Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Bengt Rippe

What is the role of albumin in proteinuric glomerulopathies?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 1-5; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg390 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Liffert Vogt, Gozewijn D. Laverman, Robin P. F. Dullaart, and Gerjan Navis

Lipid management in the proteinuric patient: do not overlook the importance of proteinuria reduction
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 5-8; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg497 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard J. Baker and Charles D. Pusey

The changing profile of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 8-11; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg464 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Böhm, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Ulrich Laufs

Alcohol and red wine: impact on cardiovascular risk
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 11-16; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg340 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Trenkwalder

Antihypertensive treatment with calcium channel blockers: pharmacological pornography or useful intervention?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 17-20; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg431 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ferdinand H. Bahlmann, Kirsten de Groot, Hermann Haller, and Danilo Fliser

Erythropoietin: is it more than correcting anaemia?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 20-22; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg455 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ton J. Rabelink

Cardiovascular risk in patients with renal disease: treating the risk or treating the risk factor?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 23-26; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg421 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michele Buemi, Carmela Aloisi, Giuseppa Cutroneo, Lorena Nostro, and Alessandro Favaloro

Flowing time on the peritoneal membrane
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 26-29; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg446 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Personal Opinions:

Vittorio E. Andreucci, David N. S. Kerr, and Joel D. Kopple

Rights of chronic renal failure patients undergoing chronic dialysis therapy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 30-38; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg531 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Child-Adult Interface:

Bernd Hoppe and Ernst Leumann

Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in hyperoxaluria: a plea for early intervention
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 39-42; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg507 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congress Report:

Seema Baid-Agrawal, Petra Reinke, Ralf Schindler, Stefan Tullius, and Ulrich Frei

WCN 2003 Satellite Symposium on Kidney Transplantation in the Elderly, Weimar, Germany, June 12–14, 2003
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 43-46; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg528 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Patrick C. Baer, Binytha Wegner, and Helmut Geiger

Effects of mycophenolic acid on IL-6 expression of human renal proximal and distal tubular cells in vitro
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 47-52; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg429 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessandro Amore, Paola Cirina, Giovanni Conti, Franco Cerutti, Nayer Bagheri, Steven Noel Emancipator, and Rosanna Coppo

Amadori-configurated albumin induces nitric oxide-dependent apoptosis of endothelial cells: a possible mechanism of diabetic vasculopathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 53-60; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg428 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian W. Mall, Andreas W. Philipp, Axel Rademacher, Manrico Paulitschke, and Rolf Büttemeyer

Re-endothelialization of punctured ePTFE graft: an in vitro study under pulsed perfusion conditions
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 61-67; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg319 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mario Bonomini, Enzo Ballone, Silvio Di Stante, Tonino Bucciarelli, Secondo Dottori, Arduino Arduini, Andrea Urbani, and Vittorio Sirolli

Removal of uraemic plasma factor(s) using different dialysis modalities reduces phosphatidylserine exposure in red blood cells
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 68-74; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg532 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wayne H. F. Sutherland, Sylvia A. de Jong, and Robert J. Walker

Hypochlorous acid and low serum paraoxonase activity in haemodialysis patients: an in vitro study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 75-82; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg484 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mirjana Jerkic, Zoran Miloradovic, Durddica Jovovic, Nevena Mihailovic-Stanojevic, Juan Vicente Rivas Elena, Danica Nastic-Miric, Gordana Grujic-Adanja, Alicia Rodríguez-Barbero, Jasmina Markovic-Lipkovski, Srecko B. Vojvodic, Marta Vicens Manero, Marta Pérez Prieto, and José Miguel López-Novoa

Relative roles of endothelin-1 and angiotensin II in experimental post-ischaemic acute renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 83-94; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg521 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eduard A. Iliescu, Karen E. Yeates, and David C. Holland

Quality of sleep in patients with chronic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 95-99; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg423 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erwin Hecking, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Hugh C. Rayner, Ronald L. Pisoni, Vittorio E. Andreucci, Christian Combe, Roger Greenwood, Keith McCullough, Harold I. Feldman, Eric W. Young, Philip J. Held, and Friedrich K. Port

