Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Geoffrey R. Bihl, Michelle Petri, and Derek M. Fine

Kidney biopsy in lupus nephritis: look before you leap
NDT Advance Access published on April 21, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1749-1752; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl159 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerd Walz

Therapeutic approaches in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD): is there light at the end of the tunnel?
NDT Advance Access published on May 16, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1752-1757; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl246 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ban Hock Tan

CMV prophylaxis—to do or not to do, that is the question
NDT Advance Access published on April 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1757-1761; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl151 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jörg Dötsch, Katalin Dittrich, Christian Plank, and Wolfgang Rascher

Is tacrolimus for childhood steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome better than ciclosporin A?
NDT Advance Access published on May 15, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1761-1763; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl222 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claude Jacobs

The case for a fair compensation policy of economic consequences incurred by living kidney donors
NDT Advance Access published on June 8, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1764-1765; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl288 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ewa Lewin and Klaus Olgaard

Parathyroidectomy vs calcimimetics for treatment of persistent hyperparathyroidism after kidney transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on June 8, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1766-1769; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl283 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology:

Ewa Lewin and Klaus Olgaard

Klotho, an important new factor for the activity of Ca²⁺ channels, connecting calcium homeostasis, ageing and uraemia
NDT Advance Access published on April 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1770-1772; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl178 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masaomi Nangaku

A Crry for polar shedding
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1773-1775; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl141 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature:

Raymond Vanholder

Chronic kidney disease in adults—UK guidelines for identification, management and referral
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1776-1777; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl351 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Experimental Nephrology:

Andrea Hartner, Markus Porst, Bernd Klanke, Nada Cordasic, Roland Veelken, and Karl F. Hilgers

Angiotensin II formation in the kidney and nephrosclerosis in Ren-2 hypertensive rats
NDT Advance Access published on March 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1778-1785; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masayoshi Ohnishi, Goji Hasegawa, Masahiro Yamasaki, Hiroshi Obayashi, Michiaki Fukui, Toshiki Nakajima, Yukiko Ichida, Hiroyuki Ohse, Shin-ichi Mogami, Toshikazu Yoshikawa, and Naoto Nakamura

Integrin-linked kinase acts as a pro-survival factor against high glucose-associated osmotic stress in human mesangial cells
NDT Advance Access published on April 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1786-1793; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hao-Ai Shui, Shuk-Man Ka, Jung-Chen Lin, Jien-Huei Lee, Jong-Shiaw Jin, Yuh-Feng Lin, Lai-Fa Sheu, and Ann Chen

Fibronectin in blood invokes the development of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in mouse model
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1794-1802; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jürgen W. Treckmann, Andreas Paul, Stefano Saad, Julia Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz Waldmann, Christoph E. Broelsch, and Manfred Nagelschmidt

Primary organ function of warm ischaemically damaged porcine kidneys after retrograde oxygen persufflation
NDT Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1803-1808; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Clinical Nephrology:

Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Scott M. Montgomery, Ola Olén, Anders Ekbom, Johnny Ludvigsson, and Michael Fored

Coeliac disease and risk of renal disease—a general population cohort study
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1809-1815; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gisela Schieren, Brigitta Rumberger, Marinella Klein, Clemens Kreutz, Jochen Wilpert, Marcel Geyer, Daniel Faller, Jens Timmer, Ivo Quack, Lars Christian Rump, Gerd Walz, and Johannes Donauer

Gene profiling of polycystic kidneys
NDT Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1816-1824; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Smaragdi Marinaki, Anna-Isabelle Kälsch, Peter Grimminger, Annette Breedijk, Rainer Birck, Wilhelm H Schmitt, Christel Weiss, Fokko J van der Woude, and Benito A Yard

Persistent T-cell activation and clinical correlations in patients with ANCA-associated systemic vasculitis
NDT Advance Access published on March 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1825-1832; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl097 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Kömhoff, Günter Klaus, Sofia Nazarowa, Stephan C. Reinalter, and Hannsjörg W. Seyberth

Increased systolic blood pressure with rofecoxib in congenital furosemide-like salt loss
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1833-1837; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jian Su, Zhi-Hong Liu, Cai-Hong Zeng, Wei-Gong, Hui-Ping Chen, and Lei-Shi Li

Quantitative analysis of type IV collagen subchains in the glomerular basement membrane of patients with Alport syndrome with confocal microscopy
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1838-1847; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl090 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manish D. Sinha, Rebecca MacLeod, Emma Rigby, and A. Godfrey B. Clark

