Vol. 6 — November-December 2012

• Left ventricular hypertrophy and progression of chronic kidney disease
  

  Ernesto Paoletti¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino IST-Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova - Italy

• Genetic studies in chronic kidney disease: interpretation and clinical applicability
  

  Anna Witasp¹, Louise Nordfors^1,2,3, Juan Jesus Carrero^1,4,5,6, Karin Luttropp^4,5, Bengt Lindholm¹, Martin Schalling^4,5, Peter Stenvinkel¹

  (1) Divisions of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden
  (2) and Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden
  (3) and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden
  (4) Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden
  (5) Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden
  (6) and Center for Gender Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Sweden

• Proteomics and nephrology
  

  Mario Bonomini¹, Vittorio Sirolli¹, Fulvio Magni², Andrea Urbani^3,4

  (1) Institute of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, G. D’Annunzio University, Chieti - Italy
  (2) Clinical Proteomic Units, Department of Experimental Medicine, Bicocca University, Milan - Italy
  (3) IRCCS–Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome - Italy
  (4) and Department of Internal Medicine, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome - Italy

• Epidemiology and optimal management in patients with renal artery stenosis
  

  Grzegorz Piecha¹, Andrzej Wiecek¹, Andrzej Januszewicz²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice - Poland
  (2) Department of Hypertension, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw - Poland

• Education and counseling of renal transplant recipients
  

  Claudio Ponticelli¹, Giorgio Graziani¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS Rozzano, Milan - Italy

• Renal transplant allocation criteria, desensitization strategies and immunosuppressive therapy in retransplant renal pat
  

  Maurizio Salvadori¹, Elisabetta Bertoni²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, University of Florence, Florence - Italy
  (2) Renal Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence - Italy

• Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade for nephroprotection: current evidence and future directions
  

  Leszek Tylicki¹, Slawomir Lizakowski¹, Boleslaw Rutkowski¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk - Poland

• Posttransplant recurrence of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
  

  Elisabetta Valoti¹, Marta Alberti², Marina Noris²

  (1) Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases “Aldo e Cele Daccò”, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Ranica, Bergamo - Italy
  (2) Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases, “Aldo e Cele Daccò,” Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Ranica, Bergamo - Italy

• FK506 alleviates proteinuria in rats with adriamycin-induced nephropathy by down-regulating TRPC6 and CaN expression
  

  Yaqing Liu¹, Zequan Ji¹

  (1) Department of Pediatrics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou - China

• Home dialysis and the Internet: designing an e-learning platform via brainstorming sessions
  

  Giorgina Barbara Piccoli¹, Martina Ferraresi¹, Antonio Murciano², Amina Pereno³, Valentina Consiglio¹, Stefania Scognamiglio¹, Maria Chiara Deagostini¹, Olga Randone¹, Gerardo Digiorgio¹, Mario Pasquale Calderale⁴

  (1) SS Nephrology, San Luigi University Hospital, Orbassano, Turin - Italy
  (2) Web design, Byters S.R.L., Turin - Italy
  (3) Eco-Compatible Product Design, Faculty of Architecture I, Turin Polytechnic, Turin - Italy
  (4) Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Turin Polytechnic, Turin - Italy

• Knowledge translation for nephrologists: strategies for improving the identification of patients with proteinuria
  

  Brenda R. Hemmelgarn¹, Braden J. Manns¹, Sharon Straus², Christopher Naugler³, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc¹, Ted C. Braun⁴, Adeera Levin⁵, Scott Klarenbach⁶, Patrick F. Lee⁷, Kevin Hafez⁷, Daniel Schwartz⁵, Kailash Jindal⁶, Kathy Ervin⁸, Aminu Bello⁶, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin¹, Kerry McBrien¹, Meghan Elliott¹, Marcello Tonelli⁶, Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration (ICDC)

  (1) Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (2) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario - Canada
  (3) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (4) Department of Family Medicine, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (5) Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada
  (6) Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta - Canada
  (7) Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (8) Information Systems of Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta - Canada

• Clinical decision support to improve blood pressure control in hemodialysis patients: a nonrandomized controlled trial
  

  Stephanie Thompson¹, Brenda Hemmelgarn², Natasha Wiebe¹, Sumit Majumdar³, Scott Klarenbach¹, Kailash Jindal¹, Braden Manns², Garth Mortis², Patricia Campbell¹, Marcello Tonelli¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta - Canada
  (2) Division of Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (3) Division of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta - Canada

• Depression in dialysis patients and its association with nutritional markers and quality of life
  

  Cláudia M.C. Oliveira¹, Sarah P. Costa¹, Liana C. Costa¹, Sara M. Pinheiro¹, Gisele A. Lacerda¹, Marcos Kubrusly¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Christus and Federal University of Ceara-Brazil, Fortaleza, Ceara - Brazil

