Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Gerd Walz

Slit or pore? A mutation of the ion channel TRPC6 causes FSGS
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1777-1779; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh961 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paloma Gil, Soledad Justo, and Carlos Caramelo

Cardio-renal failure: an emerging clinical entity
NDT Advance Access published on July 12, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1780-1783; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh927 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jutta Passlick-Deetjen and Eva Bedenbender-Stoll

Why thermosensing? A primer on thermoregulation
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1784-1789; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh901 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Flanigan

Melagatran anticoagulation during haemodialysis—‘Primum non nocere’
NDT Advance Access published on July 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1789-1790; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi016 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Massimo Cirillo, Pietro Anastasio, and Natale G. De Santo

Relationship of gender, age, and body mass index to errors in predicted kidney function
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1791-1798; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh962 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Olof Viktorsdottir, Runolfur Palsson, Margret B. Andresdottir, Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason, and Olafur S. Indridason

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease based on estimated glomerular filtration rate and proteinuria in Icelandic adults
NDT Advance Access published on May 31, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1799-1807; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh914 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ricardo Sesso and Sergio Wyton L. Pinto

Five-year follow-up of patients with epidemic glomerulonephritis due to Streptococcus zooepidemicus
NDT Advance Access published on May 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1808-1812; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh904 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tyree H. Kiser, Douglas N. Fish, Marilee D. Obritsch, Rose Jung, Robert MacLaren, and Chirag R. Parikh

Vasopressin, not octreotide, may be beneficial in the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome: a retrospective study
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1813-1820; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh930 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katalin Farkas, János Nemcsik, Endre Kolossváry, Zoltán Járai, Éva Nádory, Csaba Farsang, and István Kiss

Impairment of skin microvascular reactivity in hypertension and uraemia
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1821-1827; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh944 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elena Levtchenko, Adriana de Graaf-Hess, Martijn Wilmer, Lambertus van den Heuvel, Leo Monnens, and Henk Blom

Altered status of glutathione and its metabolites in cystinotic cells
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1828-1832; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh932 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zhenrong Yu, Andreas Serra, Daniel Sauter, Johannes Loffing, Daniel Ackermann, Felix J. Frey, Brigitte M. Frey, and Bruno Vogt

Sodium retention in rats with liver cirrhosis is associated with increased renal abundance of NaCl cotransporter (NCC)
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1833-1841; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh916 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tony Goovaerts, Michel Jadoul, and Eric Goffin

Influence of a Pre-Dialysis Education Programme (PDEP) on the mode of renal replacement therapy
NDT Advance Access published on May 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1842-1847; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh905 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas M. Selby, Sally Fonseca, Lisa Hulme, Richard J. Fluck, Maarten W. Taal, and Christopher W. McIntyre

Hypertonic glucose-based peritoneal dialysate is associated with higher blood pressure and adverse haemodynamics as compared with icodextrin
NDT Advance Access published on June 21, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1848-1853; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh946 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Saudan, Georges Halabi, Thomas Perneger, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Michel Kossovsky, Harold Feldman, Pierre-Yves Martin, Jean-Pierre Wauters, and for the Western Switzerland Dialysis Study Group

Variability in quality of care among dialysis units in western Switzerland
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1854-1863; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh972 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nurhan Seyahi, Arzu Kahveci, Mehmet R. Altiparmak, Kamil Serdengecti, and Ekrem Erek

Ultrasound imaging findings of femoral veins in patients with renal failure and its impact on vascular access
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1864-1867; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh942 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dennis A. Hesselink, Michiel G. H. Betjes, Martijn A. Verkade, Petros Athanassopoulos, Carla C. Baan, and Willem Weimar

The effects of chronic kidney disease and renal replacement therapy on circulating dendritic cells
NDT Advance Access published on May 10, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1868-1873; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh897 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine Fumeron, Thao Nguyen-Khoa, Claudine Saltiel, Messeret Kebede, Claude Buisson, Tilman B. Drüeke, Bernard Lacour, and Ziad A. Massy

