Vol. 1 — January-February 2011
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Epidemiology and pathophysiology of left ventricular abnormalities in chronic kidney disease: a review
Giovanni Cerasola1, Emilio Nardi1, Alessandro Palermo1, Giuseppe Mulè1, Santina Cottone2
(1) Chair of Internal Medicine, Department of InternalMedicine, Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases,University of Palermo, Palermo - Italy (Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension)
(2) Chair of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine,Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases, University ofPalermo, Palermo - Italy (Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension)
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Dietary acid load and rapid progression to end-stage renal disease of diabetic nephropathy in Westernized South Asian pe
Else van den Berg1,2, Frédérique A.P. Hospers3, Gerjan Navis1,2, Marielle F. Engberink1,4, Elizabeth J. Brink1,5, Johanna M. Geleijnse1,4, Marleen A. van Baak1,6, Rijk O.B. Gans3, Stephan J.L. Bakker1,2
(1) Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen - The Netherlands
(2) and Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
(3) Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
(4) and Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen - The Netherlands
(5) and TNO Quality of Life, Zeist - The Netherlands
(6) and Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, Department of Human Biology, Maastricht - The Netherlands
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Renal epithelioid angiomyolipoma: a malignant disease
Seema Varma1, Shilpi Gupta1, Jotica Talwar2, Frank Forte1, Meekoo Dhar1
(1) Sanford R. Nalitt Institute for Cancer and Blood Related Diseases, Staten Island, New York - USA
(2) Department of Pathology, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York - USA
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Inflammation in the pathophysiology of essential hypertension
Fabrizio Montecucco1, Aldo Pende2, Alessandra Quercioli3, François Mach1
(1) Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, University Hospital, Geneva - Switzerland
(2) Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa - Italy
(3) Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, University Hospital, Geneva - Switzerland and Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa - Italy
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Achieving effective pain relief in patients with chronic kidney disease: a review of analgesics in renal failure
Shobhana Nayak-Rao1
(1) Bahrain Specialist Hospital, Manama - Kingdom of Bahrain
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The management of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease
Vera Dounaevskaia1, Andrew T. Yan2, David Charytan3, Laura DiMeglio1, Howard Leong-Poi2, Abdul Al-Hesayen2, Marc B. Goldstein4, Ron Wald
(1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada
(2) Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - and The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto - Canada
(3) Division of Nephrology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston - USA
(4) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada
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The effect of anemia and left ventricular geometric patterns on renal disease progression in type 2 diabetic nephropathy
Sung Jin Moon1, Ki Sun Bae1, Hyeong Cheon Park1, Jwa Kyung Kim1, Jung Tak Park2, Jung Eun Lee3, Se Joong Rim1, Sung Kyu Ha1
(1) Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam SeveranceHospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul- Korea
(2) Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital,Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul - Korea
(3) Department of Internal Medicine, Yongin SeveranceHospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine,Gyeonggi - Korea
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Urinary monocyte chemotactic protein 1: marker of renal function decline in diabetic and nondiabetic proteinuric renal d
Roberta Camilla1, Soumeya Brachemi1, Vincent Pichette2, Pierre Cartier, Alexandra Laforest-Renald1, Tara MacRae1, François Madore1, Stéphan Troyanov1
(1) Nephrology Division, Sacré-Coeur Hospital of Montréal,Montréal, Québec - Canada
(2) Nephrology Division, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,Montréal, Québec - Canada
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Characterization of renal hemodynamic and structural alterations in rat models of renal impairment: role of renal sympat
Ibrahim M. Salman1, Omar Z. Ameer1, Munavvar A. Sattar1, Nor A. Abdullah2, Mun F. Yam1, Hafsa S. Najim1, Muthanna F. Abdulkarim1, Ghassan Z. Abdullah1, Gurjeet Kaur3, Md. Abdul Hye Khan4, Edward J. Johns5
(1) Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang - Malaysia
(2) Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
(3) Department of Integrative Medicine, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kepala Batas, Penang - Malaysia
(4) Department of Physiology, Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana - USA
(5) Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork - Republic of Ireland
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Hypercalcemia secondary to persistent hyperparathyroidism in kidney transplant patients: analysis after a year with cina
Rita Guerra1, Ingrid Auyanet1, Ernest J. Fernández1, Miguel Ángel Pérez1, Elvira Bosch1, Ana Ramírez1, Santiago Suria1, María Dolores Checa1
