Vol. 6 — November-December 2008

• Evaluating the performance of equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate
  

  Lesley A. Stevens¹, Yaping Zhang¹, Christopher H. Schmid¹

  (1) Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts - USA

• Focus on: Physical Exercise in Hemodialysis Patients
  

  Francesca Tentori¹

  (1) Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan - USA

• Therapy of hepatitis C virus–associated glomerulonephritis: current approaches
  

  Fabrizio Fabrizi¹, Giovanna Lunghi², Piergiorgio Messa³, Paul Martin⁴

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Maggiore Hospital, IRCCS Foundation, Milan - Italy, and Center for Liver Diseases, University School of Medicine, Miami, Florida - USA
  (2) Institute of Preventive Medicine, Maggiore Hospital, IRCCS Foundation, Milan - Italy
  (3) Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Maggiore Hospital, IRCCS Foundation, Milan - Italy
  (4) Center for Liver Diseases, University School of Medicine, Miami, Florida - USA

• Cardiovascular risk and cardiometabolic protection: role of glitazones
  

  Luisa Petrazzi¹, Davide Grassi¹, Lorella Polidoro¹, Azzurra D'Aurelio¹, Giuseppe Croce¹, Giuliana Properzi¹, Sergio Tiberti¹, Giovambattista Desideri¹, Claudio Ferri¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila - Italy

• Nephrotic syndrome: new concepts in the pathophysiology of sodium retention
  

  Miriam Zacchia¹, Francesco Trepiccione¹, Franco Morelli², Antonello Pani³, Giovambattista Capasso¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Naples - Italy
  (3) Department of Renal Diseases, Brotzu General Hospital, Cagliari - Italy

• Tissue-specific effect of VDR gene polymorphisms on the response to calcitriol
  

  Daniel Alvarez-Hernandez¹, Manuel Naves-Diaz¹, Carlos Gomez-Alonso¹, Eliecer Coto², Jorge B. Cannata-Andia¹

  (1) Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Instituto Reina Sofía de Investigación, REDinREN del ISCIII, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, University of Oviedo, Oviedo - Spain
  (2) Department of Molecular Genetics, Instituto Reina Sofía de Investigación, REDinREN del ISCIII, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, University of Oviedo, Oviedo - Spain

• Effects of tetrahydrobiopterin on nitric oxide bioavailability and renal hemodynamics in healthy volunteers
  

  Ferruh Artunc¹, Michael Essig¹, Nilguen Artunc¹, Claudia Plachtzik¹, Michael Reich¹, Gabriele Boehmer², Hans-Ulrich Haering¹, Christiane M. Erley³, Teut Risler¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen - Germany
  (2) Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen - Germany
  (3) St. Josef’s Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Charité Berlin, Berlin - Germany

• Italian randomized trial of hemoglobin maintenance to prevent or delay left ventricular hypertrophy in chronic kidney di
  

  Bruno Cianciaruso¹, Pietro Ravani², Brendan J. Barrett³, Adeera Levin⁴, ITA-EPO-7 investigators⁵

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University “Federico II” of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Azienda Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona, Cremona - Italy
  (3) Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland - Canada
  (4) Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada
  (5) No affiliation

• Acute and long-term effects of an exercise program for dialysis patients prescribed in hospital and performed at home
  

  Anna Maria Malagoni¹, Luigi Catizone², Simona Mandini¹, Silvia Soffritti², Roberto Manfredini³, Benedetta Boari⁴, Giorgia Russo², Nino Basaglia⁵, Paolo Zamboni¹, Fabio Manfredini^6,7

  (1) Vascular Diseases Center, University of Ferrara, Ferrara - Italy
  (2) Renal Unit, S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara - Italy
  (3) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Vascular Diseases Center, University of Ferrara, Ferrara - Italy
  (4) Department of Internal Medicine, S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara - Italy
  (5) Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara - Italy
  (6) Vascular Diseases Center, University of Ferrara, Ferrara
  (7) and Center for Biomedical Studies Applied to Sport, University of Ferrara, Ferrara - Italy

• ACE genotype, body weight changes and target organ damage in renal transplant recipients
  

  Piero Stratta^1,2, Carlo Smirne^1,2, Stefano Fangazio^1,2, Cristina Cornella^1,2, Elisa Lazzarich^1,2, Rosalba Minisini^1,2, Pierluigi Toniutto³, Carlo Fabris³, Cristina Barbé^1,2, Mario Pirisi^1,2

  (1) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara
  (2) and Interdisciplinary Research Center on Autoimmune Diseases (IRCAD), University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara - Italy
  (3) DPMSC, University of Udine, Udine - Italy

