Vol. 3 — May-June 2007

• Economic evaluation in renal disease
  

  S.W. Klarenbach¹

  (1) Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta and Institu

• WNKs: new concepts in the regulation of NaCl and K+ balance
  

  D. Eladari^1,2,3, R. Chambrey⁴

  (1) Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris
  (2) Ren Descartes Faculty of Medicine, Universit Paris
  (3) and D
  (4) Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris - France

• Biosimilars: uncharted territory
  

  Francesco Locatelli¹, David Goldsmith²

  (1) Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, A. Manzoni Hospital, Lecco - Italy
  (2) Renal Unit, Guy's Hospital, London - UK

• Membranous nephropathy
  

  C. Ponticelli¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Maggiore Hospital, IRCCS, Milan - Italy

• Autogenous arteriovenous fistula options
  

  L.M. Spergel¹, Pietro Ravani², A. Asif³, P. Roy-Chaudhury⁴, A. Besarab⁵

  (1) Dialysis Management Medical Group, San Francisco, California - USA
  (2) Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland - Canada a
  (3) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miam
  (4) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio - USA
  (5) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan - USA

• Vascular mapping techniques: advantages and disadvantages
  

  A. Asif¹, Pietro Ravani², P. Roy-Chaudhury³, L.M. Spergel⁴, A. Besarab⁵

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miam
  (2) Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland - Canada a
  (3) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio - USA
  (4) Dialysis Management Medical Group, San Francisco, California - USA
  (5) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan - USA

• Emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients on hemodialysis: the clinical value of COOP-WONCA char
  

  M.D. Arenas¹, F. Alvarez-Ude², A. Reig-Ferrer³, J.P. Zito¹, M.T. Gil¹, M.A. Carreton¹, B. Albiach¹, A. Moledous¹

  (1) Perpetuo Socorro Hospital, Alicante - Spain
  (2) Segovia General Hospital, Segovia - Spain
  (3) Department of Health Psychology, University of Alicante, Alicante - Spain

• Urine release of systemically administered bone morphogenetic protein hybrid molecule
  

  L. Grgurevic¹, B. Macek², I. Erjavec¹, M. Mann², S. Vukicevic¹

  (1) Laboratory of Mineralized Tissues, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
  (2) Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried

• Influence of chronic renal insufficiency on left ventricular diastolic function in hypertensives without left ventricula
  

  E. Nardi¹, S. Cottone¹, G. Mul¹, A. Palermo¹, P. Cusimano¹, G. Cerasola¹

  (1) Chair of Internal Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension, Department o

• The Pisa experience of renal biopsies, 1977-2005
  

  Vincenzo Panichi¹, A. Pasquariello¹, M. Innocenti¹, Mario Meola¹, E. Mantuano¹, S. Beati¹, S. Paoletti¹, C. Consani¹, R. Puccini¹, L. Casarosa¹, V. Gattai¹, C. Filippi¹, L. Moriconi¹, Giuliano Barsotti¹, P. Rindi¹, R. Palla¹

  (1) Internal Medicine Department and Renal Unit, Hospital of Pisa, Pisa - Italy

• Etiologies of chronic renal failure in Jordanian population
  

  S.I. Al-Azzam¹, E.Y. Abu-dahoud², H.A. El-khatib³, T.H. Dawoud¹, B.A. Al-Husein¹

  (1) Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, I
  (2) Internal Medical Department, Nephrology Division, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid - Jordan
  (3) Nephrology Department, Princess Basma Teaching Hospital, Irbid - Jordan

• Peritonitis, peritoneal inflammation and membrane permeability: a longitudinal study of dialysate and serum MCP-1 in sta
  

  A.R. Malik¹, M.A. Little², M. Henriksson³, F.W.K. Tam⁴, E.A. Brown⁴

  (1) Renal Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London and Renal Department, Lincoln County Hospital, Linc
  (2) Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK
  (3) Renal Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London - UK
  (4) Renal Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London and Division of Medicine, Imperial College London,

• Should rituximab be the rescue therapy for refractory mixed cryoglobulinemia associated with hepatitis C?
  

  M.S. Ahmed¹, C.F. Wong¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool - UK

• Periglomerular accumulation of dendritic cells in rat crescentic glomerulonephritis
  

  H. Fujinaka¹, M. Nameta¹, P. Kovalenko¹, A. Matsuki¹, N. Kato¹, G. Nishimoto¹, Y. Yoshida¹, E. Yaoita¹, M. Naito², I. Kihara¹, S. Tomizawa³, T. Yamamoto¹

  (1) Department of Structural Pathology, Institute of Nephrology, Niigata University Graduate School of M
  (2) Second Department of Pathology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, N
  (3) Institute for Clinical Research, Niigata National Hospital, Niigata - Japan

• Sequence and expression of NAPlr is conserved among group A streptococci isolated from patients with acute poststreptoco
  

  M. Fujino¹, K. Yamakami², T. Oda², F. Omasu², T. Murai³, N. Yoshizawa²

  (1) Department of Public Health, National Defense Medical College, Saitama - Japan (Current address: Nat
  (2) Department of Public Health, National Defense Medical College, Saitama - Japan
  (3) Department of Community Health Nursing, Science of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, To

• Sulodexide for hemodialysis anticoagulation in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia type II
  

  J. Borawski¹, E. Zbroch¹, A. Rydzewska-Rosolowska¹, K. Pawlak¹, M. Mysliwiec¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology and Transplantation with Dialysis Unit, Medical University, Bialystok - Pol