Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

In This Issue

In this issue
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: i-ii; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn700 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Report from the Editorial Office

N. Lameire, J. Floege, and D. C. Wheeler

Report from the Editorial Office
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 1-3; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn702 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Comments

Mohammed Shawkat Razzaque

Does FGF23 toxicity influence the outcome of chronic kidney disease?
NDT Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 4-7; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn620 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uwe Kuhlmann, Felix Georg Bormann, and Heinrich Friedrich Becker

Obstructive sleep apnoea: clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment
NDT Advance Access published on September 11, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 8-14; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn510 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Reviews

Gabriella Moroni, Andrea Doria, and Claudio Ponticelli

Cyclosporine (CsA) in lupus nephritis: assessing the evidence
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 15-20; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn565 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Sommerer, Thomas Giese, Stefan Meuer, and Martin Zeier

Pharmacodynamic monitoring of calcineurin inhibitor therapy: Is there a clinical benefit?
NDT Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 21-27; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn556 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology

Sarah A. Browne and Donal Reddan

Potential role of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalling as a potential therapeutic target for modification of iron balance
NDT Advance Access published on October 2, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 28-30; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn551 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Duska Dragun and Anja Haase-Fielitz

Low catechol-O-methyltransferase and 2-methoxyestradiol in preeclampsia: more than a unifying hypothesis
NDT Advance Access published on November 27, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 31-33; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn534 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kidney Diseases Beyond Nephrology

Charles A. Herzog

Kidney disease in cardiology
NDT Advance Access published on November 21, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 34-37; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn637 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes F. E. Mann

What's new in hypertension 2008?
NDT Advance Access published on November 25, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 38-42; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn642 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

II. Scientific Papers

Original Articles

Experimental Nephrology

Get checked abstract Thorsten Feldkamp, Joel M. Weinberg, Markus Hörbelt, Christina Von Kropff, Oliver Witzke, Jens Nürnberger, and Andreas Kribben

Evidence for involvement of nonesterified fatty acid-induced protonophoric uncoupling during mitochondrial dysfunction caused by hypoxia and reoxygenation
NDT Advance Access published on August 1, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 43-51; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn436 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Danuta Sabuda-Widemann, Bernd Grabensee, Christina Schwandt, and Cornelia Blume

Mycophenolic acid inhibits the autocrine PDGF-B synthesis and PDGF-BB-induced mRNA expression of Egr-1 in rat mesangial cells
NDT Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 52-61; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn462 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kar Neng Lai, Joseph C. K. Leung, Loretta Y. Y. Chan, Moin A. Saleem, Peter W. Mathieson, Ka Ying Tam, Jing Xiao, Fernand M. Lai, and Sydney C. W. Tang

Podocyte injury induced by mesangial-derived cytokines in IgA nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 62-72; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn441 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Young Sun Kang, Gang Jee Ko, Mi Hwa Lee, Hye Kyoung Song, Sang Youb Han, Kum Hyun Han, Hyoung Kyu Kim, Jee Young Han, and Dae Ryong Cha

Effect of eplerenone, enalapril and their combination treatment on diabetic nephropathy in type II diabetic rats
NDT Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 73-84; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn448 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Nephrology

Get checked abstract Pierre Douville, Ariane R. Martel, Jean Talbot, Simon Desmeules, Serge Langlois, and Mohsen Agharazii

Impact of age on glomerular filtration estimates
NDT Advance Access published on September 4, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 97-103; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn473 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicholas J. Bird, Christina Peters, Alastair Robert Michell, and Adrien Michael Peters

Effect of extracellular fluid volume on single-sample measurement of glomerular filtration rate
NDT Advance Access published on August 19, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 104-108; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn437 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Darren Lee, Adeera Levin, Simon D. Roger, and Lawrence P. McMahon

Longitudinal analysis of performance of estimated glomerular filtration rate as renal function declines in chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on August 28, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 109-116; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn477 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ernest K. Sumaili, Jean-Marie Krzesinski, Chantal V. Zinga, Eric P. Cohen, Pierre Delanaye, Sylvain M. Munyanga, and Nazaire M. Nseka

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Kinshasa: results of a pilot study from the Democratic Republic of Congo
NDT Advance Access published on August 20, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 117-122; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn469 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Charumathi Sabanayagam, Anoop Shankar, Seang Mei Saw, Su Chi Lim, E Shyong Tai, and Tien Yin Wong

Socioeconomic status and microalbuminuria in an Asian population
NDT Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 123-129; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn447 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joan H. Parks, Fredric L. Coe, Andrew P. Evan, and Elaine M. Worcester