Treatment of severe steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome (SDNS) in children with tacrolimus
NDT Advance Access published on November 25, 2005
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1848-1854; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Radovan Hojs, Sebastjan Bevc, Robert Ekart, Maksimiljan Gorenjak, and Ludvik Puklavec

Serum cystatin C as an endogenous marker of renal function in patients with mild to moderate impairment of kidney function
NDT Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1855-1862; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Etienne Macedo, Regina Abdulkader, Isac Castro, Augusto C. C. Sobrinho, Lius Yu, and Jose M. Vieira, Jr

Lack of protection of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) in acute renal failure related to elective aortic aneurysm repair—a randomized controlled trial
NDT Advance Access published on March 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1863-1869; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maurizio Terribile, Maria Capuano, Giovanni Cangiano, Vincenzo Carnovale, Pietro Ferrara, Michele Petrarulo, and Martino Marangella

Factors increasing the risk for stone formation in adult patients with cystic fibrosis
NDT Advance Access published on April 4, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1870-1875; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Juhani Myllymäki, Jaana Syrjänen, Heikki Helin, Amos Pasternack, Anna Kattainen, and Jukka Mustonen

Vascular diseases and their risk factors in IgA nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on March 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1876-1882; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Dialysis and Transplantation:

Nicholas M. Selby and Christopher W. McIntyre

A systematic review of the clinical effects of reducing dialysate fluid temperature
NDT Advance Access published on April 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1883-1898; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl126 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann Marie McKenna, Laura E. Keating, Annette Vigneux, Sarah Stevens, Angela Williams, and Denis F. Geary

Quality of life in children with chronic kidney disease—patient and caregiver assessments
NDT Advance Access published on April 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1899-1905; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sonia Briese, Sandra Wiesner, Joachim C. Will, Alexander Lembcke, Bernd Opgen-Rhein, Richard Nissel, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Judit Andreae, Dieter Haffner, and Uwe Querfeld

Arterial and cardiac disease in young adults with childhood-onset end-stage renal disease—impact of calcium and vitamin D therapy
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1906-1914; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hae Hyuk Jung, Sang-Wook Kim, and Heon Han

Inflammation, mineral metabolism and progressive coronary artery calcification in patients on haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1915-1920; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessandra Testa, Francesco A. Benedetto, Belinda Spoto, Anna Pisano, Giovanni Tripepi, Francesca Mallamaci, Lorenzo S. Malatino, and Carmine Zoccali

The E-selectin gene polymorphism and carotid atherosclerosis in end-stage renal disease
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1921-1926; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Todd J. Anderson, Yiu-Hui Sun, Jaroslav Hubacek, M. Eric Hyndman, Subodh Verma, Lana Shewchuk, and Nairne Scott-Douglas

Effects of folinic acid on forearm blood flow in patients with end-stage renal disease
NDT Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1927-1933; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark S. MacGregor, John W. M. Agar, and Christopher R. Blagg

Home haemodialysis—international trends and variation
NDT Advance Access published on March 14, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1934-1945; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alberto Edefonti, Fabio Paglialonga, Marina Picca, Francesco Perfumo, Enrico Verrina, Giancarlo Lavoratti, Stefano Rinaldi, Gainfranco Rizzoni, Graziella Zacchello, Antonio Ciofani, Palma Sorino, Silvana Loi, and M. R. Grassi

A prospective multicentre study of the nutritional status in children on chronic peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1946-1951; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine S. Clarke, Scott Klarenbach, Sorina Vlaicu, Robert C. Yang, and Amit X. Garg for the Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network

The direct and indirect economic costs incurred by living kidney donors—a systematic review
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1952-1960; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gwenn E. McLaughlin, Maria D. Alva, and Marcelo Egea

Adenosine receptor antagonism in acute tacrolimus toxicity
NDT Advance Access published on March 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1961-1965; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl082 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mohamad El-Faramawi, Nils Rohr, and Bente Jespersen

Steroid-free immunosuppression after renal transplantation—long-term experience from a single centre
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1966-1973; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl131 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Salam Al-Khoury, Nilesh Shah, Behdad Afzali, Adrian Covic, Judy Taylor, and David Goldsmith