• Albumin induces interleukin-6 release from primary human proximal tubule epithelial cells
  

  Alex L. Pearson¹, Paul Colville-Nash¹, Jonathan T.C. Kwan¹, Mark E.C. Dockrell¹

  (1) South West Thames Institute for Renal Research, St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey - UK

• Survey of hidden costs of dialysis in Italian for-profit and not-for-profit centers
  

  Vincenzo Bellizzi¹, Francesco Perrone², Vincenzo Terracciano³, Emanuele Cucciniello¹, Giovanna Stanzione⁴, Pierluigi D'Angiò⁴, Luca De Nicola⁴, Biagio Di Iorio¹

  (1) Nephrology Division, “A. Landolfi” Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (2) Clinical Trial Office, National Cancer Institute of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (3) Nephrology Division, “Curto” Hospital, Polla - Italy
  (4) Nephrology Department, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy

• Acute effect of simvastatin on inflammation and oxidative stress in chronic kidney disease
  

  Claus D. Dummer¹, Fernando S. Thome'², Bianca Zingano³, Alberto Lindoso³, Francisco V. Veronese^4,5

  (1) Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Nephrology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
  (2) Nephrology Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
  (3) Medical School, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
  (4) Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Nephrology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
  (5) and Nephrology Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

• Prognostic factors in critically ill surgical patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy
  

  Jan Fertmann¹, Hilde Wolf¹, Helmut Kuchenhoff², Benjamin Hofner², Karl-Walter Jauch¹, Wolfgang H. Hartl¹

  (1) Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich - Germany
  (2) Statistical Consulting Unit, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich - Germany

• Effect of Jak2 kinase inhibition on Stat1 and Stat3 activation and apoptosis of tubular epithelial cells induced by ATP
  

  Jianzhong Wang¹, Chun Ouyang^2,3, Xiangmei Chen¹, Bo Fu¹, Yang Lu¹, Quan Hong¹

  (1) Kidney Institute and Key Laboratory of Chinese PLA, Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing - PR China
  (2) Kidney Institute and Key Laboratory of Chinese PLA, Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing
  (3) and Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing - PR China

• Effect of oxidative stress on antioxidant enzyme activities, homocysteine and lipoproteins in chronic kidney disease
  

  Aytac Atamer¹, Yuksel Kocyigit², Sabahat A. Ecder³, Sahabettin Selek⁴, Nevin Ilhan⁵, Tevfik Ecder⁶, Yildiz Atamer⁷

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Diyarbakir State Hospital, Diyarbakir - Turkey
  (2) Department of Physiology, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir - Turkey
  (3) Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul - Turkey
  (4) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Harran University Medical Faculty, S. Urfa - Turkey
  (5) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Firat University Medical Faculty, Elazig - Turkey
  (6) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul - Turkey
  (7) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir - Turkey

• High glucose effect on the role of CD146 in human proximal tubular epithelial cells in vitro
  

  Niansong Wang¹, Ying Fan¹, Peihua Ni², Feng Wang¹, Xuping Gao¹, Qin Xue¹, Lingquan Tang¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai - PR China
  (2) Department of Medical Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai - PR China

• Influence of interleukin-10 gene G-1082A polymorphism on recurrent IgA nephropathy
  

  Christos Bantis¹, Peter J. Heering¹, Sendogan Aker¹, Christina Schwandt¹, Bernd Grabensee¹, Katrin Ivens¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf - Germany

• UT-A expression in pars recta from a rat model of chronic renal failure
  

  Elsa Zotta¹, Federico Ochoa¹, Carla Tironi Farinati¹, Alicia Damiano¹, Claudia Silberstein¹, Nesmo Levy Yeyati¹, Cristina Ibarra¹

  (1) Physiopathogeny Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires - Argentina

• L-Arginine, ADMA, SDMA, creatinine, MDRD formula: detour to renal function testing
  

  Jan T. Kielstein¹, Jens Martens-Lobenhoffer², Stefan Vollmer³, Stefanie M. Bode-Böger²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover - Germany
  (2) Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg - Germany
  (3) Private Practice, Wäschbeuren - Germany

• Pseudoaneurysm of left colic artery after Tenckhoff catheter removal, with unrecognized fungal peritonitis
  

  Rapur Ram¹, Guditi Swarnalatha¹, Vibha Varma¹, Madhav Desai¹, Neela Prasad¹, Regulagadda A. Sastry¹, Kaligotla V. Dakshinamurty¹

  (1) Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Punjagutta, Hyderabad - India

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