

Parvus tardus waveform suggesting renal artery stenosis—remember the more proximal stenosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 539-543; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.539 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexander Woywodt, Christine Stabroth, Kathrin Kadow, Götz Krupp, and Friedrich C. Luft

The patient with low back pain and acute oliguric renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 544-546; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.544 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Charles J. Diskin, Thomas J. Stokes, Linda M. Dansby, Thomas B. Carter, Lautrec Radcliff, and David Monteil

Diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis in a patient who presented with polycystic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 547-548; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.547 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renal Ultrasonography Lesson:

Anna-Maria Nahm and Eberhard Ritz

Errors in ultrasonographic measurements of the kidney
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 549-550; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.549 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz for the Beginner:

M. van Buren

A stony history
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 551-553; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.551 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

J. P. Kooman, E. J. M. Hendriks, F. M. van den Sande, and K. M. L. Leumissen

Dialysate sodium concentration and blood pressure control in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 554; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.554 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Wright, E. J. Lindley, D. Swales, A. M. Brownjohn, J. H. Turney, E. J. Will, and G. Woodrow

Consistent timing of the post-dialysis blood sample is necessary to prevent undertreatment in single needle dialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 554-555; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.4.554-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Glenn M. Chertow, Steven K. Burke, Maureen A. Dillon, and Eduardo Slatopolsky

Long-term effects of sevelamer hydrochloride on the calcium x phosphate product and lipid profile of haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 559. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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