Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

In this issue

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: i-ii; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm262 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Comments

Anna Orient, Ágnes Donkó, Attila Szabó, Thomas L. Leto, and Miklós Geiszt

Novel sources of reactive oxygen species in the human body
NDT Advance Access published on March 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1281-1288; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm077 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. H. Jan Danser, Wendy W. Batenburg, and Joep H. M. van Esch

Prorenin and the (pro)renin receptor—an update
NDT Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1288-1292; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl846 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology

Gerhard A. Müller, Claudia A. Müller, and Hassan Dihazi

Clinical proteomics—on the long way from bench to bedside?
NDT Advance Access published on February 13, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1297-1300; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl806 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jordan D. Dimitrov, Jagadeesh Bayry, Sophie Sibéril, and Srini V. Kaveri

Sialylated therapeutic IgG: a sweet remedy for inflammatory diseases?
NDT Advance Access published on February 13, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1301-1304; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl847 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francois Verrey

WNK4, as thiazides, shuts off NaCl reabsorption to stimulate Na/K exchange
NDT Advance Access published on February 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1305-1308; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm010 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

II. Scientific Papers

Original Articles: Experimental Nephrology

Get checked abstract Óscar Álvarez-García, Enrique García-López, Julián Rodríguez, Helena Gil-Peña, Inés Molinos, Eduardo Carbajo-Pérez, and Fernando Santos

Administration of ghrelin to young uraemic rats increases food intake transiently, stimulates growth hormone secretion and does not improve longitudinal growth
NDT Advance Access published on February 22, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1309-1313; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl645 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maristela Lika Onozato, Akihiro Tojo, Naohiko Kobayashi, Atsuo Goto, Hiroaki Matsuoka, and Toshiro Fujita

Dual blockade of aldosterone and angiotensin II additively suppresses TGF-ß and NADPH oxidase in the hypertensive kidney
NDT Advance Access published on February 26, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1314-1322; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl780 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Peter Boor, Andrzej Konieczny, Luigi Villa, Uta Kunter, Claudia R.C. van Roeyen, William J. LaRochelle, Glennda Smithson, Sharon Arrol, Tammo Ostendorf, and Jürgen Floege

PDGF-D inhibition by CR002 ameliorates tubulointerstitial fibrosis following experimental glomerulonephritis
NDT Advance Access published on February 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1323-1331; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl691 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Clinical Nephrology

Get checked abstract Jayanthi Chandar, Carolyn Abitbol, Brenda Montané, and Gastón Zilleruelo

Angiotensin blockade as sole treatment for proteinuric kidney disease in children
NDT Advance Access published on February 13, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1332-1337; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl839 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jane C. Wilson, Han-Seung Yoon, Robert J. Walker, and Michael R. Eccles

A novel Cys1638Tyr NC1 domain substitution in 5(IV) collagen causes Alport syndrome with late onset renal failure without hearing loss or eye abnormalities
NDT Advance Access published on February 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1338-1346; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl793 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christoph Sucker, Gerd Ruediger Hetzel, Firuseh Farokhzad, Fieras Dahhan, Michael Schmitz, Christine Kurschat, Bernd Grabensee, Beate Maruhn-Debowski, Rainer Zotz, and Ruediger Scharf

Association of genotypes of thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitors with thrombotic microangiopathies—a pilot study
NDT Advance Access published on February 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1347-1350; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl753 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alfons Segarra, M Luisa Amoedo, Jose M Martinez Garcia, Salvador Pons, Manuel Praga, Elvira Izquierdo Garcia, Juan Carlos Alonso, Joan M. Gascó, L. Pou, and Luís Piera

Efficacy and safety of ‘rescue therapy’ with mycophenolate mofetil in resistant primary glomerulonephritis—A multicenter study
NDT Advance Access published on February 20, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1351-1360; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl805 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shinji Hagiwara, Shigeki Saima, Kousuke Negishi, Ryo Takeda, Naoko Miyauchi, Yurika Akiyama, Satoshi Horikoshi, and Yasuhiko Tomino

High incidence of renal failure in patients with aortic aneurysms
NDT Advance Access published on February 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1361-1368; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl779 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Benjamin Terrier, Yahsou Delmas, Aurélie Hummel, Claire Presne, Francois Glowacki, Bertrand Knebelmann, Christian Combe, Philippe Lesavre, Natacha Maillard, Laure-Hélène Noël, Natahlie Patey-Mariaud de Serre, Sylvie Nusbaum, Isabelle Radford, Agnès Buzyn, and Fadi Fakhouri

Post-allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation membranous nephropathy: clinical presentation, outcome and pathogenic aspects
NDT Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1369-1376; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl795 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Dialysis and Transplantation