Effects of oral vitamin C supplementation on oxidative stress and inflammation status in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 21, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1874-1879; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh928 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Ryan D. Kilpatrick, Noriko Kuwae, Charles J. McAllister, Harry Alcorn, Jr, Joel D. Kopple, and Sander Greenland

Revisiting mortality predictability of serum albumin in the dialysis population: time dependency, longitudinal changes and population-attributable fraction
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1880-1888; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh941 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Per-Ola Attman, Pia Ottosson, Ola Samuelsson, Ulf G. Eriksson, Maria Eriksson-Lepkowska, and Gunnar Fager

Prevention of clot formation during haemodialysis using the direct thrombin inhibitor melagatran in patients with chronic uraemia
NDT Advance Access published on May 31, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1889-1897; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh915 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melani R. Custódio, Fábio Montenegro, André F. P. Costa, Luciene M. dos Reis, Carlos A. Buchpiguel, Sabrina G. Oliveira, Irene L. Noronha, Rosa M. A. Moysés, and Vanda Jorgetti

MIBI scintigraphy, indicators of cell proliferation and histology of parathyroid glands in uraemic patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1898-1903; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh933 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshiko Iwasaki-Ishizuka, Hideyuki Yamato, Tomoko Nii-Kono, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, and Masafumi Fukagawa

Downregulation of parathyroid hormone receptor gene expression and osteoblastic dysfunction associated with skeletal resistance to parathyroid hormone in a rat model of renal failure with low turnover bone
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1904-1911; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh876 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chou Che-yi, Cheng Yu Wen, Kao Min-Tsung, and Huang Chiu-Ching

Acupuncture in haemodialysis patients at the Quchi (LI11) acupoint for refractory uraemic pruritus
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1912-1915; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh955 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Casper F. M. Franssen

Oxalate clearance by haemodialysis—a comparison of seven dialysers
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1916-1921; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh971 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Juliane K. Unger, Claudia Haltern, Bernd Dohmen, Axel Gressner, Christian Grosse-Siestrup, David A. Groneberg, and Rolf Rossaint

Albumin and hydroxyethyl starch 130 kDa/0.4 improve filter clearance and haemocompatibility in haemo- and plasmafiltration—an in vitro study
NDT Advance Access published on May 31, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1922-1931; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh913 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenichiro Kojima, Kuniyoshi Oda, Hitoshi Homma, Kazushi Takahashi, Yoshiko Kanda, Taketoshi Inokami, and Shunya Uchida

Effect of vitamin E-bonded dialyzer on eosinophilia in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on May 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1932-1935; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh912 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Evangelia Fragedaki, Michael Nebel, Nicole Schupp, Katarina Sebekova, Wolfgang Völkel, André Klassen, Monika Pischetsrieder, Matthias Frischmann, Toshimitsu Niwa, Jörg Vienken, August Heidland, and Helga Stopper

Genomic damage and circulating AGE levels in patients undergoing daily versus standard haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on May 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1936-1943; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh898 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masato Nishimura, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Toyofumi Fukuda, Koji Okino, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Chikako Mashida, Kiyotaka Kawagoe, Hiroshi Fujita, Naoto Inoue, Hakuo Takahashi, and Toshihiko Ono

Close association of Chlamydia pneumoniae IgA seropositivity by ELISA with the presence of coronary artery stenosis in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1944-1950; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh906 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lindsay Chesterton, Stewart H. Lambie, Lisa J. Hulme, Maarten Taal, Richard J. Fluck, and Christopher W. McIntyre

Online measurement of haemoglobin concentration
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1951-1955; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh926 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jack W. Galliford, Rao Malasana, and Ken Farrington

Switching from subcutaneous to intravenous erythropoietin in haemodialysis patients requires a major dose increase
NDT Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1956-1962; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh899 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Michelis, Shifra Sela, and Batya Kristal