Post-transplantation anaemia in adult and paediatric renal allograft recipients—Guy's Hospital experience
NDT Advance Access published on April 4, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1974-1980; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Reports:

Robert J. Hinchliffe, Bernie Kirk, Dipankar Bhattacharjee, Simon Roe, William Jeffcoate, and Fran Game

The effect of haemodialysis on transcutaneous oxygen tension in patients with diabetes—a pilot study
NDT Advance Access published on May 15, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1981-1983; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl241 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Stefan Farese, Kushiar Shojaati, Bert Kadereit, Felix J. Frey, and Markus G. Mohaupt

Blood pressure reduction in pregnancy by sodium chloride
NDT Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1984-1987; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl106 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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

Massive increase in proteinuria after the introduction of midodrine in an elderly patient—a case report
NDT Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1988; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl081 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John F. O'Toole, Edgar A. Otto, Yaacov Frishberg, and Friedhelm Hildebrandt

Retinitis pigmentosa and renal failure in a patient with mutations in INVS
NDT Advance Access published on March 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1989-1991; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takayasu Ohtake, Shuzo Kobayashi, Koji Okamoto, Machiko Oka, Kyoko Maesato, Takeo Yasu, and Hidekazu Moriya

Ticlopidine-induced lupus with renal involvement
NDT Advance Access published on February 9, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1992-1993; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl028 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clare Castledine, David Wright, and Edward Kingdon

Rosiglitazone as a cause of acute interstitial nephritis
NDT Advance Access published on February 28, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1994-1995; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl045 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sérgio Pinto de Souza, Rodrigo Bezerra, Lúcia Andrade, and Antonio Carlos Seguro

Combined therapy with dialysis and glucocorticoids in critically ill renal failure patients
NDT Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1996-1998; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl085 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nestor Velasco, Mark S. MacGregor, Andrew Innes, and Ian G. MacKay

Successful treatment of calciphylaxis with cinacalcet—an alternative to parathyroidectomy?
NDT Advance Access published on April 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 1999-2004; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl114 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amir Hassan, Mohammed Khalifa, Mahmoud Al-Akraa, Rozanne Lord, and Andrew Davenport

Six cases of retained central venous haemodialysis access catheters
NDT Advance Access published on April 21, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2005-2008; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl123 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christoph Betz, Daniel Kraus, Cindy Müller, and Helmut Geiger

Iliac cuffed tunnelled catheters for chronic haemodialysis vascular access
NDT Advance Access published on April 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2009-2012; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl176 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interesting Case:

Jens Eckstein, Spasenija Savic, Thomas Eugster, Hans Pargger, Lorenz Gürke, Martina Pechula, Jürg Steiger, and Michael Mayr

Extensive calcifications induced by hyperphosphataemia caused by phosphate-based enema in a patient after kidney transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on May 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2013-2016; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl284 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Points:

Susanne Heiss, Wolfgang Krampla, and Renate Klauser-Braun

A patient recently transplanted with a living donor kidney develops severe neurological symptoms
NDT Advance Access published on May 15, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2017-2019; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl239 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Oanh H. D. Thang, Elisabeth H. Jaspars, and Piet M. ter Wee

Necrotizing mastitis caused by calciphylaxis
NDT Advance Access published on March 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2020-2021; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl135 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Emanuela Maddalena, Roberta Fenoglio, Donatella Bilucaglia, Elisabetta Mezza, Loredana Colla, Claudio Rabbia, and Giuseppe Paolo Segoloni

The long-term dialysis patient with purple-blue toes
NDT Advance Access published on April 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2022-2023; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl136 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Imre Boncz, Andor Sebestyén, and István Pintér

Public–private partnership in Hungarian dialysis care
NDT Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2024-2025; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl156 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Boleslaw Rutkowski

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2025; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl157 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ondrej Viklicky, Eva Pokorna, and Stefan Vitko On behalf of the Board of the Transplant Society

Commentary on the highlights of the epidemiology of renal replacement therapy in Central and Eastern Europe
NDT Advance Access published on May 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2025-2026; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl258 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B. Rutkowski

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on May 30, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2026; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

B. Dieriks, A. Hoorens, K. Vanden Houte, and D. Verbeelen

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and mesangio-capillary glomerulonephritis in an elderly patient
NDT Advance Access published on May 10, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2027; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl074 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Hung, Carla A. Wood, Viktoria Woronik, José Mauro Vieira, Jr, and Rui Toledo Barros