Get checked abstract Maurizio Postorino, Carmen Marino, Giovanni Tripepi, and Carmine Zoccali on behalf of the Calabrian Registry of Dialysis and Transplantation

Prognostic value of the New York Heart Association classification in end-stage renal disease
NDT Advance Access published on February 1, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1377-1382; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl813 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Emmanuel Villar, Pascale Boissonnat, Laurent Sebbag, Achraf Hendawy, Rémi Cahen, Pierre Trolliet, Michel Labeeuw, René Ecochard, and Claire Pouteil-Noble

Poor prognosis of heart transplant patients with end-stage renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1383-1389; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl811 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Atul Sajgure, Arindam Choudhury, Ziauddin Ahmed, and Devasmita Choudhury

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors maintain polytetrafluroethylene graft patency
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1390-1398; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl821 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Naveen C. Reddy, Stephen M. Korbet, Julie A. Wozniak, Sheri L. Floramo, and Edmund J. Lewis

Staff-assisted nursing home haemodialysis: patient characteristics and outcomes
NDT Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1399-1406; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl809 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yukio Maruyama, Masaaki Nakayama, Kazunobu Yoshimura, Hirofumi Nakano, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Keitaro Yokoyama, and Bengt Lindholm

Effect of repeated intravenous iron administration in haemodialysis patients on serum 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine levels
NDT Advance Access published on January 29, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1407-1412; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl789 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lorenzo A Calò, Agostino Naso, Gianni Carraro, Mary Lou Wratten, Elisa Pagnin, Lara Bertipaglia, Mirka Rebeschini, Paul A Davis, Antonio Piccoli, and Carmelo Cascone

Effect of haemodiafiltration with online regeneration of ultrafiltrate on oxidative stress in dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on January 20, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1413-1419; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl783 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elena Mancini, Emanuele Mambelli, Mina Irpinia, Danila Gabrielli, Carmelo Cascone, Ferruccio Conte, Gina Meneghel, Fosco Cavatorta, Alessandro Antonelli, Giuseppe Villa, Antonio Dal Canton, Leonardo Cagnoli, Filippo Aucella, Fulvio Fiorini, Enzo Gaggiotti, Giorgio Triolo, Vitale Nuzzo, and Antonio Santoro

Prevention of dialysis hypotension episodes using fuzzy logic control system
NDT Advance Access published on February 13, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1420-1427; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl799 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ruth Garside, Martin Pitt, Rob Anderson, Stuart Mealing, Richard D'Souza, and Ken Stein

The cost-utility of cinacalcet in addition to standard care compared to standard care alone for secondary hyperparathyroidism in end-stage renal disease: a UK perspective
NDT Advance Access published on February 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1428-1436; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl774 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Agnès Dejardin, Annie Robert, and Eric Goffin

Intraperitoneal pressure in PD patients: relationship to intraperitoneal volume, body size and PD-related complications
NDT Advance Access published on February 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1437-1444; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl745 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Man Fai Lam, Joseph C. K. Leung, Wai Kei Lo, Sidney Tam, Mei-ching Chong, Sing Leung Lui, Kai Chung Tse, Tak Mao Chan, and Kar Neng Lai

Hyperleptinaemia and chronic inflammation after peritonitis predicts poor nutritional status and mortality in patients on peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on February 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1445-1450; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl788 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pedro Gutiérrez, Domingo Marrero, Domingo Hernández, Sofia Vivancos, Lourdes Pérez-Tamajón, Jose Maria Rodríguez de Vera, Antonio Alarcó, and Jose Manuel González-Posada

Surgical complications and renal function after kidney alone or simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: a matched comparative study
NDT Advance Access published on February 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1451-1455; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl771 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luís Henrique Wolff Gowdak, Flávio Jota de Paula, Luiz Antonio Machado César, Eulógio Emílio Martinez Filho, Luiz Estevan Ianhez, Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, José Antonio Franchini Ramires, and José Jayme Galvão De Lima

Diabetes and coronary artery disease impose similar cardiovascular morbidity and mortality on renal transplant candidates
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1456-1461; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl781 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

III. Clinical Reports

Case Reports

Rebecca Howman and Hemant Kulkarni

Antibody-mediated acquired pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) after treatment with darbepoetin
NDT Advance Access published on February 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1462-1464; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl727 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucio Manenti and Augusto Vaglio

Pure red cell aplasia followed by disseminated intravascular coagulation in a haemodialysis patient receiving erythropoietin-ß
NDT Advance Access published on March 2, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1465-1467; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm073 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlo Lomonte, Sergio Petronelli, Francesco Casucci, and Carlo Basile

Nitinol stenting and an unsuccessful surgical operation
NDT Advance Access published on February 17, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1468-1470; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm047 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IV. Educational Features

