Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: i; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm894 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Comments

Oxana Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya

Molecular pathogenesis of ADPKD and development of targeted therapeutic options
NDT Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3367-3370; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm426 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anja Roos, Mohamed R. Daha, Johannes van Pelt, and Stefan P. Berger

Mannose-binding lectin and the kidney
NDT Advance Access published on August 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3370-3377; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm524 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michel Jadoul

Towards the prevention of bone fractures in dialysed patients?
NDT Advance Access published on November 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3377-3380; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm508 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Reviews

Gerald Cohen, Griet Glorieux, Paul Thornalley, Eva Schepers, Natalie Meert, Joachim Jankowski, Vera Jankowski, Angel Argiles, Björn Anderstam, Philippe Brunet, Claire Cerini, Laetitia Dou, Reinhold Deppisch, Bart Marescau, Ziad Massy, Alessandra Perna, Jana Raupachova, Mariano Rodriguez, Bernd Stegmayr, Raymond Vanholder, and Walter H. Hörl for the European Uremic Toxin Work Group (EUTox)

Review on uraemic toxins III: recommendations for handling uraemic retention solutes in vitro—towards a standardized approach for research on uraemia
NDT Advance Access published on August 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3381-3390; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm210 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Boor, Katarína Sebeková, Tammo Ostendorf, and Jürgen Floege

Treatment targets in renal fibrosis
NDT Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3391-3407; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm393 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Petri Aaltonen and Harry Holthöfer

The nephrin-based slit diaphragm: new insight into the signalling platform identifies targets for therapy
NDT Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3408-3410; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm403 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology

Carsten A. Wagner, Jürg Biber, and Heini Murer

What goes in must come out—the small intestine modulates renal phosphate excretion
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3411-3412; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm554 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Historical Note

Get checked abstract Mohammad R. Ardalan, Mohammadali M. Shoja, R. Shane Tubbs, and Garabed Eknoyan

Diseases of the kidney in medieval Persia—the Hidayat of Al-Akawayni
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3413-3421; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm494 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Feature

Pietro Ravani, Patrick Parfrey, Veeresh Gadag, Fabio Malberti, and Brendan Barrett

Clinical research of kidney diseases III: Principles of regression and modelling
NDT Advance Access published on November 19, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3422-3430; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm777 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

II. Scientific Papers

Original Articles: Experimental Nephrology

Get checked abstract Dirk Bokemeyer, Darius Panek, Masashi Kitahara, James M. Trzaskos, Christa E. Müller, Jörg Hockemeyer, Uta Kunter, Peter Boor, Jürgen Floege, Herbert J. Kramer, and Tammo Ostendorf

The map kinase ERK regulates renal activity of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 in experimental glomerulonephritis
NDT Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3431-3441; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm428 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Laura De Petris, Keith A. Hruska, Santina Chiechio, and Helen Liapis

Bone morphogenetic protein-7 delays podocyte injury due to high glucose
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3442-3450; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm503 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Masayuki Iyoda, Kelly L. Hudkins, Tomasz A. Wietecha, Miriam C. Banas, Shunhua Guo, Gang Liu, Li Wang, Jolanta Kowalewska, and Charles E. Alpers

All-trans-retinoic acid aggravates cryoglobulin-associated membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in mice
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3451-3461; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm502 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Clinical Nephrology

Get checked abstract Meindert J. Crop, Ewout J. Hoorn, Jan Lindemans, and Robert Zietse

Hypokalaemia and subsequent hyperkalaemia in hospitalized patients
NDT Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3471-3477; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm471 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ettore Bartoli, Francesca Guidetti, and Luca Bergamasco

Estimating excess glucose, sodium and water deficits in non-ketotic hyperglycaemia
NDT Advance Access published on July 4, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3478-3486; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm427 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ryszard Grenda, Elke Wühl, Mieczyslaw Litwin, Roman Janas, Joanna Sladowska, Klaus Arbeiter, Ulla Berg, Alberto Caldas-Afonso, Michel Fischbach, Otto Mehls, Peter Sallay, Franz Schaefer, and for the ESCAPE Trial group

Urinary excretion of endothelin-1 (ET-1), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF₁₆₅) in paediatric chronic kidney diseases: results of the ESCAPE trial
NDT Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3487-3494; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm300 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carl H. Cramer, II, Michelle Mills, Rudolph P. Valentini, William E. Smoyer, Hillary Haftel, and Patrick D. Brophy