(1) Department of Nephrology, Hospital Insular de GranCanaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Spain
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Effect of a single hemodialysis session on endothelial dysfunction
Prabhakar Reddy Errakonda1, Ramakrishna Paladugu2, Aparna R. Bitla1, Suchitra M. Musturu1, Jayaseelan Lakshman3, Srinivasa Rao V.L.N. Pemmaraju1, Sivakumar Vishnubhotla1
(1) Department of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - India
(2) Department of Nephrology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - India
(3) Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu - India
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Bone morphogenetic protein-7 expression is down-regulated in human clear cell renal carcinoma
Nikolina Basic-Jukic1, Tvrtko Hudolin2, Margareta Radic-Antolic3, Marijana Coric4, Renata Zadro2, Zeljko Kastelan3, Josip Pasini3, Daniela Bandic-Pavlovic5, Petar Kes1
(1) Department of Dialysis, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(2) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(3) Department of Urology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(4) Department of Pathology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(5) Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
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Vitamin D supplementation and recombinant human erythropoietin utilization in vitamin D-deficient hemodialysis patients
Victoria A. Kumar1, Dean A. Kujubu1, John J. Sim1, Scott A. Rasgon2, Philip S. Yang3
(1) Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California - USA, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California - USA
(2) Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California - USA
(3) Private Consultant, Fontana, California - USA
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Effect of IL-11 on glomerular expression of TGF-beta and extracellular matrix in nephrotoxic nephritis in Wistar Kyoto r
Maria Stangou1, Gurjeet Bhangal1, Ping-Chin Lai2, Jennifer Smith1, James C. Keith Jr3, Joseph J. Boyle4, Charles D. Pusey1, Terence Cook5, Frederick W.K. Tam1
(1) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK
(2) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK and Kidney Institute, Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan - Taiwan
(3) Wyeth Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts - USA
(4) Department of Histopathology, Hammersmith Hospital, London - UK
(5) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK and Department of Histopathology, Hammersmith Hospital, London - UK
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Gypenosides inhibit renal fibrosis by regulating expression of related genes in rats with unilateral ureteral obstructio
Yong Zhang1, Jian-E Zhang1, Hou-Qin Xiao1, Ping-Yong Wu1, Shou-Jun Bai1
(1) Division of Nephrology, The Affiliated Taihe Hospital, Yunyang Medical College, Shiyan, Hubei - PR China
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High-sodium diet promotes a profibrogenic reaction in normal rat kidneys: effects of Tempol administration
María Inés Rosón1, Silvana Lorena Della Penna2, Gabriel Cao1, Susana Gorzalczany3, Marcela Pandolfo4, Carolina Cerrudo1, Belisario E. Fernández1, Jorge E. Toblli2
(1) 1 Department of Pathophysiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(2) 2 Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Alemán, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(3) 3 Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(4) 4 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
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Life-threatening hypercalcemia in patients with rhabdomyolysis-induced oliguric acute renal failure
Giorgio Graziani1, Albania Calvetta1, David Cucchiari1, Serenella Valaperta2, Alessandro Montanelli3
(1) 1 Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan - Italy
(2) 2 Biochemical and Clinical Laboratory, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan - Italy
(3) 2 Biochemical and Clinical Laboratory, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan – Italy
Giovanni Cerasola1, Emilio Nardi1, Alessandro Palermo1, Giuseppe Mulè1, Santina Cottone2
(1) Chair of Internal Medicine, Department of InternalMedicine, Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases,University of Palermo, Palermo - Italy (Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension)
(2) Chair of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine,Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases, University ofPalermo, Palermo - Italy (Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension)
Else van den Berg1,2, Frédérique A.P. Hospers3, Gerjan Navis1,2, Marielle F. Engberink1,4, Elizabeth J. Brink1,5, Johanna M. Geleijnse1,4, Marleen A. van Baak1,6, Rijk O.B. Gans3, Stephan J.L. Bakker1,2
(1) Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen - The Netherlands
(2) and Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
(3) Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands
(4) and Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen - The Netherlands
(5) and TNO Quality of Life, Zeist - The Netherlands
(6) and Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, Department of Human Biology, Maastricht - The Netherlands
Seema Varma1, Shilpi Gupta1, Jotica Talwar2, Frank Forte1, Meekoo Dhar1
(1) Sanford R. Nalitt Institute for Cancer and Blood Related Diseases, Staten Island, New York - USA
(2) Department of Pathology, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York - USA
Fabrizio Montecucco1, Aldo Pende2, Alessandra Quercioli3, François Mach1