Urine pH in renal calcium stone formers who do and do not increase stone phosphate content with time
NDT Advance Access published on July 28, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 130-136; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn420 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Attilio Losito, Emidio Giovanni Nunzi, Carla Covarelli, Elisabetta Nunzi, and Gaetano Ferrara

Increased acid excretion in kidney stone formers with essential hypertension
NDT Advance Access published on August 20, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 137-141; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn468 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Aikaterini Drougia, Vasileios Giapros, Efthalia Hotoura, Frederica Papadopoulou, Maria Argyropoulou, and Styliani Andronikou

The effects of gestational age and growth restriction on compensatory kidney growth
NDT Advance Access published on August 4, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 142-148; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn431 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elsa González, Thomas Neuhaus, Markus J. Kemper, and Eric Girardin

Proteomic analysis of mononuclear cells of patients with minimal-change nephrotic syndrome of childhood
NDT Advance Access published on August 12, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 149-155; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn459 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Gian Franco Ferraccioli, Giovanni Gambaro, Pierluigi Fulignati, and Stefano Costanzi

Combined treatment with renin–angiotensin system blockers and polyunsaturated fatty acids in proteinuric IgA nephropathy: a randomized controlled trial
NDT Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 156-160; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn454 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Benjamin Wilde, Sebastian Dolff, Xin Cai, Christof Specker, Jan Becker, Martin Tötsch, Ulrich Costabel, Jan Dürig, Andreas Kribben, Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, Kurt Werner Schmid, and Oliver Witzke

CD4⁺CD25⁺ T-cell populations expressing CD134 and GITR are associated with disease activity in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis
NDT Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 161-171; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn461 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Qi-Ying Fang, Feng Yu, Ying Tan, Li-xia Xu, Li-hua Wu, Gang Liu, Feng-min Shao, and Ming-hui Zhao

Anti-C1q antibodies and IgG subclass distribution in sera from Chinese patients with lupus nephritis
NDT Advance Access published on August 12, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 172-178; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn453 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Svjetlana Lovric, Uta Erdbruegger, Philipp Kümpers, Alexander Woywodt, Christian Koenecke, Heiner Wedemeyer, Hermann Haller, and Marion Haubitz

Rituximab as rescue therapy in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: a single-centre experience with 15 patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 179-185; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn430 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ruth C. Campbell, Xuemei Sui, Gerasimos Filippatos, Thomas E. Love, Christy Wahle, Paul W. Sanders, and Ali Ahmed

Association of chronic kidney disease with outcomes in chronic heart failure: a propensity-matched study
NDT Advance Access published on August 18, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 186-193; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn445 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract George Tsagalis, Theodore Akrivos, Maria Alevizaki, Efstathios Manios, Kimon Stamatellopoulos, Antonis Laggouranis, and Konstantinos N. Vemmos

Renal dysfunction in acute stroke: an independent predictor of long-term all combined vascular events and overall mortality
NDT Advance Access published on August 26, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 194-200; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn471 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dialysis

Get checked abstract Phillip J. Yates, Adam D. Barlow, Yasha Johari, Tahir Doughman, and Michael L. Nicholson

The great saphenous vein for central venous access and haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 208-210; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn456 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elizabeth J. Lindley, Paul W. Chamney, Andreas Wuepper, Helen Ingles, James E. Tattersall, and Eric J. Will

A comparison of methods for determining urea distribution volume for routine use in on-line monitoring of haemodialysis adequacy
NDT Advance Access published on August 12, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 211-216; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn457 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Cécile Couchoud, Jeroen Kooman, Patrik Finne, Torbjørn Leivestad, Olivera Stojceva-Taneva, Jadranka Buturovic Ponikvar, Frederic Collart, Reinhard Kramar, Angel de Francisco, Kitty J. Jager, and on behalf of the QUEST working group on dialysis adequacy

From registry data collection to international comparisons: examples of haemodialysis duration and frequency
NDT Advance Access published on August 1, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 217-224; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn442 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Melissa S. Y. Thong, Sandra van Dijk, Marlies Noordzij, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, Raymond T. Krediet, Friedo W. Dekker, Adrian A. Kaptein, and for the NECOSAD Study Group

Symptom clusters in incident dialysis patients: associations with clinical variables and quality of life
NDT Advance Access published on August 8, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 225-230; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn449 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mariann D. Churchwell, Deborah A. Pasko, William E. Smoyer, and Bruce A. Mueller