Clinical presentation and outcome in a cohort of paediatric patients with membranous lupus nephritis
NDT Advance Access published on July 29, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3495-3500; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm491 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Konstantinos Giannakakis, Laura Massella, Daniele Grassetti, Francesco Dotta, Marie Perez, and Andrea Onetti Muda

Type VII collagen in Alport syndrome
NDT Advance Access published on August 1, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3501-3507; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm481 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sofia Lionaki, Susan L. Hogan, Ronald J. Falk, Melanie S. Joy, Hyunsook Chin, Caroline E. Jennette, J. Charles Jennette, and Patrick H. Nachman

Association between thyroid disease and its treatment with ANCA small-vessel vasculitis: a case–control study
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3508-3515; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm493 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonio Pasquariello, Maurizio Innocenti, Valentina Batini, Giovanna Pasquariello, Sara Beati, Stefano Rindi, Sabrina Paoletti, and Vincenzo Panichi

Theoretical calculation of optimal depth in the percutaneous native kidney biopsy to drastically reduce bleeding complications and sample inadequacy for histopathological diagnosis
NDT Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3516-3520; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm272 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francesco Addabbo, Francesca Mallamaci, Daniela Leonardis, Rocco Tripepi, Giovanni Tripepi, Michael S. Goligorsky, and Carmine Zoccali

Searching for biomarker patterns characterizing carotid atherosclerotic burden in patients with reduced renal function
NDT Advance Access published on July 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3521-3526; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm418 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcelo M. Lemos, Alessandra D. B. Jancikic, Fabiana M. R. Sanches, Dejaldo M. Christofalo, Sérgio A. Ajzen, Márcio H. Miname, Raul D. Santos, Fernando C. Fachini, Aluízio B. Carvalho, Sérgio A. Draibe, and Maria Eugênia F. Canziani

Pulse wave velocity—a useful tool for cardiovascular surveillance in pre-dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3527-3532; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm484 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Dialysis and Transplantation

Get checked abstract Murat Sungur, Emel Eryuksel, Sinan Yavas, Azra Bihorac, A. Joseph Layon, and Lawrence Caruso

Exit of catheter lock solutions from double lumen acute haemodialysis catheters—an in vitro study
NDT Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3533-3537; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm452 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonio Alberto Lopes, Stacey J. Elder, Nancy Ginsberg, Vittorio E. Andreucci, José Miguel Cruz, Shunichi Fukuhara, Donna L. Mapes, Akira Saito, Ronald L. Pisoni, Rajiv Saran, and Friedrich K. Port

Lack of appetite in haemodialysis patients—associations with patient characteristics, indicators of nutritional status and outcomes in the international DOPPS
NDT Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3538-3546; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm453 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ezio Movilli, Paola Gaggia, Roberto Zubani, Corrado Camerini, Valerio Vizzardi, Giovanni Parrinello, Silvana Savoldi, Marie Stephanie Fischer, Francesco Londrino, and Giovanni Cancarini

Association between high ultrafiltration rates and mortality in uraemic patients on regular haemodialysis. A 5-year prospective observational multicentre study
NDT Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3547-3552; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm466 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jirí Horácek, Sylvie Dusilová Sulková, Magdalena Fortová, Frantisek Lopot, Marta Kalousová, Lubos Sobotka, Jirí Chaloupka, Vladimír Tesar, Ales Zák, and Tomás Zima

Resting energy expenditure and thermal balance during isothermic and thermoneutral haemodialysis—heat production does not explain increased body temperature during haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on August 23, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3553-3560; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm436 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Akber Saifullah, Bruce A. Watkins, Chandan Saha, Yong Li, Sharon M. Moe, and Allon N. Friedman

Oral fish oil supplementation raises blood omega-3 levels and lowers C-reactive protein in haemodialysis patients—a pilot study
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3561-3567; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm422 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David M. Spiegel, Paolo Raggi, Gerard Smits, and Geoffrey A. Block

Factors associated with mortality in patients new to haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3568-3572; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm424 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michèle Kessler, Faiez Zannad, Philippe Lehert, Jean Pierre Grünfeld, Christian Thuilliez, Alain Leizorovicz, and Philippe Lechat for the FOSIDIAL Investigators