Images in Nephrology

Shen-Yang Lee, Hung Chang, Tse-Ching Chen, Hsiang-Hao Hsu, Ji-Tseng Fang, and Chih-Wei Yang

Lingual amyloidosis—a rare complication of long-term haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on February 1, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1471-1472; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm038 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ming-Yu Lai, Yao-Ping Lin, and Wu-Chang Yang

Fever with fulminant skin necrosis and digital gangrene in a uraemic woman
NDT Advance Access published on February 15, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1473-1474; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm035 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariusz Niemczyk, Ireneusz Babiak, Janusz Wyzgal, Roman Pykalo, and Leszek Paczek

Primary T-cell lymphoma of the calcaneus in the kidney transplant recipient
NDT Advance Access published on February 21, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1475-1476; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm078 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

V. Varia

Letters

Daniel E. Henao, Peter W. Mathieson, Moin A. Saleem, Julio C. Bueno, and Ángela Cadavid

A novel renal perspective of preeclampsia: a look from the podocyte
NDT Advance Access published on January 18, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1477; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl804 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gianluca Caridi, Monica Dagnino, Alba Carrea, Laura Massella, Alessandro Amore, Francesco Emma, Rosanna Coppo, Francesco Perfumo, and Gian Marco Ghiggeri

Lack of cardiac anomalies in children with NPHS2 mutations
NDT Advance Access published on January 11, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1477-1479; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl833 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masahiro Aoyama, Toshiro Sugimoto, Tomonobu Yokono, Masayoshi Sakaguchi, Naoko Deji, Takashi Uzu, and Atsunori Kashiwagi

Minimal-change nephropathy and chronic hepatitis C infection: coincidental or associated?
NDT Advance Access published on January 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1479-1480; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl808 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassane Izzedine, Laurent Camous, and Gilbert Deray

New insight on crescentic glomerulonephritis
NDT Advance Access published on December 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1480-1481; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl742 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassane Izzedine, Isabelle Brocheriou, Gilbert Deray, and Olivier Rixe

Thrombotic microangiopathy and anti-VEGF agents
NDT Advance Access published on December 21, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1481-1482; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl565 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janusz Gumprecht, Marcin Jan Zychma, Dariusz Karasek, and Wladyslaw Grzeszczak

ACE gene I/D polymorphism and the presence of renal failure or hypertension in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)
NDT Advance Access published on January 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1483; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl738 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diana Y. Y. Chiu, Anne M. Whiteside, Janet Hegarty, Graeme Wood, Donal J. O'Donoghue, Stephen Waldek, Hari Mamtora, and Philip A. Kalra

Epidemiology and investigation of acute abdominal presentations in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1483-1484; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl827 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessio Sturiale, Susanna Campo, Eleonora Crascì, Giuseppe Coppolino, Davide Bolignano, Giovanni Grasso, and Michele Buemi

Erythropoietin and its lost receptor
NDT Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1484-1485; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl769 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leszek Niepolski, Alicja E. Grzegorzewska, and Janusz Szymas

Nodular pulmonary amyloidosis and Sjõgren's syndrome in a patient treated with intermittent haemodialysis (IHD)
NDT Advance Access published on January 18, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1485-1486; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl823 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eun Young Jung, Dong Wook Kim, Dong Won Lee, Hyun Seop Cho, Se-Ho Chang, and Dong Jun Park

Vibrio vulnificus peritonitis after eating raw sea fish in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
NDT Advance Access published on January 5, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1487; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl736 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Massimiliano Veroux, Daniela Corona, Maurizio Macarone, Massimiliano Gagliano, Giuseppe Giuffida, and Pierfrancesco Veroux

Caspofungin in kidney transplant recipients with refractory invasive candidiasis
NDT Advance Access published on January 8, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1487-1488; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl749 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abbas Agaimy and Peter H. Wünsch

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) in kidney transplant recipients—a report of two cases
NDT Advance Access published on February 3, 2007
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1489-1490; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl807 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata

Hiroshi Nishi, Akihiro Tojo, Maristela Lika Onozato, Rika Jimbo, Masaomi Nangaku, Hiroshi Uozaki, Kenji Hirano, Hiroyuki Isayama, Masao Omata, and Shinya Kaname

Anti-carbonic anhydrase II antibody in autoimmune pancreatitis and tubulointerstitial nephritis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1491; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm255 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Do sleep disorders start in dialysis or in early chronic kidney disease?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1491; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm256 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Retroperitoneal fibrosis and membranous nephropathy. Improvement of both diseases after treatment with steroids and immunosuppressive agents
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1491; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm257 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2007 22: 1492-1494; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm201 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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