• Establishing goals of volume management in critically ill patients with renal failure
  

  Patrick T. Mailloux¹, Jennifer Friderici¹, Benjamin Freda¹, William T. McGee¹

  (1) Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts - USA

• Effects of pentoxifylline on inflammatory parameters in chronic kidney disease patients: a randomized trial
  

  Marian Goicoechea¹, Soledad García de Vinuesa¹, Borja Quiroga¹, Ursula Verdalles¹, Daniel Barraca¹, Claudia Yuste¹, Nayara Panizo¹, Eduardo Verde¹, M. Angeles Muñoz², José Luño¹

  (1) Nephrology Unit, University Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid - Spain
  (2) Inmunology Unit, University Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid - Spain

• Creatinine clearance, cystatin C, beta2-microglobulin and TATI as markers of renal function in patients with proteinuria
  

  Gianfranco Tramonti¹, Ilaria Cipollini¹, Carmela Annichiarico², Paolo Lorusso¹, Erica Panicucci³, Giuliano Mariani², Giuliano Barsotti¹

  (1) Nephrology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy
  (2) Department of Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy
  (3) Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy

• Vitamin D status in dark-skinned patients undergoing hemodialysis in a continually sunny country
  

  Lydia Foucan¹, Jacques Ducros², Henri Merault^2,3

  (1) Research Group for Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Antilles and Guyane, Guadeloupe - France
  (2) AUDRA Dialysis Center, Ricou Hospital, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe - France
  (3) and Nephrology Unit, University Hospital, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe - France

• Insulin glargine improves glycemic control and quality of life in type 2 diabetic patients on hemodialysis
  

  Masao Toyoda¹, Moritsugu Kimura¹, Naoyuki Yamamoto¹, Masaaki Miyauchi¹, Tomoya Umezono¹, Daisuke Suzuki¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa - Japan

• Association between CTLA4 gene polymorphisms and acute rejection of kidney transplantation: a meta-analysis
  

  Zhenhua Duan¹, Yujing Zhang¹, Faming Pan¹, Tianchen Zhang¹, Zhen Zeng¹, Sheng Wang¹, Guixing Li¹, Beibei Shen¹, Jing Gao¹

  (1) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui - PR China

• Creatinine- vs. cystatin C-based equations compared with 99mTcDTPA scintigraphy to assess glomerular filtration rate in
  

  Hernán Trimarchi¹, Alexis Muryan², Diana Martino³, Agostina Toscano², Romina Iriarte¹, Vicente Campolo-Girard¹, Mariano Forrester¹, Vanesa Pomeranz¹, Clara Fitzsimons³, Fernando Lombi¹, Pablo Young⁴, María S. Raña¹, Mirta Alonso²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, British Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires - Argentina
  (2) Central Laboratory, British Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires - Argentina
  (3) Department of Nuclear Medicine, British Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires - Argentina
  (4) Department of Clinical Medicine, British Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires - Argentina

• Measuring asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) in CKD: a comparison between enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and liquid c
  

  Paola Pecchini¹, Fabio Malberti¹, Maren Mieth², Robert Quinn³, Giovanni Tripepi⁴, Francesca Mallamaci⁴, Renke Maas², Carmine Zoccali⁴, Pietro Ravani³

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Azienda Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona, Cremona - Italy
  (2) Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg - Germany
  (3) Department of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - Canada
  (4) Division of Nephrology, Ospedali Riuniti and CNR IBIM, Reggio Calabria - Italy

• Effect of mitofusin 2 overexpression on the proliferation and apoptosis of high-glucose-induced rat glomerular mesangial
  

  Tang Wan-Xin¹, Cui Tian-Lei¹, Wang Ben¹, Wu Wei-Hua¹, Fu Ping¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu - PR China

• All-trans retinoic acid inhibits mesangial cell proliferation by up-regulating p21Waf1/Cip1 and p27Kip1 and down-regulat
  

  Baofeng Su¹, Xiaolan Chen¹, Chonghui Zhong¹, Naifeng Guo¹, Jianghong He¹, Yaping Fan¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province - PR China

• Toll-like receptor 9 and vascular endothelial growth factor levels in human kidneys from lupus nephritis patients
  

  Marianne Frieri¹, Mohammad A. Samih­², Megi Dzhindzhikhashvili¹, Hui Liu³, Leah Balsam², Sofia Rubinstein²

  (1) Division of Allergy Immunology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York - USA
  (2) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York - USA
  (3) Department of Pathology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York - USA

• Limitations of Cockcroft-Gault and MDRD formulas in estimating GFR among top-level rugby players
  

  Giuseppe Banfi¹, James Sloand², Mark Shelly², Massimo Del Fabbro¹, Alessandra Barassi³, Gian Vico Melzi d’Eril³