Predictors of cardiovascular events in patients with end-stage renal disease: an analysis from the Fosinopril in Dialysis study
NDT Advance Access published on July 4, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3573-3579; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm417 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maria Dolores Navarro, Julia Carracedo, Rafael Ramírez, Juan Antonio Madueño, Ana Merino, Mariano Rodríguez, Alejandro Martín-Malo, and Pedro Aljama

Bacterial DNA prolongs the survival of inflamed mononuclear cells in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3580-3585; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm414 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Matthias Girndt, Peter Stenvinkel, Christof Ulrich, Jonas Axelsson, Louise Nordfors, Peter Barany, Juan Jesus Carrero, Gunnar H. Heine, Harald Kaul, and Hans Köhler

Influence of cytokine gene polymorphisms on erythropoetin dose requirements in chronic haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on September 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3586-3592; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm244 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Annemieke M. Coester, Dirk G. Struijk, Watske Smit, Dirk R. de Waart, and Raymond T. Krediet

The cellular contribution to effluent potassium and its relation to free water transport during peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on July 29, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3593-3600; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm497 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Giusto Viglino, Loris Neri, Sandro Alloatti, Gianfranca Cabiddu, Roberto Cocchi, Aurelio Limido, Giancarlo Marinangeli, Roberto Russo, Ugo Teatini, and Francesco Paolo Schena

Analysis of the factors conditioning the diffusion of peritoneal dialysis in Italy
NDT Advance Access published on June 30, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3601-3605; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm416 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ju-Yeh Yang, Jenq-Wen Huang, Chih-Kang Chiang, Chun-Chun Pan, Kwan-Dun Wu, Tun-Jun Tsai, and Wan-Yu Chen

Higher plasma interleukin-18 levels associated with poor quality of sleep in peritoneal dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3606-3609; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm231 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Uwe Pöge, Thomas Gerhardt, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Holger Palmedo, Hans-Ulrich Klehr, Tilman Sauerbruch, and Rainer P. Woitas

Can modifications of the MDRD formula improve the estimation of glomerular filtration rate in renal allograft recipients?
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3610-3615; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm282 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mads Hornum, Christopher M. Burton, Martin Iversen, Peter Hovind, Linda Hilsted, and Bo Feldt-Rasmussen

Decline in ⁵¹Cr-labelled EDTA measured glomerular filtration rate following lung transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on August 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3616-3622; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm478 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Madhukar Chelamcharla, Basit Javaid, Bradley C. Baird, and Alexander S. Goldfarb-Rumyantzev

The outcome of renal transplantation among systemic lupus erythematosus patients
NDT Advance Access published on July 19, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3623-3630; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm459 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stefan M. Weiner, Lorenz Sellin, Oliver Vonend, Peter Schenker, Nikolaus J. Buchner, Markus Flecken, Richard Viebahn, and Lars C. Rump

Pneumonitis associated with sirolimus: clinical characteristics, risk factors and outcome—a single-centre experience and review of the literature
NDT Advance Access published on July 4, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3631-3637; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm420 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wai-Ping Yau, Anantharaman Vathsala, Huei-Xin Lou, and Eli Chan

Is a standard fixed dose of mycophenolate mofetil ideal for all patients?
NDT Advance Access published on July 19, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3638-3645; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm468 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract João Batista Douverny, José Carlos Baptista-Silva, José Osmar Medina Pestana, and Ricardo Sesso

Importance of renal mass on graft function outcome after 12 months of living donor kidney transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on August 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3646-3651; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm487 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

III. Clinical Reports

Case Reports

James C. Lee, Ross S. Francis, Steve Smith, Richard Lee, and Coralie Bingham

Renal failure complicating myeloma in pregnancy
NDT Advance Access published on September 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3652-3655; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm277 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Géraldine D’Ythurbide, Cécile Goujard, Frédéric Méchaï, Arnaud Blanc, Bernard Charpentier, and Renaud Snanoudj

Fanconi syndrome and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus associated with didanosine therapy in HIV infection: a case report and literature review
NDT Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3656-3659; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm467 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angelika Beckhoff, Ingrid Steffen, Pierre Sandoz, Hans H. Hirsch, and Stefan Schaub