Intravenous iron-gluconate during haemodialysis modifies plasma ß₂-microglobulin properties and levels
NDT Advance Access published on June 14, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1963-1969; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh907 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melanie L. Blackhall, Robert G. Fassett, James E. Sharman, Dominic P. Geraghty, and Jeff S. Coombes

Effects of antioxidant supplementation on blood cyclosporin A and glomerular filtration rate in renal transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1970-1975; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh875 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Enrico Fiaccadori, Umberto Maggiore, Carlo Rotelli, Roberto Giacosa, Edoardo Picetti, Elisabetta Parenti, Tiziana Meschi, Loris Borghi, Dante Tagliavini, and Aderville Cabassi

Effects of different energy intakes on nitrogen balance in patients with acute renal failure: a pilot study
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1976-1980; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh956 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cinzia Cortesi, Alberto Bettinelli, Francesco Emma, Michel Fischbach, Paolo Bertolani, and Mario G. Bianchetti

Severe syncope and sudden death in children with inborn salt-losing hypokalaemic tubulopathies
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1981-1983; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh893 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie-Marcelle Trinh-Trang-Tan, Jean-Pierre Cartron, and Lise Bankir

Molecular basis for the dialysis disequilibrium syndrome: altered aquaporin and urea transporter expression in the brain
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1984-1988; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh877 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Mohie E. Omar, Nicholas Davies, and Andrew Ready

Vascular access in a hemiplegic deformed arm
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1989-1990; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh947 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tanju Atamer, Bahar Artim-Esen, Selim Yavuz, and Tevfik Ecder

Massive post-obstructive diuresis in a patient with Burkitt's lymphoma
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1991-1993; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh953 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ana Carlavilla, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Teresa Ortuño, Enrique Morales, Ester González, and Manuel Praga

Relapse of lupus nephritis more than 10 years after complete remission
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1994-1998; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh954 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Martin Michael Ferring, Elizabeth Justice, Michael Pitt, and Indranil Dasgupta

A 16-year-old nephrotic patient with chest pain
NDT Advance Access published on May 10, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 1999-2001; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh903 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shaun A. Summers, Chris Laing, Terence H. Cook, and Patrick H. Maxwell

Is it rejection? Be on the lookout for ‘decoys’
NDT Advance Access published on May 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2002-2004; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh909 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Kitty J. Jager and Carmine Zoccali

QUality European STudies (QUEST)–a step forward in the quality of RRT care
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2005-2006; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi036 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Alessandro C. Pasqualotto, Antonio E. N. Bittar, Maurício de Quadros, and Luiz C. Severo

Cryptococcal cellulitis in a renal transplant patient
NDT Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2007-2008; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh801 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Robert Liebl

Nutcracker phenomenon or nutcracker syndrome?
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2009; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh917 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tzung-Hai Yen and Chiz-Tzung Chang

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2009; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh918 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles J. Diskin and Thomas J. Stokes

Vascular access cannulation and the end of religion: is it time or our own human variables that determine success?
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2010-2011; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh951 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giuliano Brunori

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2011; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh952 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Hassane Izzedine, Vincent Launay-Vacher, and Gilbert Deray

Thalidomide for the nephrologist
NDT Advance Access published on July 26, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2011-2012; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi015 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomonori Kishino, Kazuhisa Nakamura, Hideaki Mori, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi Takahashi, Hitoshi Ishida, Shozo Saito, and Takashi Watanabe

Acute pancreatitis during haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on June 21, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2012-2013; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh949 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ya-Fei Yang, Vin-cent Wu, and Chiu-Ching Huang

Successful management of extreme hypernatraemia by haemofiltration in a patient with severe metabolic acidosis and renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on June 28, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2013-2014; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh958 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jae Il Shin, Jee Min Park, Jae Seung Lee, Duk Hee Kim, and Hyeon Joo Jeong

Development of Graves' disease during cyclosporin treatment for severe Henoch–Schönlein nephritis
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2014-2015; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh959 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jae Il Shin and Jae Seung Lee

Nutcracker phenomenon or nutcracker syndrome?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 20: 2015; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi078 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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