Vol. 6 — November-December 2009

• Clinical research in pediatric nephrology: challenges, and strategies to address them
  

  Bethany J. Foster¹, Bradley A. Warady²

  (1) Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University School of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec - Canada
  (2) Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri - USA

• Vascular Calcification and QT interval in incident hemodialysis patients
  

  Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio¹, Emanuele Cucciniello¹, Vincenzo Bellizzi¹

  (1) Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Hospital Solofra, Solofra, Avellino - Italy

• Paired kidney donations to expand the living donor pool
  

  Paolo Ferrari^1,2, Marry De Klerk³

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Fremantle Hospital, Perth
  (2) and School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth - Australia
  (3) Internal Medicine-Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam - The Netherlands

• Transforming growth factor-ß as a treatment target in renal diseases
  

  Noboru Fukuda^1,2, Yoshiko Tahira³, Hiroyuki Matsuda⁴, Koichi Matsumoto³

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo
  (2) and Advanced Research Institute of Science and Humanities, Nihon University, Tokyo - Japan
  (3) Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo - Japan
  (4) Advanced Research Institute of Science and Humanities, Nihon University, Tokyo - Japan

• Arrhythmias in hemodialysis patients
  

  Luminita Voroneanu¹, Adrian Covic¹

  (1) Nephrology Clinic and Dialysis Center, Parhon University Hospital, “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi - Romania

• Effect of paraoxonase 1 gene polymorphisms on clinical course of Henoch-Schönlein purpura
  

  Alev Yilmaz¹, Sevinc Emre², Bedia Agachan³, Ilmay Bilge², Hulya Yilmaz³, Arzu Ergen³, Turgay Isbir³, Aydan Sirin²

  (1) Pediatric Nephrology Department, Bakirkoy Maternity and Children Hospital, Istanbul - Turkey
  (2) Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul - Turkey
  (3) Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Experimental Medical Research, Istanbul - Turkey

• Association between oxidant/antioxidant markers and proteinuria in type 2 diabetes: results in 142 patients
  

  Armin Rashidi¹, Manouchehr Nakhjavani¹, Alireza Esteghamati¹, Firuzeh Asgarani¹, Omid Khalilzadeh¹, Mehrshad Abbasi¹, Reza Safari¹

  (1) Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran - Iran

• Pattern of pediatric renal disease observed in native renal biopsies in Pakistan
  

  Ali Lanewala¹, Muhammed Mubarak², Fazal Akhter³, Sumayya Aziz¹, Sajid Bhatti³, Javed I. Kazi²

  (1) Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi - Pakistan
  (2) Department of Histopathology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi - Pakistan
  (3) Department of Nephrology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi - Pakistan

• Primary IgA nephropathy is more severe in TGF-ß1 high secretor patients
  

  Brigida Brezzi¹, Dorella Del Prete², Antonio Lupo¹, Riccardo Magistroni³, Macarena Gomez-Lira⁴, Patrizia Bernich¹, Franca Anglani², Federica Mezzabotta², Alberto Turco⁴, Luciana Furci³, Monica Ceol², Francesco Antonucci⁵, Cataldo Abaterusso¹, Luciana Bonfante², Angela D'Angelo², Alberto Albertazzi³, Giovanni Gambaro¹

  (1) Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Nephrology, University of Verona, Verona - Italy
  (2) Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Nephrology, University of Padova, Padova - Italy
  (3) Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena - Italy
  (4) Department of Genetics, University of Verona, Verona - Italy
  (5) Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology and Dialysis, General Hospital of Feltre, Feltre-Belluno - Italy

• Cool temperature hemodialysis and biocompatibility in chronic hemodialysis patients: a preliminary study
  

  Pierangela Presta¹, Giovanni Mazzitello¹, Laura Fuiano¹, Michele Andreucci¹, Valentina Piraina¹, Emanuela Laratta², Mara Riccio¹, Nicola Comi¹, Giorgio Fuiano¹

  (1) Nephrology Unit, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro - Italy
  (2) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro - Italy

• Recurrent urinary tract infection in girls: do urodynamic, behavioral and functional abnormalities play a role?
  

  Sarunas Rudaitis¹, Birute Pundziene¹, Mindaugas Jievaltas², Rimantas Uktveris¹, Egidijus Kevelaitis³

  (1) Clinic of Children Diseases, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas - Lithuania
  (2) Clinic of Urology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas - Lithuania
  (3) Department of Physiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas - Lithuania

• Inflammation modifies the association of osteoprotegerin with mortality in chronic kidney disease
  

  Keisuke Matsubara¹, Peter Stenvinkel¹, Abdul Rashid Qureshi¹, Juan Jesus Carrero¹, Jonas Axelsson¹, Olof Heimbürger¹, Peter Bárány¹, Anders Alvestrand¹, Bengt Lindholm¹, Mohamed E. Suliman²

  (1) Divisions of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm - Sweden
  (2) King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Evaluation of bone remodeling in hemodialysis patients: serum biochemistry, circulating cytokines and bone histomorphom
  

  Aníbal Ferreira¹, Maria Saraiva¹, Geert Behets², Ana Macedo³, Maria Galvão¹, Patrick D'Haese², Tilman B. Drüeke⁴

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisbon - Portugal
  (2) University of Antwerp, Antwerp - Belgium
  (3) Key-Point, Lisbon - Portugal
  (4) U-845 and Department of Nephrology, Necker Hospital, Paris - France

• Accepting or declining dialysis: considerations taken into account by elderly patients with end-stage renal disease
  

  Annemieke Visser¹, Geke J. Dijkstra¹, Daphne Kuiper¹, Paul E. de Jong², Casper F.M. Franssen², Ron T. Gansevoort², Gerbrand J. Izaks³, Kitty J. Jager⁴, Sijmen A. Reijneveld¹

  (1) Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
  (2) Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
  (3) Department of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
  (4) ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

• Peroxynitrite plays a key role in glomerular lesions in diabetic rats
  

  Hui Xiao¹, Yanning Li¹, Jinsheng Qi¹, Hui Wang², Kun Liu¹

  (1) Department of Biochemistry, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province - PR China
  (2) Department of Pathology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province - PR China

• Successful pregnancy in a female patient with congenital chloride diarrhea (CLD) and renal impairment
  

  Yoshio Shimizu¹, Tomohiro Kamoda¹, Michio Nagata¹, Keigyo Yoh¹, Yuko Hashimoto¹, Akira Matsui¹, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa¹, Kunihiro Yamagata¹, Akio Koyama²

  (1) Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki - Japan
  (2) Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami, Ibaraki - Japan