Vol. 5 — September-October 2012

• JN Editor-in-Chief Nomination
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• Microarray applications in nephrology with special focus on transplantation
  

  Thomas F. Mueller¹, Valeria R. Mas²

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta - Canada
  (2) Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System UVAHS, Charlottesville, Virginia - USA

• Population genetics of chronic kidney disease: The evolving story of APOL1
  

  Walter G. Wasser^1,2, Shay Tzur^3,4, Dawit Wolday⁵, Dwomoa Adu⁶, Donald Baumstein⁷, Saharon Rosset⁸, Karl Skorecki^3,4

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa - Israel
  (2) and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa - Israel
  (3) Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa - Israel
  (4) and Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa - Israel
  (5) Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
  (6) Renal Unit, Korle Bu Hospital, Accra - Ghana
  (7) Department of Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital/New York Medical College, New York - USA
  (8) Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv - Israel

• Bone-vascular cross-talk
  

  Gérard M. London¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier Manhès, Fleury Mérogis, and INSERM U970, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris - France

• Immunosuppressive treatment in primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
  

  Shizhang Xu^1,2, Gaosi Xu¹, Lei Zeng³

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang - PR China
  (2) and Medical Center of the Graduate School, Nanchang University, Nanchang - PR China
  (3) Department of Pathology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang - PR China

• Shedding new light on vasculitis: how the LAMP story unfolded
  

  Hansjörg Rothe¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, III Medical Department, Coburg General Hospital, Coburg - Germany

• Uremic pruritus
  

  Lara W. Kfoury¹, Makram A. Jurdi²

  (1) Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island - USA
  (2) Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee - USA

• Dialysate bath and QTc interval in patients on chronic maintenance hemodialysis: pilot study of single dialysis effects
  

  Biagio Di Iorio¹, Serena Torraca¹, Carmine Piscopo², Maria L. Sirico¹, Lucia Di Micco¹, Andrea Pota¹, Domenico Tartaglia¹, Lorella Berardino², Luigi F. Morrone³, Domenico Russo⁴

  (1) Complex Operative Unit of Nephrology, ASL Avellino, “A. Landolfi” Hospital, Solofra, Avellino - Italy
  (2) Complex Operative Unit of Medicine, ASL Avellino, “A. Landolfi” Hospital, Solofra, Avellino - Italy
  (3) Complex Operative Unit of Nephrology, “Rummo” Hospital, Benevento - Italy
  (4) Department of Nephrology, University of Naples “Federico II,” School of Medicine, Naples - Italy

• National primary care guidelines for England: impact on chronic kidney disease prevention in South Asian populations
  

  Emma Wilkinson¹, Gurch Randhawa¹, Paul Roderick², Tariq Rehman³, Talib Abubacker⁴

  (1) University of Bedfordshire, Luton - UK University of Bedfordshire, Luton - UK
  (2) University of Southampton, Southampton - UK
  (3) Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton - UK
  (4) Bell House Medical Centre, Luton - UK

• Adherence to treatment and hospitalization risk in hemodialysis patients
  

  Ruta Vaiciuniene¹, Vytautas Kuzminskis¹, Edita Ziginskiene¹, Inga Skarupskiene¹, Inga A. Bumblyte¹

  (1) Nephrology Department, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas - Lithuania

• Primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in nephrotic patients: common complications and risk factors
  

  Qingyan Zhang¹, Caihong Zeng¹, Zhen Cheng¹, Kenan Xie¹, Jiong Zhang¹, Zhihong Liu¹

  (1) Research Institute of Nephrology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing - PR China

• Symptoms of depression and anxiety over time in chronic hemodialysis patients
  

  Maurizio Bossola¹, Claudia Ciciarelli², Enrico Di Stasio³, Gian Luigi Conte², Manuela Antocicco⁴, Fausto Rosa³, Luigi Tazza¹

  (1) Dialysis Service, Department of Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome - Italy
  (2) Institute of Psychiatry, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome - Italy
  (3) Department of Clinical Chemistry, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome - Italy
  (4) Institute of Geriatrics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome - Italy

• Olmesartan medoxomil and azelnidipine therapy in patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease in Japan
  

  Ikuo Saito¹, Toshio Kushiro², Natsuko Zenimura³, Yasuyuki Matsushita³, Kei Sagawa³, Katsutoshi Hiramatsu³, Fumie Yamaguchi³

  (1) Keio University Health Center, Yokohama - Japan
  (2) Nihon University Health Planning Center, Tokyo - Japan
  (3) Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo - Japan

