Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: i; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm609 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Note

Norbert Lameire

Editorial Note
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2737; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm569 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Comments

Iain C. Macdougall, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, and Francesco Locatelli

Latest US KDOQI Anaemia Guidelines update—what are the implications for Europe?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2738-2742; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm562 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Suetonia C. Palmer, Jonathan C. Craig, and Giovanni F. M. Strippoli

Sevelamer: a promising but unproven drug
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2742-2745; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm561 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter G. Blake

Randomized controlled trials in PD
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2746-2748; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm173 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wolfgang Jelkmann

Recombinant EPO production—points the nephrologist should know
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2749-2753; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm392 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nadia Berkane, Guillaume Lefevre, and Alexandre Hertig

Angiogenic factors in preeclampsia: so complex, so simple?
NDT Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2753-2756; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm429 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassane Izzedine, Alain Baumelou, and Gilbert Deray

Acute renal failure in HIV patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2757-2762; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm404 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Reviews

Marie Ludlow, Grant Luxton, and Timothy Mathew

Effects of fluoridation of community water supplies for people with chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on July 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2763-2767; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm477 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Moses Elisaf, and Haralampos J. Milionis

Multifactorial intervention in metabolic syndrome targeting at prevention of chronic kidney disease—ready for prime time?
NDT Advance Access published on August 2, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2768-2774; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm525 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology

Takahiko Nakagawa, Mark Segal, Byron Croker, and Richard J. Johnson

A breakthrough in diabetic nephropathy: the role of endothelial dysfunction
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2775-2777; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm380 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tammo Ostendorf, An S. De Vriese, and Jürgen Floege

Renal side effects of anti-VEGF therapy in man: a new test system
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2778-2780; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hypothesis

Get checked abstract Jorge Cerdá, Magdalena Cerdá, Patricia Kilcullen, and Jayne Prendergast

In severe acute kidney injury, a higher serum creatinine is paradoxically associated with better patient survival
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2781-2784; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm395 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature

Pietro Ravani, Patrick S. Parfrey, Elizabeth Dicks, and Brendan J. Barrett

Clinical research of kidney diseases II: problems of study design
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2785-2794; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm433 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short Communication

Get checked abstract Wolfgang Altermann, Gerald Schlaf, Anita Rothhoff, and Barbara Seliger

High variation of individual soluble serum CD30 levels of pre-transplantation patients: sCD30 a feasible marker for prediction of kidney allograft rejection?
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2795-2799; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm397 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Byung Ha Lee, Jung Eun Lee, Kwang Woong Lee, Hye Yeong Nam, Hyun Jung Jeon, Young Ju Sung, Jong Sung Kim, Hyun Jung Lim, Jong-sang Park, Jai Young Ko, and Dae Joong Kim

Coating with paclitaxel improves graft survival in a porcine model of haemodialysis graft stenosis
NDT Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2800-2804; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm438 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

II. Scientific Papers

Original Articles: Experimental Nephrology

Get checked abstract Leszek Dobrowolski, Elzbieta Kompanowska-Jezierska, Agnieszka Walkowska, and Janusz Sadowski

Sodium intake determines the role of adenosine A2 receptors in control of renal medullary perfusion in the rat
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2805-2809; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm322 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Cristina Esteva-Font, Elisabet Ars, Elena Guillen-Gomez, Josep Maria Campistol, Laia Sanz, Wladimiro Jiménez, Mark Alan Knepper, Ferran Torres, Roser Torra, José Aurelio Ballarín, and Patricia Fernández-Llama

Ciclosporin-induced hypertension is associated with increased sodium transporter of the loop of Henle (NKCC2)
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2810-2816; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm390 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nina Ternes, Barbara Scheiber-Mojdehkar, Grit Landgraf, Hans Goldenberg, and Brigitte Sturm

Iron availability and complex stability of iron hydroxyethyl starch and iron dextran—a comparative in vitro study with liver cells and macrophages
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2824-2830; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm315 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gloria Rashid, Jacques Bernheim, Janice Green, and Sydney Benchetrit

