Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Dominique Joly, Aurélie Hummel, Antonella Ruello, and Bertrand Knebelmann

Ciliary function of polycystins: a new model for cystogenesis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1689-1692; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg256 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brigitte Boldyreff and Martin Wehling

Non-genomic actions of aldosterone: mechanisms and consequences in kidney cells
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1693-1695; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg265 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Israel Zelikovic

Hypokalaemic salt-losing tubulopathies: an evolving story
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1696-1700; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg249 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John E. Scoble

Do protection devices have a role in renal angioplasty and stent placement?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1700-1703; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg254 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Markus Ketteler, Uta Kunter, and Jürgen Floege

An update on herpes virus infections in graft recipients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1703-1706; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg255 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wolf H. Boesken

Disease management programmes: reorganization of healthcare delivery in Germany
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1707-1710; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg262 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Invited Comment:

Ole Torffvit

Hyperglycaemia in diabetes: impact on nephropathy and cardiac risk
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1711-1715; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Francesco Locatelli, Bernard Canaud, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Peter Stenvinkel, Christoph Wanner, and Carmine Zoccali

The importance of diabetic nephropathy in current nephrological practice
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1716-1725; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg288 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Historical Notes:

Giovanni B. Fogazzi

May 1954: the first ever symposium on the artificial kidney
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1726-1730; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg131 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rapid Communications:

Gérard M. London, Alain P. Guérin, Sylvain J. Marchais, Fabien Métivier, Bruno Pannier, and Hasan Adda

Arterial media calcification in end-stage renal disease: impact on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1731-1740; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg414 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Jinn-Yang Chen, Chin-Wen Chi, Hui-Ling Chen, Chiung-Pei Wan, Wu-Chang Yang, and An-Hang Yang

TNF- renders human peritoneal mesothelial cells sensitive to anti-Fas antibody-induced apoptosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1741-1747; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg275 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joachim Höchel, Dörte Lehmann, Claudia Fehrenberg, Volker Unger, David A. Groneberg, and Christian Große-Siestrup

Effects of different perfusates on functional parameters of isolated perfused dog kidneys
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1748-1754; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg285 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pascale Bardoux, Patrick Bruneval, Didier Heudes, Nadine Bouby, and Lise Bankir

Diabetes-induced albuminuria: role of antidiuretic hormone as revealed by chronic V₂ receptor antagonism in rats
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1755-1763; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg277 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessandro Cavarape, Johannes Bauer, Ettore Bartoli, Karlhans Endlich, and Niranjan Parekh

Effects of angiotensin II, arginine vasopressin and tromboxane A₂ in renal vascular bed: role of rho-kinase
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1764-1769; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg291 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michinori Hirata, Kyoko Katsumata, Koichi Endo, Naoshi Fukushima, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, and Masafumi Fukagawa

In subtotally nephrectomized rats 22-oxacalcitriol suppresses parathyroid hormone with less risk of cardiovascular calcification or deterioration of residual renal function than 1,25(OH)₂ vitamin D₃
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1770-1776; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg296 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean Bariety, Gary S. Hill, Chantal Mandet, Theano Irinopoulou, Christian Jacquot, Alain Meyrier, and Patrick Bruneval

Glomerular epithelial–mesenchymal transdifferentiation in pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1777-1784; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg231 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Virpi Rauta, Anna-Maija Teppo, Tom Törnroth, Eero Honkanen, and Carola Grönhagen-Riska

Lower urinary-interleukin-1 receptor-antagonist excretion in IgA nephropathy than in Henoch–Schönlein nephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1785-1791; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg234 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agneta Wikman, Anna Fagergren, S. Gunnar O. Johansson, Joachim Lundahl, and Stefan H. Jacobson

Monocyte activation and relationship to anti-proteinase 3 in acute vasculitis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1792-1799; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg216 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce Mackinnon, Michael Boulton-Jones, and Kevin McLaughlin

Analgesic-associated nephropathy in the West of Scotland: a 12-year observational study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1800-1805; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg230 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manuel Praga, Carlos Fernández Andrade, José Luño, Manuel Arias, Rafael Poveda, Jose Mora, Marti Valles Prat, Francisco Rivera, Jose María Galceran, Jorge Martínez Ara, Román Aguirre, Carmen Bernis, Rafael Marín, and Jose María Campistol

Antiproteinuric efficacy of losartan in comparison with amlodipine in non-diabetic proteinuric renal diseases: a double-blind, randomized clinical trial
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1806-1813; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg284 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Constança S. Cruz, Álvaro A. Cruz, and Carlos A. Marcílio de Souza