• Effect of early conversion from CNI to sirolimus on outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with allograft dysfunction
  

  Ernesto Paoletti¹, Elena Ratto¹, Diego Bellino¹, Luigina Marsano¹, Paolo Cassottana², Giuseppe Cannella¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, San Martino Hospital, Genova - Italy
  (2) Department of Cardiology, San Martino Hospital, Genova - Italy

• C-reactive protein as a predictor of cardiovascular events in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease
  

  Diana Jalal¹, Michel Chonchol¹, Thorleif Etgen², Dirk Sander³

  (1) Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado - USA
  (2) Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Munich, Munich - Germany
  (3) Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich - Germany

• Relationship between preoperative radial artery and postoperative arteriovenous fistula blood flow in hemodialysis patie
  

  Michiko Sato¹, Hiroaki Io¹, Mitsuo Tanimoto¹, Yoshio Shimizu¹, Mitsumine Fukui¹, Chieko Hamada¹, Satoshi Horikoshi¹, Yasuhiko Tomino¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo - Japan

• Epidemiology of primary nephrotic syndrome in Egyptian children
  

  Ahmed Kaddah¹, Samar Sabry¹, Emad Emil¹, Mona El-Refaey²

  (1) Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo - Egypt
  (2) Ministry of Health Hospitals, Cairo - Egypt

• C57BL/6 and 129/Sv mice: genetic difference to renal ischemia-reperfusion
  

  Xia Lu¹, Na Li², Nelli Shushakova^3,4, Roland Schmitt³, Jan Menne^3,4, Nathan Susnik³, Matthias Meier³, Michael Leitges^3,5, Hermann Haller³, Faikah Gueler³, Song Rong^3,6

  (1) Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of HUST, Wuhan - PR China
  (2) Department of Hematology, The Centre Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan - PR China
  (3) Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany
  (4) and Phenos GmbH, Hannover - Germany
  (5) and The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, University of Oslo, Oslo - Norway
  (6) and The Transplantation Center of the Affiliated Hospital, Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi - China

• Role of erythropoietin in prevention of amikacin-induced nephropathy
  

  Kubra Kaynar¹, Rezzan Aliyazioglu², Safak Ersoz³, Sukru Ulusoy¹, Sait Al⁴, Gulsum Ozkan¹, Muammer Cansiz¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon - Turkey
  (2) Department of Basic Science, School of Pharmacy, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon - Turkey
  (3) Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon - Turkey
  (4) Department of Surgery Research Center, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon - Turkey

• Effect of doxazosin on expression of eNOS in rat kidney in the presence of partial bladder outlet obstruction
  

  Omer Kutlu¹, Mehmet Yalcinkaya², Selcuk Kutlu², Gulsum O. Elpek³, Ismail T. Köksal², Erdal Kukul²

  (1) Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon - Turkey
  (2) Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya - Turkey
  (3) Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya - Turkey

• Total parathyroidectomy improves survival of hemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism
  

  Noriyuki Iwamoto¹, Nodoka Sato¹, Masaya Nishida¹, Tetsuya Hashimoto¹, Hiroyuki Kobayashi¹, Satoru Yamasaki¹, Toshihiko Ono¹, Masato Nishimura¹, Toshiko Tokoro¹, Chikako Sakoda¹, Mayuko Murakawa¹, Koji Okino¹, Yuu Okamoto¹, Ryo Imai¹, Naoto Adachi², Kanji Ninomiya², Hisao Mabuchi², Masaki Koyama³, Tsuneyuki Nakanouchi⁴, Kunitoshi Iseki⁵

  (1) Department of Urology, Tojinkai Hospital, Kyoto - Japan
  (2) Dialysis Unit, Mabuchi Clinic, Kyoto - Japan
  (3) Department of Urology, Nishijin Hospital, Kyoto - Japan
  (4) Department of Urology, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto - Japan
  (5) Dialysis Unit, University Hospital of the Ryukyus, Okinawa - Japan

• Acute kidney injury related to pregnancy in developing countries: etiology and risk factors in an intensive care unit
  

  Yassamine Bentata¹, Brahim Housni², Ahmed Mimouni³, Abderrahim Azzouzi⁴, Redouane Abouqal^5,6

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Medical School, University Mohamed First, Oujda - Morocco
  (2) Department of Anesthesia, Medical School, University Mohamed First, Oujda - Morocco
  (3) Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, University Mohamed First, Oujda - Morocco
  (4) Medical School, University Mohamed First, Oujda - Morocco
  (5) Medical Emergency Department, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat - Morocco
  (6) and Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Medical School, University Mohamed V, Rabat - Morocco