Relapsing severe anaemia due to primary parvovirus B19 infection after renal transplantation: a case report and review of the literature
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3660-3663; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm531 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teaching Point

Christine Materne, Stefan Porubsky, Jens Gerth, Hermann-Josef Gröne, and Gunter Wolf

Histiocytosis X and renal insufficiency
NDT Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3664-3667; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm299 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IV. Educational Features

Images in Nephrology

Mathieu Jablonski, Ahmed Khairoune, and Frank Martinez

Giant aneurysm of an endogenous arteriovenous fistula
NDT Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3668; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm611 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

V. Varia

Letters

Marco Gonella, Giovanni Calabrese, Antonio Mazzotta, and Giuseppe Vagelli

Uraemic pruritus in RDT patients: is it still a problem?
NDT Advance Access published on August 23, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3669; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm570 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucio Manenti and Augusto Vaglio

Gabapentin use in chronic uraemic itch is in line with emerging pathogenetic hypothesis
NDT Advance Access published on February 28, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3669-3670; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm039 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacoline W. Brinkman, Hiddo Lambers Heerspink, Dick de Zeeuw, Ronald T. Gansevoort, and Stephan J. L. Bakker

Urinary pH affects albumin concentrations after prolonged frozen storage
NDT Advance Access published on January 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3670; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl803 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elham Asgari, Kate Bramham, Hasan Shehata, and David Makanjuola

Successful pregnancy in a patient with end-stage renal failure secondary to HIV nephropathy on peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on September 11, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3671; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm280 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stanley Shaldon

Serendipity
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3671; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm489 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wim Terryn, Dominique Benoit, Ann Van Loo, Patrick Peeters, Hans Schepkens, Kristof Cokelaere, and Raymond Vanholder

Goodpasture's syndrome associated with autoimmune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura—an unusual case
NDT Advance Access published on July 19, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3672-3673; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm483 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maurizio Bossola, Stefania Giungi, Luigi Tazza, and Giovanna Luciani

Does desacyl ghrelin contribute to uraemic anorexia?
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3673-3674; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm505 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fernando A. Vinhal, Sandra R. Afonso-Cardoso, Adriano G. Silva, Cristiano G. Pereira, Waldir Sousa, Silvia M. Botelho, Joao B. S. Souza, Wellinton D. Silva, Janethe D. O. Pena, and Maria A. Souza

A typical presentation of cutaneous leishmaniasis after renal transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on July 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3674; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm520 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesca Pansini, Carmen Bonifati, Carlo Manno, and Francesco Paolo Schena

Rituximab induces complete remission in a case of membranous nephropathy associated with hepatitis C virus- related infection
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3674-3676; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm514 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Belén Ponte, Maria Teresa Tenorio, Roberto Hiller, Angel Candela, and Fernando Liaño

Continuous dialysis by gravity through the filter of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3676-3677; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm533 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Levent Oguzkurt, Ugur Ozkan, Dilek Torun, and Fahri Tercan

Does a fibrin sheath formed around a catheter embolize upon removal of the catheter?
NDT Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3677-3679; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm536 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Csaba P. Kovesdy and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

Serum phosphorus and the risk of progression of chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3679; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm539 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandra Lefrancq, Ouarda El-Khattabi, Naima Deggouj, Michel Heusterspreute, Olivier Devuyst, and Alexandre Persu

Early complicated hypertension, hypokalaemia and salt taste abnormality: a possible link?
NDT Advance Access published on August 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3680; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm543 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata

Pietro Ravani, Patrick S. Parfrey, Bryan Curtis, and Brendan J. Barrett

Clinical research of kidney diseases 1: researchable questions and valid answers
NDT Advance Access published on November 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3681-3690; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm838 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harry Holthöfer

Molecular architecture of the glomerular slit diaphragm—lessons learnt for a better understanding of disease pathogenesis
NDT Advance Access published on October 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3691; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm732 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karin Moret, Charles H. Beerenhout, A. Warmold L. van den Wall Bake, Paul G. Gerlag, Frank M. van der Sande, Karel M. Leunissen, and Jeroen P. Kooman

Ionic dialysance and the assessment of Kt/V: the influence of different estimates of V on method agreement
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3692; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm810 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 3693-3694; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm802 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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