Vol. S8 — Supplemento S8 2004

• Foreword
  

  P. Altieri¹

  (1) Dipartimento Patologia Renale, Azienda G. Brotzu, Ospedale San Michele, Cagliari

• Thoughts about the classification of small vessel vasculitis
  

  R.J. Falk¹, J.C. Jennette²

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hil
  (2) Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

• Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis: Current and evolving treatment strategies
  

  M.A. Little¹, C.D. Pusey¹

  (1) Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London - United

• Generic cyclosporine: A word of caution
  

  C. Ponticelli¹

  (1) IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milano - Italy

• Tacrolimus based immunosuppression
  

  M.R. First¹

  (1) Research and Development, Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., Deerfield - USA

• Sirolimus-based immunosuppression: Present state of the art
  

  B.D. Kahan¹

  (1) Division of Immunology and Organ Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Med

• Prevention of acute rejection with antithymocyte globulin (Thymoglobuline): Its potential to reduce corticosteroids
  

  D. Cantarovich¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, ITERT, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes - France

• Teenagers point of view on living donor kidney transplantation: Cinderella or princess?
  

  G. Piccoli¹, G.P. Segoloni¹, G. Soragna¹, E. Mezza¹, M. Burdese¹, G. Tognarelli², S. Putaggio¹, D. Bergamo², V. Consiglio², E. Vespertino², A. Bonetto², A. Jeantet¹, G.B. Piccoli¹

  (1) Chair of Nephrology, University of Turin - Italy
  (2) Chair of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Torino and Unit of Nephrology, D

• Adequacy targets in peritoneal dialysis
  

  R. Gokal¹, C. Chan¹

  (1) Department of Renal Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester - UK

• Hypervolemia in peritoneal dialysis patients
  

  N. Lameire¹, Wim Van Biesen¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Renal Division, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent - Belgium

• Long-term outcome in pd morbidity and mortality
  

  G. Cancarini¹

  (1) Chair and Division of Nephrology, University and Spedali Civili, Brescia - Italy

• Inflammation and oxidative stress in ESRD the role of myeloperoxidase
  

  Y. Maruyama¹, B. Lindholm¹, P. Stenvinkel¹

  (1) Divisions of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Karolinska University

• Adequacy target in hemodialysis
  

  B. Canaud¹

  (1) Nephrology, Renal Research and Training Institute, AIDER, Montpellier - France

• Long-term outcome in hemodialysis: Morbidity and mortality
  

  P. Pozzoni¹, L. Del Vecchio¹, G. Pontoriero¹, S. Di Filippo¹, Francesco Locatelli¹

  (1) Divisione di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Ospedale 'A. Manzoni', Lecco - Italy