Parathyroid hormone stimulates the endothelial nitric oxide synthase through protein kinase A and C pathways
NDT Advance Access published on June 2, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2831-2837; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm269 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yuuki Ro, Chieko Hamada, Masanori Inaba, Hiroaki Io, Kayo Kaneko, and Yasuhiko Tomino

Inhibitory effects of matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor ONO-4817 on morphological alterations in chlorhexidine gluconate-induced peritoneal sclerosis rats
NDT Advance Access published on June 2, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2838-2848; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm323 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Clinical Nephrology

Get checked abstract George Thomas, Maria C. Rojas, Scott K. Epstein, Ethan M. Balk, Orfeas Liangos, and Bertrand L. Jaber

Insulin therapy and acute kidney injury in critically ill patients—a systematic review
NDT Advance Access published on June 29, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2849-2855; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm401 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcello Tonelli, Natasha Wiebe, Bruce Culleton, Helen Lee, Scott Klarenbach, Fiona Shrive, Braden Manns, and for the Alberta Kidney Disease Network

Systematic review of the clinical efficacy and safety of sevelamer in dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2856-2866; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm421 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Braden Manns, Scott Klarenbach, Helen Lee, Bruce Culleton, Fiona Shrive, and Marcello Tonelli

Economic evaluation of sevelamer in patients with end-stage renal disease
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2867-2878; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm367 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ajay P. Sharma, Raj K. Sharma, Rakesh Kapoor, Alik Kornecki, Saubhik Sural, and Guido Filler

Incomplete distal renal tubular acidosis affects growth in children
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2879-2885; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm307 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tessa J. M. Wijnhoven, Joyce M. Geelen, Marinka Bakker, Joost F. M. Lensen, Angelique L. W. M. M. Rops, Andrea B. Kramer, Gerjan Navis, Mabel J. W. van den Hoven, Johan van der Vlag, Jo H. M. Berden, Jack F. M. Wetzels, Lambert P. W. J. van den Heuvel, Leo A. H. Monnens, and Toin H. van Kuppevelt

Adult and paediatric patients with minimal change nephrotic syndrome show no major alterations in glomerular expression of sulphated heparan sulphate domains
NDT Advance Access published on May 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2886-2893; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm301 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jagbir Gill, Rhonda Malyuk, Ognjenka Djurdjev, and Adeera Levin

Use of GFR equations to adjust drug doses in an elderly multi-ethnic group—a cautionary tale
NDT Advance Access published on June 16, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2894-2899; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm289 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ferruh Artunc and Teut Risler

Serum erythropoietin concentrations and responses to anaemia in patients with or without chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2900-2908; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm316 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nora Voormolen, Marlies Noordzij, Diana C. Grootendorst, Ivo Beetz, Yvo W. Sijpkens, Jeannette G. van Manen, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, Roel M. Huisman, Raymond T. Krediet, Friedo W. Dekker, and the PREPARE study group

High plasma phosphate as a risk factor for decline in renal function and mortality in pre-dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on May 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2909-2916; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm286 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dan-Tzu Lin-Tan, Ja-Liang Lin, Tzung-Hai Yen, Kuan-Hsing Chen, and Yen-Lin Huang

Long-term outcome of repeated lead chelation therapy in progressive non-diabetic chronic kidney diseases
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2924-2931; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm342 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kurt J. A. Vanhoutte, Coby Laarakkers, Elena Marchiori, Peter Pickkers, Jack F. M. Wetzels, Johannes L. Willems, Lambert P. van den Heuvel, Frans G. M. Russel, and Rosalinde Masereeuw

Biomarker discovery with SELDI-TOF MS in human urine associated with early renal injury: evaluation with computational analytical tools
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2932-2943; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm170 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Dialysis and Transplantation

Get checked abstract Marlies Noordzij, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, Willem J. Bos, Friedo W. Dekker, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Raymond T. Krediet, Johanna C. Korevaar, and for the NECOSAD Study Group