Enhanced clearance of highly protein-bound drugs by albumin-supplemented dialysate during modeled continuous hemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 231-238; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn467 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yen-Ling Chiu, Yi-Fang Chuang, Kai-Chi Fang, Shih-Kai Liu, Hung-Yuen Chen, Ju-Yeh Yang, Mei-Fen Pai, Yu-Sen Peng, Kwan-Dun Wu, and Tun-Jun Tsai

Higher systemic inflammation is associated with poorer sleep quality in stable haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on July 29, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 247-251; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn439 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas Dechmann-Sültemeyer, Renata Linkeschova, Karl Lenzen, Zdravko Kuril, Bernd Grabensee, and Adina Voiculescu

Tandem plasmapheresis and haemodialysis as a safe procedure in 82 patients with immune-mediated disease
NDT Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 252-257; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn434 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hariprasad Trivedi, Qun Xiang, and John P. Klein

Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction and cardiac death in incident dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 258-266; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn426 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Olaf Burkhardt, Carsten Hafer, Anita Langhoff, Volkhard Kaever, Vipul Kumar, Tobias Welte, Hermann Haller, Danilo Fliser, and Jan T. Kielstein

Pharmacokinetics of ertapenem in critically ill patients with acute renal failure undergoing extended daily dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on August 23, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 267-271; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn472 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Inna Kolesnyk, Marlies Noordzij, Friedo W. Dekker, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, and Raymond T. Krediet

A positive effect of AII inhibitors on peritoneal membrane function in long-term PD patients
NDT Advance Access published on July 30, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 272-277; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn421 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pieter Evenepoel, Rafael Selgas, Flavia Caputo, Lukas Foggensteiner, James G. Heaf, Alberto Ortiz, Alison Kelly, Scott Chasan-Taber, Ajay Duggal, and Stanley Fan

Efficacy and safety of sevelamer hydrochloride and calcium acetate in patients on peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on September 27, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 278-285; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn488 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Magnus Braide, Börje Haraldsson, and Ulf Persson

Citrate supplementation of PD fluid: effects on net ultrafiltration and clearance of small solutes in single dwells
NDT Advance Access published on September 15, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 286-292; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn452 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Transplantation

Get checked abstract Pankaj Chandak, Nicos Kessaris, Ben Challacombe, Jonathan Olsburgh, Francis Calder, and Nizam Mamode

How safe is hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy?—Results of 200 live donor nephrectomies by two different techniques
NDT Advance Access published on August 18, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 293-297; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn463 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tobias Oettl, Joerg Halter, Alexander Bachmann, Lorenz Guerke, Laura Infanti, Daniel Oertli, Michael Mihatsch, Alois Gratwohl, Juerg Steiger, and Michael Dickenmann

ABO blood group-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation: a prospective, single-centre analysis including serial protocol biopsies
NDT Advance Access published on August 26, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 298-303; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn478 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Willy Aasebø, Nina Agnete Homb-Vesteraas, Anders Hartmann, and Knut Stavem

Life situation and quality of life in young adult kidney transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on October 7, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 304-308; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn537 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Orsolya Cseprekál, Éva Kis, Péter Schäffer, Taha El Hadj Othmane, Bertalan Cs. Fekete, Ádám Vannay, Attila J. Szabó, Ádám Remport, András Szabó, Tivadar Tulassay, and György S. Reusz

Pulse wave velocity in children following renal transplantation
NDT Advance Access published on September 5, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 309-315; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn494 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ilkka Helanterä, Irmeli Lautenschlager, and Petri Koskinen

Prospective follow-up of primary CMV infections after 6 months of valganciclovir prophylaxis in renal transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 316-320; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn558 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Report

Get checked abstract Friederike Malycha, Thomas Eggermann, Mihail Hristov, Francesco Paolo Schena, Peter R. Mertens, Klaus Zerres, Jürgen Floege, and Frank Eitner

No evidence for a role of cosmc-chaperone mutations in European IgA nephropathy patients
NDT Advance Access published on October 7, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 321-324; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn538 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

III. Varia

Letter and Reply

Joan Fort

A rare case of acute renal failure—acute bilateral renal artery embolism
NDT Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 325; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn474 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uta Hillebrand and Eckhart Buessemaker

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 325; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn475 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter

Anne-Lise Hiel, Michel Tintillier, Charles Cuvelier, Alexandre Léonard, and Jean-Michel Pochet

Acute renal failure secondary to oxalosis in a recipient of a simultaneous kidney–pancreas transplant: was mycophenolate the cause?
NDT Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 326; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn578 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

Announcements
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 327; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn701 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

List of Reviewers

We sincerely thank all our subject and section editors for their hard work over the past year
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2009 24: 328-336; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn710 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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