  (1) IRCCS Galeazzi, School of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan - Italy
  (2) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York - USA
  (3) Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan - Italy

• Indications and results of renal biopsy in children: a 10-year review from a single center in Serbia
  

  Dusan Paripovic¹, Mirjana Kostic¹, Divna Kruscic¹, Brankica Spasojevic¹, Gordana Lomic¹, Jasmina Markovic-Lipkovski², Gordana Basta-Jovanovic², Zeljko Smoljanic³, Amira Peco-Antic¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, University Children’s Hospital, Belgrade - Serbia
  (2) Institute of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade - Serbia
  (3) Department of Radiology, University Children’s Hospital, Belgrade - Serbia

• Efficacy and safety of rituximab treatment in children with primary glomerulonephritis
  

  Jacek Zachwieja¹, Magdalena Silska¹, Danuta Ostalska-Nowicka¹, Jolanta Soltysiak¹, Katarzyna Lipkowska¹, Andrzej Blumczynski¹, Anna Musielak¹

  (1) Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Poznan University of Medical Science, Poznan - Poland

• Effect of serum electrolyte and bicarbonate concentration changes during hemodialysis sessions on heart rate variability
  

  Murat Hayri Sipahioglu¹, Ismail Kocyigit¹, Aydin Unal¹, Melek Karakurt², Ahmet Celik³, Bulent Tokgoz¹, Oktay Oymak¹, Cengiz Utas¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Erciyes University Medical Faculty, Kayseri - Turkey
  (2) Department of Internal Medicine, Erciyes University Medical Faculty, Kayseri - Turkey
  (3) Department of Cardiology, Erciyes University Medical Faculty, Kayseri - Turkey

• Serum HSP27 is associated with medullary perfusion in kidney allografts
  

  Eva Marquez¹, Elizabeth Sadowski², Shannon Reese³, Aparna Vidyasagar³, Nathan Artz², Sean Fain², Lynn Jacobson³, William Swain³, Arjang Djamali³

  (1) Nephrology Department, Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona - Spain
  (2) Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin - USA
  (3) Division of Nephrology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin - USA

• The MAURO study: baseline characteristics and compliance with guidelines targets
  

  Daniela Leonardis^1,2, Francesca Mallamaci^1,2, Giuseppe Enia^1,2, Maurizio Postorino^1,2, Giovanni Tripepi^1,2, Carmine Zoccali^1,2

  (1) Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera “Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli”, Reggio Calabria - Italy
  (2) and CNR-IBIM, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Reggio Calabria - Italy

• Pretransplant serum phosphate levels and outcomes after kidney transplantation
  

  Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze¹, Kamalpreet Parmar², S. Joseph Kim^1,2,3

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario - Canada
  (2) Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario - Canada
  (3) and Division of Nephrology and the Renal Transplant Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario - Canada

• Incidence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury associated with diagnostic or interventional coronary angiography
  

  Santo Morabito¹, Valentina Pistolesi¹, Giulia Benedetti², Angelo Di Roma², Riccardo Colantonio², Massimo Mancone², Gennaro Sardella², Loredana Cibelli¹, Mariacarmela Ambrosino¹, Francesca Polistena¹, Alessandro Pierucci¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology and Urology, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University, Rome - Italy
  (2) Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University, Rome - Italy

• Distinct impact of vitamin D insufficiency on calcitriol levels in chronic renal failure and renal transplant patients:
  

  Sandro Mazzaferro¹, Marzia Pasquali¹, Francesco Pugliese¹, Franco Citterio², Antonio Gargiulo², Silverio Rotondi¹, Lida Tartaglione¹, Carmina Conte¹, Giuliana Pirrò¹, Franco Taggi¹

  (1) Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological and Geriatric Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome - Italy
  (2) Department of Surgery, SacroCuore University of Rome and Department of Environment and Primary Prevention of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome - Italy

• Echocardiographic abnormalities in patients on kidney transplant waiting list
  

  Sofia G. Rocha¹, Nihil Chitalia^1,2, Helen Gregson¹, Juan C. Kaski³, Rajan Sharma³, Debasish Banerjee^1,2

  (1) Renal and Transplantation Unit, St. George’s Hospital, London - UK
  (2) and Cardiovascular Sciences Research Centre, St. George’s Hospital, University of London, London - UK
  (3) Cardiovascular Sciences Research Centre, St. George’s Hospital, University of London, London - UK

• Isonatric dialysis biofeedback in hemodiafiltration with online regeneration of ultrafiltrate (HFR): rationale and study
  

  Lucile Mercadal¹, Céline Piékarski², Jean-Louis Renaux², Thierry Petitclerc³, Gilbert Deray¹

  (1) Nephrology Department, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris, Paris - France
  (2) Bellco France, Paris - France
  (3) Biophysics Department, AURA Paris, Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty, Paris - France