Haemodialysis prescription, adherence and nutritional indicators in five European countries: results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 100-107; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg418 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh C. Rayner, Ronald L. Pisoni, Juergen Bommer, Bernard Canaud, Erwin Hecking, Francesco Locatelli, Luis Piera, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Harold I. Feldman, David A. Goodkin, Brenda Gillespie, Robert A. Wolfe, Philip J. Held, and Friedrich K. Port

Mortality and hospitalization in haemodialysis patients in five European countries: results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 108-120; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg483 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Locatelli, Ronald L. Pisoni, Christian Combe, Juergen Bommer, Vittorio E. Andreucci, Luis Piera, Roger Greenwood, Harold I. Feldman, Friedrich K. Port, and Philip J. Held

Anaemia in haemodialysis patients of five European countries: association with morbidity and mortality in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 121-132; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg458 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Wright, Graham Woodrow, Siobahn O’Brien, Elizabeth Armstrong, Neil King, Louise Dye, John Blundell, Aleck Brownjohn, and John Turney

Cholecystokinin and leptin: their influence upon the eating behaviour and nutrient intake of dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 133-140; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg471 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Rudolph A. Rodriguez, and Michael H. Humphreys

Association between serum ferritin and measures of inflammation, nutrition and iron in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 141-149; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg493 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Tsirpanlis, Pantelis Bagos, Dimitris Ioannou, Aliki Bleta, Ioanna Marinou, Antonis Lagouranis, Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou, and Chrysoula Nicolaou

The variability and accurate assessment of microinflammation in haemodialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 150-157; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg486 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacek Rysz, Marek Kasielski, Joanna Apanasiewicz, Maciej Król, Andrzej Woznicki, Marek Luciak, and Dariusz Nowak

Increased hydrogen peroxide in the exhaled breath of uraemic patients unaffected by haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 158-163; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg499 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reinhard Klingel, Michael Schaefer, Andreas Schwarting, Frido Himmelsbach, Ulrich Altes, Ingrid Uhlenbusch-Körwer, and Gerd Hafner

Comparative analysis of procoagulatory activity of haemodialysis, haemofiltration and haemodiafiltration with a polysulfone membrane (APS) and with different modes of enoxaparin anticoagulation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 164-170; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg459 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Olivier Cointault, Nassim Kamar, Pierre Bories, Laurence Lavayssiere, Olivier Angles, Lionel Rostaing, Michèle Genestal, and Dominique Durand

Regional citrate anticoagulation in continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration using commercial solutions
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 171-178; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg488 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tetsuo Shoji, Kayo Shinohara, Eiji Kimoto, Masanori Emoto, Hideki Tahara, Hidenori Koyama, Masaaki Inaba, Shinya Fukumoto, Eiji Ishimura, Takami Miki, Tsutomu Tabata, and Yoshiki Nishizawa

Lower risk for cardiovascular mortality in oral 1-hydroxy vitamin D₃ users in a haemodialysis population
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 179-184; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg513 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ezio Movilli, Giovanni C. Cancarini, Silvia Cassamali, Corrado Camerini, Giulio Brunori, Camilla Maffei, and Rosario Maiorca

Inter-dialytic variations in blood volume and total body water in uraemic patients treated by dialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 185-189; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg494 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abdelbasit Ayoub and Mary Finlayson

Effect of cool temperature dialysate on the quality and patients’ perception of haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 190-194; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg512 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariano Feriani, Jutta Passlick-Deetjen, Irmtrud Jaeckle-Meyer, and Giuseppe La Greca

Individualized bicarbonate concentrations in the peritoneal dialysis fluid to optimize acid–base status in CAPD patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 195-202; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg472 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sydney Tang, Sing Leung Lui, Chi Yuen Lo, Wai Kei Lo, Ignatius K. P. Cheng, Kar Neng Lai, and Tak Mao Chan

Spousal renal donor transplantation in Chinese subjects: a 10 year experience from a single centre
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 203-206; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg492 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emmanuel Villar, Muriel Rabilloud, François Berthoux, Paul Vialtel, Michel Labeeuw, and Claire Pouteil-Noble