Disturbed mineral metabolism is associated with muscle and skin complaints in a prospective cohort of dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2944-2949; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm319 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carlo Alberto Lodi, Charles Estridge, and Carlo Ghidini

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of an oscillometric device for monitoring blood pressure in dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2950-2961; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm288 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sunny Eloot, Annemieke Dhondt, Jan Vierendeels, Dirk De Wachter, Pascal Verdonck, and Raymond Vanholder

Temperature and concentration distribution within the Genius® dialysate container
NDT Advance Access published on June 13, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2962-2969; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm356 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mariann D. Churchwell, Deborah A. Pasko, Imad F. Btaiche, Jinesh C. Jain, and Bruce A. Mueller

Trace element removal during in vitro and in vivo continuous haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2970-2977; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm352 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pavlina Richtrova, Karel Opatrny, Jr, Ladislav Vit, Frantisek Sefrna, and Radek Perlik

The AN69 ST haemodialysis membrane under conditions of two different extracorporeal circuit rinse protocols—a comparison of thrombogenicity parameters
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2978-2984; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm137 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Benjamin Ko, Amandeep Khurana, Judy Spencer, Barb Scott, Marsha Hahn, and Mary Hammes

Religious beliefs and quality of life in an American inner-city haemodialysis population
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2985-2990; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm341 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kannaiyan S. Rabindranath, James Adams, Tariq Z. Ali, Conal Daly, Luke Vale, and Alison M. MacLeod

Automated vs continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
NDT Advance Access published on September 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2991-2998; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm515 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Per Ivarsen, Johan V. Povlsen, and Jens Dam Jensen

Increasing fill volume reduces cardiac performance in peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 2999-3004; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm284 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kathryn J. Wiggins, Stephen P. McDonald, Fiona G. Brown, Johan B. Rosman, and David W. Johnson

High membrane transport status on peritoneal dialysis is not associated with reduced survival following transfer to haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on June 2, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3005-3012; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm324 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christine White, Ayub Akbari, Naser Hussain, Laurent Dinh, Guido Filler, Nathalie Lepage, and Greg A. Knoll

Chronic kidney disease stage in renal transplantation—classification using cystatin C and creatinine-based equations
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3013-3020; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm318 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francis Verbeke, Wim Van Biesen, Patrick Peeters, Luc M. Van Bortel, and Raymond C. Vanholder

Arterial stiffness and wave reflections in renal transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3021-3027; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm379 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jaime M. Beecroft, Jeffrey Zaltzman, Ramesh Prasad, Galo Meliton, and Patrick J. Hanly

Impact of kidney transplantation on sleep apnoea in patients with end-stage renal disease
NDT Advance Access published on June 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3028-3033; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm309 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nina Zitt, Barbara Kollerits, Ulrich Neyer, Walter Mark, Dorothea Heininger, Gert Mayer, Florian Kronenberg, and Karl Lhotta

Cigarette smoking and chronic allograft nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on May 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3034-3039; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm275 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract A. A. Housawi, A. Young, N. Boudville, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, N. Muirhead, F. Rehman, C. R. Parikh, A. Al-Obaidli, A. El-Triki, and A. X. Garg for the Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network

Transplant professionals vary in the long-term medical risks they communicate to potential living kidney donors: an international survey
NDT Advance Access published on May 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3040-3045; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm305 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

III. Clinical Reports

Brief Reports

Get checked abstract Konstantinos N. Fragoulis, Konstantinos Z. Vardakas, and Matthew E. Falagas

Open access World Wide Web resources on urogenital infections
NDT Advance Access published on June 16, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3046-3047; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm388 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jochen Wilpert, Marcel Geyer, Przemyslaw Pisarski, Oliver Drognitz, Christian Schulz-Huotari, Anette Gropp, Heike Goebel, Peter Gerke, Sven Teschner, Gerd Walz, and Johannes Donauer

On-demand strategy as an alternative to conventionally scheduled post-transplant immunoadsorptions after ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3048-3051; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm460 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kevin J. Martin on behalf of the Epoetin Delta 3001 Study Group