(1) Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, University Hospital, Geneva - Switzerland
(2) Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa - Italy
(3) Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, University Hospital, Geneva - Switzerland and Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa - Italy
Shobhana Nayak-Rao1
(1) Bahrain Specialist Hospital, Manama - Kingdom of Bahrain
Vera Dounaevskaia1, Andrew T. Yan2, David Charytan3, Laura DiMeglio1, Howard Leong-Poi2, Abdul Al-Hesayen2, Marc B. Goldstein4, Ron Wald
(1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada
(2) Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - and The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto - Canada
(3) Division of Nephrology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston - USA
(4) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada
Sung Jin Moon1, Ki Sun Bae1, Hyeong Cheon Park1, Jwa Kyung Kim1, Jung Tak Park2, Jung Eun Lee3, Se Joong Rim1, Sung Kyu Ha1
(1) Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam SeveranceHospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul- Korea
(2) Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital,Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul - Korea
(3) Department of Internal Medicine, Yongin SeveranceHospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine,Gyeonggi - Korea
Roberta Camilla1, Soumeya Brachemi1, Vincent Pichette2, Pierre Cartier, Alexandra Laforest-Renald1, Tara MacRae1, François Madore1, Stéphan Troyanov1
(1) Nephrology Division, Sacré-Coeur Hospital of Montréal,Montréal, Québec - Canada
(2) Nephrology Division, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,Montréal, Québec - Canada
Ibrahim M. Salman1, Omar Z. Ameer1, Munavvar A. Sattar1, Nor A. Abdullah2, Mun F. Yam1, Hafsa S. Najim1, Muthanna F. Abdulkarim1, Ghassan Z. Abdullah1, Gurjeet Kaur3, Md. Abdul Hye Khan4, Edward J. Johns5
(1) Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang - Malaysia
(2) Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
(3) Department of Integrative Medicine, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kepala Batas, Penang - Malaysia
(4) Department of Physiology, Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana - USA
(5) Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork - Republic of Ireland
Rita Guerra1, Ingrid Auyanet1, Ernest J. Fernández1, Miguel Ángel Pérez1, Elvira Bosch1, Ana Ramírez1, Santiago Suria1, María Dolores Checa1
(1) Department of Nephrology, Hospital Insular de GranCanaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Spain
Prabhakar Reddy Errakonda1, Ramakrishna Paladugu2, Aparna R. Bitla1, Suchitra M. Musturu1, Jayaseelan Lakshman3, Srinivasa Rao V.L.N. Pemmaraju1, Sivakumar Vishnubhotla1
(1) Department of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - India
(2) Department of Nephrology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - India
(3) Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu - India
Nikolina Basic-Jukic1, Tvrtko Hudolin2, Margareta Radic-Antolic3, Marijana Coric4, Renata Zadro2, Zeljko Kastelan3, Josip Pasini3, Daniela Bandic-Pavlovic5, Petar Kes1
(1) Department of Dialysis, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(2) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(3) Department of Urology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(4) Department of Pathology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
(5) Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb - Croatia
Victoria A. Kumar1, Dean A. Kujubu1, John J. Sim1, Scott A. Rasgon2, Philip S. Yang3
(1) Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California - USA, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California - USA
(2) Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California - USA
(3) Private Consultant, Fontana, California - USA
Maria Stangou1, Gurjeet Bhangal1, Ping-Chin Lai2, Jennifer Smith1, James C. Keith Jr3, Joseph J. Boyle4, Charles D. Pusey1, Terence Cook5, Frederick W.K. Tam1
(1) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK
(2) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK and Kidney Institute, Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan - Taiwan
(3) Wyeth Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts - USA
(4) Department of Histopathology, Hammersmith Hospital, London - UK
(5) Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London - UK and Department of Histopathology, Hammersmith Hospital, London - UK
Yong Zhang1, Jian-E Zhang1, Hou-Qin Xiao1, Ping-Yong Wu1, Shou-Jun Bai1
(1) Division of Nephrology, The Affiliated Taihe Hospital, Yunyang Medical College, Shiyan, Hubei - PR China
María Inés Rosón1, Silvana Lorena Della Penna2, Gabriel Cao1, Susana Gorzalczany3, Marcela Pandolfo4, Carolina Cerrudo1, Belisario E. Fernández1, Jorge E. Toblli2
(1) 1 Department of Pathophysiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(2) 2 Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Alemán, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(3) 3 Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
(4) 4 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, INFIBIOC-CONICET, Buenos Aires - Argentina
Giorgio Graziani1, Albania Calvetta1, David Cucchiari1, Serenella Valaperta2, Alessandro Montanelli3
(1) 1 Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan - Italy
(2) 2 Biochemical and Clinical Laboratory, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan - Italy
(3) 2 Biochemical and Clinical Laboratory, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano-Milan – Italy