A multicentre study of registration on renal transplantation waiting list of the elderly and patients with type 2 diabetes
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 207-214; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg500 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gunilla Einecke, Ingrid Mai, Lutz Fritsche, Torsten Slowinski, Johannes Waiser, Hans-Hellmut Neumayer, and Klemens Budde

The value of C₂ monitoring in stable renal allograft recipients on maintenance immunosuppression
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 215-222; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg434 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Min Hu, Geoff Y. Zhang, Susan Arbuckle, Nicole Graf, Albert Shun, Martin Silink, Deborah Lewis, and Stephen I. Alexander

Prophylactic bilateral nephrectomies in two paediatric patients with missense mutations in the WT1 gene
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 223-226; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg473 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Georgios Efstratiadis, Dimitrios Kirmizis, Konstantinos Papazoglou, Dominiki Economidou, and Dimitrios Memmos

The walking man with a completely occluded aorta
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 227-229; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg379 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mehrengise Cooper, Mary E. McGraw, D. Joe Unsworth, and Peter Mathieson

Familial mesangio-capillary glomerulonephritis with initial presentation as haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 230-233; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg470 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kate L. Milne, Katharine P. Stanley, Rosemary C. Temple, Tim H. Barker, and Calum N. Ross

Microscopic polyangiitis: first report of a case with onset during pregnancy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 234-237; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg463 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hans Freudiger and Radan Sitavanc

Reverse seroconversion of hepatitis B in a haemodialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 238-241; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg448 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher D. Steadman, Andrew H. J. Salmon, and Charles R. V. Tomson

Isolated sphenoid sinusitis complicated by meningitis and multiple cerebral infarctions in a renal transplant recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 242-244; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg490 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Doreen Reimann, Eckhart Büssemaker, and Peter Gross

Successful treatment due to vacuum seal technique of a severe Scedosporium apiospermum skin infection in a renal transplant recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 245-248; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg433 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interesting Case:

Maria Capria, Michele Andreucci, Laura Fuiano, Domenico Mancuso, Paola Cianfrone, Nicola Comi, Giuseppe Mazza, Alfredo Caglioti, and Giorgio Fuiano

Double nucleotidic mutation of the MYH9 gene in a young patient with end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 249-251; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg475 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Chiao-Lin Chuang, Kun-Po Chen, Shang-Yeong Kwan, and Wu-Chang Yang

Creutzfeldt–Jakob-like EEG in a patient with end-stage renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 252-254; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg476 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz:

Giorgina Piccoli, Salvatore Bontempo, Elisabetta Mezza, Francesca Bermond, Giorgio Soragna, Carlo Umberto Preve, Alberto Jeantet, Giuseppe Paolo Segoloni, and Tullia Todros

Sudden development of low tolerance of dialysis in a young female patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 255-257; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg517 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Rizwan Hamer and Senyo Tagboto

Superior vena caval obstruction following central venous cannulation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 258; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg478 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Obituaries:

J. Stewart Cameron

Marcel Legrain (1923–2003)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 259; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg527 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Amir Kazory

Post-transplant erythrocytosis and thromboembolic events: an error
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 260; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg501 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

François Berthoux

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 260; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg502 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Main and Caroline Wroe

Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis in patients starting dialysis: an emperor with no clothes
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 260-261; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg519 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacobine M. A. van Ampting, Hein A. Koomans, and Jaap J. Beutler

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 261; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg520 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Robyn G. Langham, Darren J. Kelly, Alison J. Cox, Renae M. Gow, Harry Holthofer, and Richard E. Gilbert

Angiotensin II-induced proteinuria and expression of the podocyte slit pore membrane protein, nephrin
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 262-263; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg509 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles L. Smith, Sheila K. Gemar, and Matthew J. Lewis

Pseudoephedrine urolithiasis associated with acute renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 263-264; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg510 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Khalid H. Al-Wadei, Nagib W. Abu-Asba, and Ahmed F. Donia

The first reported case of successful pregnancy in a haemodialysis patient in Yemen
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19: 264; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfg392 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

Announcement
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Acknowledgement:

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