Hyperkalaemia in congestive heart failure patients using ACE inhibitors and spironolactone
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1814-1819; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg295 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rubina Naqvi, Ejaz Ahmad, Fazal Akhtar, Anwar Naqvi, and Adib Rizvi

Outcome in severe acute renal failure associated with malaria
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1820-1823; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg260 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bénédicte Stengel, Solenne Billon, Paul C.W. van Dijk, Kitty J. Jager, Friedo W. Dekker, Keith Simpson, and J. Douglas Briggs

Trends in the incidence of renal replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease in Europe, 1990–1999
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1824-1833; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg233 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valérie Moal, Philippe Brunet, Laetitia Dou, Sophie Morange, José Sampol, and Yvon Berland

Impaired expression of glycoproteins on resting and stimulated platelets in uraemic patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1834-1841; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg185 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tatsuyuki Yamauchi, Tsutomu Kuno, Hiroshi Takada, Yuji Nagura, Katsuo Kanmatsuse, and Susumu Takahashi

The impact of visceral fat on multiple risk factors and carotid atherosclerosis in chronic haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1842-1847; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg261 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Darren S. Parsons, David A. Reaveley, Darrell V. Pavitt, Madhukar Misra, and Edwina A. Brown

Lipoprotein (a) levels in those with high molecular weight apo (a) isoforms may remain low in a significant proportion of patients with end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1848-1853; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg276 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giorgos K. Sakkas, Anthony J. Sargeant, Thomas H. Mercer, Derek Ball, Pelagia Koufaki, Christina Karatzaferi, and Patrick F. Naish

Changes in muscle morphology in dialysis patients after 6 months of aerobic exercise training
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1854-1861; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg237 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paolo Fanti, Tammy J. Stephenson, Ismo M. Kaariainen, Butros Rezkalla, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Morishita, Masanori Nomura, Chagriya Kitiyakara, Laurie J. Custer, and Adrian A. Franke

Serum isoflavones and soya food intake in Japanese, Thai and American end-stage renal disease patients on chronic haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1862-1868; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg229 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miklos Zrinyi, Maria Juhasz, Jozsef Balla, Eva Katona, Thomas Ben, Gyorgy Kakuk, and Denes Pall

Dietary self-efficacy: determinant of compliance behaviours and biochemical outcomes in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1869-1873; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg307 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincenzo Bellizzi, Biagio R. Di Iorio, Vincenzo Terracciano, Roberto Minutolo, Carmela Iodice, Luca De Nicola, and Giuseppe Conte

Daily nutrient intake represents a modifiable determinant of nutritional status in chronic haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1874-1881; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg239 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abderrahmane Ghazali, Franck Grados, Roxana Oprisiu, Delia Bunea, Philippe Morinière, Najeh El Esper, Isabelle El Esper, Michel Brazier, Jean Claude Souberbielle, Albert Fournier, and Thierry Thomas

Bone mineral density directly correlates with elevated serum leptin in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1882-1890; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg268 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin C. Geddes, Colin C. Church, Tara Collidge, Elizabeth A. B. McCruden, Graeme Gillespie, Elaine Matthews, Anke Hainmueller, and J. Douglas Briggs

Management of cytomegalovirus infection by weekly surveillance after renal transplant: analysis of cost, rejection and renal function
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1891-1898; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg283 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Solbjørg Sagedal, Knut P. Nordal, Anders Hartmann, Karsten Midtvedt, Aksel Foss, Anders Åsberg, Miklos Degré, Per Fauchald, and Halvor Rollag

Pre-emptive therapy of CMVpp65 antigen positive renal transplant recipients with oral ganciclovir: a randomized, comparative study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1899-1908; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg302 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hélène François, Antoine Dürrbach, Mounia Amor, Rachid Djeffal, Fayçal Kriaa, Valérie Paradis, Pierre Bedossa, and Bernard Charpentier

The long-term effect of switching from cyclosporin A to mycophenolate mofetil in chronic renal graft dysfunction compared with conventional management
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1909-1916; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg250 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Rashed S. Bakri, Matthew Prime, Ali Haydar, Jonathan Glass, and David J. A. Goldsmith

Three ‘Pages’ in a chapter of accidents
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1917-1919; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg308 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rachel Jones, Sapna Shah, Eithne E. M. MacMahon, and David J. A. Goldsmith

