Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Alexandre Persu and Olivier Devuyst

Transepithelial chloride secretion and cystogenesis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 747-750; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.747 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Faulde, Dirck Sobe, Peter Kimmig, and Jerrold Scharninghausen

Renal failure and hantavirus infection in Europe
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 751-753; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.751 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Keerti V. Shah

Human polyomavirus BKV and renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 754-755; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.754 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter J. Blankestijn, Gerry Ligtenberg, Inge H. H. T. Klein, and Hein A. Koomans

Sympathetic overactivity in renal failure controlled by ACE inhibition: clinical significance
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 755-758; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.755 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Zolk and Michael Böhm

The role of the cardiac endothelin system in heart failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 758-760; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.758 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rafael Pérez-García and Pat O Cinio Rodríguez-Benítez

Why and how to monitor bacterial contamination of dialysate?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 760-764; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.760 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Invited Comment:

Horst Zebe

Atrial fibrillation in dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 765-768; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.765 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dialysis and Transplantation News:

Saiyid Ali Jaffar Naqvi

Nephrology services in Pakistan
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 769-771; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.769 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Yasuhiko Nishikawa, Ryujiro Shibata, Yoshiyuki Ozono, Hiroshi Ichinose, Masanobu Miyazaki, Takashi Harada, and Shigeru Kohno

Streptococcal M protein enhances TGF-ß production and increases surface IgA-positive B cells in vitro in IgA nephropathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 772-777; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.772 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roberta Oleggini, Luca Musante, Stefania Menoni, Gerardo Botti, Marco Di Duca, Michela Prudenziati, Alba Carrea, Roberto Ravazzolo, and Gian Marco Ghiggeri

Characterization of a DNA binding site that mediates the stimulatory effect of cyclosporin-A on type III collagen expression in renal cells
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 778-785; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.778 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin C. Kammerl, Daniela Grimm, Caroline Nabel, Frank Schweda, Matthias Bach, Sabine Fredersdorf, Harald Piehler, Stephan R. Holmer, Günter A. J. Riegger, Eckhard P. Kromer, and Bernhard K. Krämer

Effects of growth hormone on renal renin gene expression in normal rats and rats with myocardial infarction
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 786-790; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.786 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Donohoe, Aisling C. McMahon, Omal V. Walgama, Federica Bertaso, Mark E. C. Dockrell, Hilary A. Cramp, Adrian M. Mullen, Michael J. Shattock, Bruce M. Hendry, and Andrew F. James

L-type calcium current of isolated rat cardiac myocytes in experimental uraemia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 791-798; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.791 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroshi Kikuchi, Hiroshi Kawachi, Yumi Ito, Katsuyuki Matsui, Hitonari Nosaka, Akihiko Saito, Michiaki Orikasa, Masaaki Arakawa, and Fujio Shimizu

Severe proteinuria, sustained for 6 months, induces tubular epithelial cell injury and cell infiltration in rats but not progressive interstitial fibrosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 799-810; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.799 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takami Arai, Kengo Morimoto, Megumi Oka, Tomoyuki Hikita, Kentaro Arai, Kiyoshi Umezawa, Mitsumasa Nagase, and Tatsuo Yamamoto

Aminoguanidine induces haematuria of non-glomerular origin in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 811-817; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.811 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sabine Kroiss, Kirsten Huck, Silke Berthold, Franz Rüschendorf, Francesco Scolari, Gianluca Caridi, Gian Marco Ghiggeri, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, and Arno Fuchshuber

Evidence of further genetic heterogeneity in autosomal dominant medullary cystic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 818-821; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.818 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodo O. von Vigier, Anita C. Truttmann, Karin Zindler-Schmocker, Alberto Bettinelli, Carmen Casaulta Aebischer, Bendicht Wermuth, and Mario G. Bianchetti

Aminoglycosides and renal magnesium homeostasis in humans
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 822-826; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.822 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Beat Frauchiger, Patrick Nussbaumer, Markus Hugentobler, and Daniel Staub