• ACE inhibitor or angiotensin II receptor blocker use is a risk factor for contrast-induced nephropathy
  

  Zia Umruddin¹, Kyaw Moe¹, Keith Superdock¹

  (1) The Lankenau Hospital and Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania - USA

• Identification of drug-related problems in ambulatory chronic kidney disease patients: a 6-month prospective study
  

  Stéphanie Belaiche^1,2, Thierry Romanet^1,2, Benoît Allenet^3,4, Jean Calop^3,4, Philippe Zaoui¹

  (1) Nephrology Clinic, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble - France
  (2) and Pharmacy Department, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble - France
  (3) Pharmacy Department, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble - France
  (4) and ThEMAS TIMC UMR CNRS 5525, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble - France

• The correlation of hip fracture and hyponatremia in the elderly
  

  Ramin Tolouian¹, Tarek Alhamad¹, Maryam Farazmand², Zuber D. Mulla^3,4

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas - USA
  (2) Department of Family Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas - USA
  (3) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas - USA
  (4) and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida - USA

• Risk factors associated with increased left ventricular mass index in chronic kidney disease patients evaluated using ec
  

  Mayumi Matsumoto¹, Hiroaki Io¹, Masako Furukawa¹, Kozue Okumura¹, Atsumi Masuda¹, Takuya Seto¹, Miyuki Takagi¹, Michiko Sato¹, Lili Nagahama¹, Keisuke Omote¹, Atsuko Hisada¹, Satoshi Horikoshi¹, Yasuhiko Tomino¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo - Japan

• Podocalyxin-positive glomerular epithelial cells in urine correlate with a positive outcome in FSGS
  

  Janina Mueller-Deile¹, Philipp Kümpers², Johannes Achenbach¹, Joon-Keun Park¹, Michael Mengel³, Hermann Haller¹, Mario Schiffer¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany
  (2) Division of General Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine D, University Hospital Münster, Münster - Germany
  (3) Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta - Canada

• Validation of some pathophysiological mechanisms of the CKD progression theory and outcome prediction in IgA nephropathy
  

  Maurizio Gallieni¹, Claudio Bazzi², Virginia Rizza¹, Daniela Casellato³, Gilda Stivali⁴, Gregorio Rachele⁴, Pietro Napodano³, Giulia Olivieri¹, Giuseppe D’Amico²

  (1) Biochemical Laboratory, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan - Italy
  (2) D’Amico Foundation for Renal Diseases Research, Milan - Italy
  (3) Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan - Italy
  (4) Baxter Renal, Rome - Italy

• Do topical antibiotics reduce exit site infection rates and peritonitis episodes in peritoneal dialysis patients? The Pa
  

  Andrew Davenport¹, Pan Thames Renal Audit Peritoneal Dialysis Group *²

  (1) UCL Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital, University College London Medical School, London - UK
  (2) * See Appendix for list of members

• The effect of different doses and types of intravenous iron on oxidative stress and inflammation in hemodialysis patient
  

  Abdulbaki Kumbasar¹, Meltem Gursu², Cagdas Kaya¹, Savas Ozturk², Abdulkadir Ergen¹, Ahu Kemik³, Zeki Aydin², Sami Uzun², Serhat Karadag², Rumeyza Kazancioglu⁴

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul - Turkey
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul - Turkey
  (3) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul - Turkey
  (4) Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul - Turkey

• Normal fractional urate excretion identifies hyponatremic patients with reset osmostat
  

  Louis J. Imbriano^1,2, Ekambaram Ilamathi^1,2, Nicole M. Ali^1,2, Nobuyuki Miyawaki^1,2, John K. Maesaka^1,2

  (1) Department of Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York - USA
  (2) and SUNY Stony Brook Medical School at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York - USA

• Reversible acute encephalopathy with mutism, induced by calcineurin inhibitors after renal transplantation
  

  Katia Toledo Perdomo¹, María-Dolores Navarro Cabello¹, María-José Pérez Sáez¹, Manuel José Ramos Pérez², Maria Luisa Agüera Morales¹, Pedro Aljama García¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba - Spain
  (2) Department of Radiology, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba - Spain

• Awareness of kidney diseases in general population and in high school students. Italian report for World Kidney Days 201
  

  Y. Battaglia¹, L. Russo¹, R. Spadola¹, D. Russo¹, Local Coordinators

  (1) Chair of Nephrology, Department of Systemic Pathology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples - Italy