Respiratory syncytial virus pneumonitis complicating immunosuppressive treatment for ANCA-positive vasculitis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1920-1922; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg290 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leila Tricot, Yasmina Yahiaoui, Luis Teixeira, Leila Benabdallah, Eugene Rothschild, Jean-Pierre Juquel, Veronique Satre, Jean-Pierre Grünfeld, and Dominique Chauveau

End-stage renal failure in Lowe syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1923-1925; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg294 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven W. Fineman and James L. Bailey

Post-laminectomy arteriovenous fistula with initial presentation as acute tubular necrosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1926-1928; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg293 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karien M. Wesseling, Robert G. J. M. Pierik, and Joop J. G. Offerman

Laparoscopic therapy in a CAPD patient with perforated appendicitis without removal of the peritoneal catheter
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1929-1930; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg289 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassane Izzedine, Vincent Launay-Vacher, Vincent Jullien, Guy Aymard, Claudine Duvivier, and Gilbert Deray

Pharmacokinetics of tenofovir in haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1931-1933; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg327 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Cheng-Hung Huang, Jinn-Yang Chen, An-Hang Yang, and Wu-Chang Yang

Painful swelling of the left elbow in a uraemic patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1934-1936; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg015 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz:

Dirk Wernicke, Kai Schmidt-Ott, Jan Hinrich Bräsen, Dieter Erich Möller, and Ursula Göbel

A renal biopsy yields sight as well as insight
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1937-1938; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg218 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Robert K. Peel, Jai Patel, and Graham Woodrow

Iliac artery false aneurysm following renal allograft: presentation with non-specific inflammatory response and treatment by endovascular stent graft
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1939-1940; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg286 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Obituaries:

J. Stewart Cameron

Sir Douglas Black (1913–2002)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1941-1942; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg220 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Amit Kumar Ghosh and Narayana S. Murali

Online access to nephrology journals: the FUTON bias
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1943; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg247 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tilman Drueke, Norbert Lameire, and Mandy Hill

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1943; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg248 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Biagio R. Di Iorio and Vincenzo Bellizzi

Bioelectrical impedance analysis and assessment of body composition in end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1943-1944; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg278 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Ayako Kamimura and Lilian Cuppari

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1944-1945; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg279 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Javier Deira, Julia Diego, Rosa Martínez, Amaya Oyarbide, Hugo Díaz, Carlos Ochoa, José Tabernero, and Jesús Grande

Soluble transferrin receptor levels in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1945-1946; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg273 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Der-Cherng Tarng and Tung-Po Huang

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1946-1947; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg274 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Massimo Sabbatini, Antonio Pisani, Francesco Mirenghi, Bruno Cianciaruso, and Anna Crispo

The impact of haemoglobin on the quality of sleep in haemodialysis patients: which is the truth?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1947-1948; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg257 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eduard A. Iliescu and Wilma M. Hopman

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1948; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg258 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amit Kumar Ghosh

Primary care management of chronic dialysis patients: emerging challenges
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1948-1949; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg245 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Zimmerman

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1949; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg246 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Cristiana Rollino, Donata Bellis, Giulietta Beltrame, Bruno Basolo, Alberto Montemagno, Sebastiano Bucolo, Michela Ferro, Giacomo Quattrocchio, Sergio Coverlizza, and Francesco Quarello

Acute renal failure in leishmaniasis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1950-1951; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg267 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ying-ying T. Seow, Heather Iles-Smith, Helen Hirst, and Ram Gokal

Icodextrin-associated peritonitis among CAPD patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1951-1952; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg305 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review:

C. Jacobs

Kidney Failure Explained. Andy Stein and Janet Wild, Class Publishing, London, UK, 2002
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1953; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg221 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Francesco Locatelli, Bernard Canaud, Francis Giacardy, Alejandro Martin-Malo, Nigel Baker, and Janet Wilson

Treatment of anaemia in dialysis patients with unit dosing of darbepoetin alfa at a reduced dose frequency relative to recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1954; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg442 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jochen W. U. Fries, Tanja Roth, Hans-Peter Dienes, Manfred Weber, and Margarete Odenthal

A novel evaluation method for paraffinized human renal biopsies using quantitative analysis of microdissected glomeruli and VCAM-1 as marker of inflammatory mesangial cell activation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1954; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg443 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stéphan Troyanov, Jean Cardinal, David Geadah, Daniel Parent, Sylvie Courteau, Sylvie Caron, and Martine Leblanc

Solute clearances during continuous venovenous haemofiltration at various ultrafiltration flow rates using Multiflow-100 and HF1000 filters
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 18: 1954; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg444 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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