Duplex sonographic registration of age and diabetes-related loss of renal vasodilatory response to nitroglycerine
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 827-832; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.827 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dario Roccatello, Michela Ferro, Giulio Cesano, Daniela Rossi, Silvia Berutti, Mario Salomone, Giuseppe Piccoli, and Luigi Massimino Sena

Steroid and cyclophosphamide in IgA nephropathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 833-835; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.833 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marjan A. van Dijk, Martijn H. Breuning, Dorien J. M. Peters, and Peter C. Chang

The ACE insertion/deletion polymorphism has no influence on progression of renal function loss in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 836-839; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.836 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helmut Schiffl, Rainald Fischer, Susanne M. Lang, and Eugen Mangel

Clinical manifestations of AB-amyloidosis: effects of biocompatibility and flux
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 840-845; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.840 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adji Widjaja, Jan T. Kielstein, Rüdiger Horn, Alexander von zur Mühlen, Volker Kliem, and Georg Brabant

Free serum leptin but not bound leptin concentrations are elevated in patients with end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 846-850; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.846 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kazuhiro Oishi, Yoshio Nagake, Hiroko Yamasaki, Shinji Fukuda, Haruo Ichikawa, Kosuke Ota, and Hirofumi Makino

The significance of serum homocysteine levels in diabetic patients on haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 851-855; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.851 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pedro Iglesias, Rafael Selgas, Javier Méndez, María José Fernández-Reyes, María Auxiliadora Bajo, Abelardo Aguilera, and Juan José Díez

Short-term recombinant human growth hormone therapy does not modify growth hormone, thyrotropin and prolactin responses to thyrotropin-releasing hormone in adult dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 856-861; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.856 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graham Woodrow, Brian Oldroyd, Gillian Stables, Jill Gibson, John H. Turney, and Aleck M. Brownjohn

Effects of icodextrin in automated peritoneal dialysis on blood pressure and bioelectrical impedance analysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 862-866; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.862 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guido Filler, Ines Neuschulz, Ilka Vollmer, Peter Amendt, and Berthold Hocher

Tacrolimus reversibly reduces insulin secretion in paediatric renal transplant recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 867-871; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.867 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Hideaki Yamabe, Hiroshi Osawa, Mitsuaki Kaizuka, Satoru Tsunoda, Ken-ichi Shirato, Fumiko Tateyama, and Ken Okumura

Platelet-derived growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, and interferon increase type IV collagen production in human fetal mesangial cells via a transforming growth factor-ß-dependent mechanism
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 872-876; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.872 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandro Mazzaferro, Silvana Chicca, Marzia Pasquali, Francesco Zaraca, Paola Ballanti, Franco Taggi, Giorgio Coen, Giulio Alberto Cinotti, and Manlio Carboni

Changes in bone turnover after parathyroidectomy in dialysis patients: role of calcitriol administration
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 877-882; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.877 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Talia Weinstein, Avry Chagnac, Asher Korzets, Mona Boaz, Yaacov Ori, Michal Herman, Tsipora Malachi, and Uzi Gafter

Haemolysis in haemodialysis patients: evidence for impaired defence mechanisms against oxidative stress
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 883-887; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.883 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Technical Reports:

R. Willi Grunewald, G. Martin Fiedler, Birgit Stock, Julia M. Grunewald, and Gerhard A. Müller

Immunocytological determination of lymphocytes and monocytes/macrophages in urinary sediments of renal allograft recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 888-892; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.888 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Justus Faust, Anke Visbeck, Sabine Fitzek, Clemens Fitzek, Thomas Orth, Eveline Wandel, and Werner J. Mayet

Vasculitic Wallenberg syndrome with detection of anti-proteinase 3 antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with severe Wegener's granulomatosis and only mild kidney involvement
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 893-896; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.893 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Xavier Carles, Lionel Rostaing, Anne Modesto, Claudine Orfila, Jean-Marc Cisterne, Marie-Bernadette Delisle, and Dominique Durand

Successful treatment of recurrence of immunotactoid glomerulopathy in a kidney allograft recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 897-900; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.897 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

The Interesting Cases:

Albert H. Verhage and Eric F.H. van Bommel

Catheter fracture—an underrecognized and serious condition in haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 901-903; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.901 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Neil Ashman, Islam Junaid, Martin J. Raftery, and Magdi M. Yaqoob

Gross left-sided hydronephrosis in a renal transplant recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 904-905; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.904 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Syrus Hafezi-Rachti, Regine Rieß, Sven Weidner, Andrea Wonka, and Harald D. Rupprecht

The patient with Wegener's granulomatosis and an intrasplenic mass of unknown origin
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 906-908; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.906 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Markus Sperandio, Lutz Weber, Anne Jauch, Bart Janssen, Otto Mehls, and Franz Schaefer

Cutaneous white spots in a child with polycystic kidneys: a clue to TSC2/PKD1 gene mutation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 909-912; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.909 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renal Ultrasonography Lesson:

Anna-Maria Nahm and Eberhard Ritz

The renal sinus cyst—the great imitator
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 913-914; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.913 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congress Report:

Nada Dimkovic and Eberhard Ritz

Update in Nephrology Beograd, 12 February 2000
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 915; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.915 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Announcement:

Berndt Tersteegen Award 2000
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 916; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.916 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter and Reply:

Sunil Bhandari, Iain A. M. MacPhee, and John B. Eastwood

Anti-oxidant and mushroom poisoning
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 917; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.917 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

R. Ch. Hent, F. J. M. Bergkamp, J. J. Weening, and N. H. Schut

A patient with heat insoluble cryoglobulin
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 917-918; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.917-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Berend Isermann, Susanne Schmidt, Angelika Bierhaus, Stephan Schiekofer, Valentin Borcea, Reinhard Ziegler, Peter P. Nawroth, and Eberhard Ritz

(CA)_n Dinucleotide repeat polymorphism at the 5'-end of the aldose reductase gene is not associated with microangiopathy in Caucasians with long-term diabetes mellitus 1
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 918-920; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.918 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. García-Cantón, A. Toledo, R. Palomar, F. Fernandez, J. Lopez, A. Moreno, N. Esparza, S. Suria, P. Rossique, J. M. Diaz, and D. Checa

Goodpasture's syndrome treated with mycophenolate mofetil
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 920-922; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.920 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Muhammed Hadithi, Reinold O. B. Gans, and Pieter M. ter Wee

Massive proteinuria in a patient with chronic pyelonephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 922; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.922 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agustín Carreño, Enrique Morales, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Juan Carlos Herrero, Milagros Ortiz, Ester González, and Manuel Praga

The patient with over 100 relapses of minimal change nephrotic syndrome: prolonged complete remission after chlorambucil treatment
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 922-923; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.922-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jos A. H. van Oers, Jaap de Leeuw, and Eric F. H. van Bommel

Nephrotic syndrome associated with isotretinoin
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 923-924; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.923 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Main

Atheromatous renal artery stenosis rarely causes renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 924-925; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.924 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Wright, G. Woodrow, G. Young, A. M. Brownjohn, and J. H. Turney

Biocompatible dialysis membranes do not reduce plasma leptin levels
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 925-926; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.925 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. A. Mohamed, P. MacDowall, and R. A. Coward

Timing of sildenafil therapy in dialysis patients—lessons following an episode of hypotension
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 926-927; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.926 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Goffredo Del Rosso, Lorenzo Di Liberato, Angela Perilli, Paolo Cappelli, and Mario Bonomini

A new form of acute adverse reaction to icodextrin in a peritoneal dialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 927-928; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.927 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ziad A. Massy, Jean Pascal De Bandt, Emmanuel Morelon, Marc Thevenin, Bernard Lacour, and Henri Kreis

Hyperlipidaemia and post-heparin lipase activities in renal transplant recipients treated with sirolimus or cyclosporin A
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 928; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.928 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Gallagher, Jonathan T. C. Kwan, and Peter A. Andrews

Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder: an unusual presentation in a patient receiving tacrolimus
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 928-930; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.928-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

Announcements
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 15: 931-933; doi:10.1093/ndt/15.6.931 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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