Epoetin delta in the management of renal anaemia: results of a 6-month study
NDT Advance Access published on July 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3052-3054; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm490 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Technical Notes

Get checked abstract O. M. Steinmetz, U. Panzer, S. Fehr, C. Meyer-Schwesinger, R. A. K. Stahl, and U. O. Wenzel

A pitfall of glomerular sieving: profibrotic and matrix proteins derive from the Bowman's capsule and not the glomerular tuft in rats with renovascular hypertension
NDT Advance Access published on July 19, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3055-3060; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm298 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sunny Eloot, Jean-Yves De Vos, Remi Hombrouckx, and Pascal Verdonck

How much is catheter flow influenced by the use of closed luer lock access devices?
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3061-3064; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm314 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Patrick Peeters, Marleen Praet, Bruno Van Vlem, Jean-Marie Naeyaert, and Raymond Vanholder

End-stage disease of native kidneys in a patient with biopsy-proven Arndt-Gottron scleromyxoedema and recurrence in the transplanted kidney
NDT Advance Access published on July 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3065-3069; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm354 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Labriola, Kar in Dahan, and Yves Pirson

Outcome of kidney transplantation in familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3070-3073; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm362 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IV. Educational Features

Teaching Point

Alexander Woywodt, Susan Hellweg, Anke Schwarz, Roland M. Schaefer, and Michael Mengel

A wild zebra chase
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3074-3077; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm462 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nephroquiz

Claudia Sommerer, Rüdiger Waldherr, and Christian Morath

Rapid deterioration of renal function in a long-term allograft recipient with recurrent IgA nephritis—is it the only cause?
NDT Advance Access published on July 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3079-3081; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm506 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology

Meryem Benjelloun, Faissal Tarrass, Laila Alaoui, Ghislaine Medkouri, Khadija Hachim, Mohamed Benghanem Gharbi, and Benyounes Ramdani

Marked facial enlargement in secondary hyperparathyroidism
NDT Advance Access published on July 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3082-3083; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm473 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bilal Karim Siddiqui, Purvesh Patel, Armen Margaryan, Mohammed Mansour, and Cindy Baskin

An unusual case of endocarditis in a dialysis patient
NDT Advance Access published on July 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3084-3085; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm472 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

V. Varia

Letters and Replies

Hans-Dietrich Polaschegg

History of isothermic dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on June 16, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3086; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm357 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Pizzarelli

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on June 16, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3087; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm359 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mario Cozzolino, Andrea Galassi, and Diego Brancaccio

Cinacalcet, paricalcitol, or both?
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3087; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm423 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Dolores Arenas

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3087-3088; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm425 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tetsuji Fujita

Significance of endotoxaemia in chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on April 23, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3088-3089; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl829 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Simone Goncalves, Andrea E. Stinghen, and Miguel C. Riella

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on April 23, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3089; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm200 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rajiv Agarwal

Home BP for assessing haemodialysis hypertension
NDT Advance Access published on July 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3089-3090; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm419 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hidekazu Moriya

Reply
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3090; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm756 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters

Françoise Isnard, Patrick Tilleul, Jean-Philippe Laporte, Patrice Chevallier, Arnaud Pigneux, Antoine Lafuma, Lamine Mahi, and Gilbert Deray

A benefit for renal function after early switch to liposomal amphotericin B from conventional formulation in empirical antifungal treatment
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3090-3091; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm394 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edwina A. Brown, Max Dratwa, and Johan V. Povlsen

Assisted peritoneal dialysis—an evolving dialysis modality
NDT Advance Access published on June 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3091-3092; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm399 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Femke Waanders, Else van den Berg, Casper Schalkwijk, Harry van Goor, and Gerjan Navis

Preparation of advanced glycation end products in vitro
NDT Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3093-3094; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm398 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Herwig Pieringer, Bernhard Schmekal, Othmar Janko, and Georg Biesenbach

Treatment with corticosteroids does not seem to benefit nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
NDT Advance Access published on June 30, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3094; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm435 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

Announcements
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3095-3097; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm608 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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