Protein-losing gastroenteropathy in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome simulating nephrotic syndrome
NDT Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2027-2028; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl043 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Gersch, Kerim Mutig, Sebastian Bachmann, Satish Kumar, Xiaosen Ouyang, and Richard Johnson

Is salt-wasting the long awaited answer to the hyperuricaemia seen in uromodulin storage diseases?
NDT Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2028-2029; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfk081 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy B. L. Ho and James H. Hull

Tests for latent tuberculosis
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2029; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl001 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Karl Jacobsen, Peter Rossing, and Hans-Henrik Parving

Impact of renin angiotensin system blockade on night to day blood pressure ratio in diabetic nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2030-2031; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl012 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vinod Kumar Audimoolam and Sunil Bhandari

Acute interstitial nephritis induced by glucosamine
NDT Advance Access published on February 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2031; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl025 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guillermo J. Rosa-Diez, Roberto G. Lambertini, Oscar- Peralta, Luis H. Diodato, Salomón L. Algranati, and Ricardo D. García-Mónaco

Transhepatic venous access as an alternative for Tesio catheter in the case of a patient on haemodialysis with antiphospholipid syndrome
NDT Advance Access published on February 7, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2031-2033; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl020 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Akishi Momose, Megumi Tsushima, Hiroshi Mizuno, Satoshi Kajihara, Hisao Saitoh, Tsuneyasu Mikuni, Yoshikazu Tonosaki, Takashi Kazi, and Tomihisa Funyu

Impact of upper extremity abduction on arteriovenous fistula (AVF) blood flow
NDT Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2033-2034; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfk065 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Righetti, G. M. Ferrario, P. Serbelloni, S. Milani, and A. Tommasi

Homocysteine reduction rate in internal haemodiafiltration—a comparison with other mixed dialysis therapies
NDT Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2034-2035; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl077 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alpaslan Ersoy

Antioxidant treatment in dialysis patients— importance of ferritin
NDT Advance Access published on February 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2035-2036; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl050 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincenzo Sepe, Gabriella Adamo, Maria Grazia Giuliano, Grazia Soccio, Carmelo Libetta, and Antonio Dal Canton

High-dose folic acid supplements and responsiveness to rHu-EPO in HD patients
NDT Advance Access published on February 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2036; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl052 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ajay Gupta, Hua Mi, Caroline Wroe, Brian Jaques, and David Talbot

Fatal Candida famata peritonitis complicating sclerosing peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient
NDT Advance Access published on February 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2036-2037; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl040 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kay Herbrig, Frank Pistrosch, Peter Gross, and Catrin Palm

Resumption of peritoneal dialysis after transcutaneous treatment of a peritoneal leakage using fibrin glue
NDT Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2037-2038; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl080 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sigrun Friesecke, Peter Abel, Matthias Kraft, Andreas Gerner, and Soeren Runge

Combined renal replacement therapy for severe metformin-induced lactic acidosis
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2038-2039; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl011 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sven Teschner, Marcel Geyer, Jochen Wilpert, Eckhard Schwertfeger, Thomas Schenk, Gerd Walz, and Johannes Donauer

Remission of polyomavirus-induced graft nephropathy treated with low-dose leflunomide
NDT Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2039-2040; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl032 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Izumi Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Jun Mitome, Yudo Tanno, Naohiko Katoh, Keitaro Yokoyama, and Tatsuo Hosoya

Successful living-related kidney transplantation in hereditary renal hypouricaemia
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2041; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfk103 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congress Report:

Momir Polenakovic and Goce Spasovski

The dream is now a reality—The seventh Congress of the Balkan Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs (BANTAO) Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 8–11 September 2005
NDT Advance Access published on June 1, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2042; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl304 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Fadi Fakhouri, Benjamin Deroure, and Aurélie Hummel

A new treatment for TTP?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2043; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl349 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zaki Mohamed, Torsten Schöneberg, Tareq Al Ajrawi, Abdul Nasser Al Said, Sangkuhl Katrin, and Holger Römpler

Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, thiazide treatment and renal cell carcinoma
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2043-2044; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl378 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris M. Laing, Rhys Roberts, Shaun Summers, Jon S. Friedland, Liz Lighstone, and Robert J. Unwin

Distal renal tubular acidosis in association with HIV infection and AIDS
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2044; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl350 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A new treatment for polyateritis nodosa
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2044; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl377 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 2045-2046. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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