Recent Journal Articles

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

• Oral Nicorandil to Reduce Cardiac Death After Coronary Revascularization in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Trial.
  
• Potential Role of Soluble ST2 Protein in Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome Recurrence Following Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Treatment of Pregabalin Toxicity by Hemodialysis in a Patient With Kidney Failure.
  
• Intradermal Versus Intramuscular Hepatitis B Vaccination in Hemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial in Nonresponders to Primary Vaccination.
  
• Association of Body Mass Index With Decline in Residual Kidney Function After Initiation of Dialysis.
  
• Hemodialysis Facility-Based Quality-of-Care Indicators and Facility-Specific Patient Outcomes.
  
• Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Kidney Allograft.
  
• beta(2)-Microglobulin and Phosphate Clearances Using a Wearable Artificial Kidney: A Pilot Study.
  
• Serum Bicarbonate Levels and the Progression of Kidney Disease: A Cohort Study.
  
• Endothelin Receptor Antagonism and Renin Inhibition as Treatment Options for Scleroderma Kidney.
  
• Cerebrovascular Disease Incidence, Characteristics, and Outcomes in Patients Initiating Dialysis: The Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD (CHOICE) Study.
  
• Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents in Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Mastery Learning of Temporary Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion by Nephrology Fellows Using Simulation Technology and Deliberate Practice.
  
• Dietary Phosphorus Restriction in Dialysis Patients: Potential Impact of Processed Meat, Poultry, and Fish Products as Protein Sources.
  
• Effect of pamidronate on bone loss after kidney transplantation: a randomized trial.
  
• Rapid Reversal of Acute Kidney Injury and Hospital Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  
• Lethal Cystic Kidney Disease in Amish Neonates Associated With Homozygous Nonsense Mutation of NPHP3.
  
• Long-term Risk of Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes After Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
  
• Drug-Drug Interaction in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Receiving HIV Salvage Therapy and Tacrolimus.
  
• Kidney Pathological Changes in Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Study.
  
• Immunogenicity of a Standard Trivalent Influenza Vaccine in Patients on Long-term Hemodialysis: An Open-Label Trial.
  
• Predictors of Hyporesponsiveness to Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents in Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Solute Clearances and Fluid Removal in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Trials.
  
• Methotrexate Clearance by High-Flux Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis: A Case Report.
  
• Proteinuria and Stroke: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies.
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Six-year dialysis freedom in end-stage renal disease.
  
• Comparison of oral falecalcitriol and intravenous calcitriol in hemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism: a randomized, crossover trial.
  
• The effect of RANKL and OPG on bone mineral density in pre-dialysis chronic renal failure.
  
• Transitory lupus anticoagulant antibodies leading to a quickly resolvable left ventricular thrombus in a young female patient on peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis complicated by emphysematous pyelonephritis in a hemodialysis patient.
  
• MRI-based kidney volume measurements in ADPKD: reliability and effect of gadolinium enhancement.
  
• Kidney stones and the risk for chronic kidney disease.
  
• Evaluation of nephrolithiasis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease patients.
  
• Living donor kidney transplantation without transmission of multiple sclerosis after 10 years.
  
• The link between lower serum magnesium and kidney function in patients with diabetes mellitus Type 2 deserves a closer look.
  
• Pancytopenia in a simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant recipient: an unexpected cause - a case of visceral leishmaniasis in a transplant recipient.
  
• Hemodialysis catheter placement via a persistent left superior vena cava.
  
• Similar Survival on Automated Peritoneal Dialysis and Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in a Large Prospective Cohort.
  
• Elevation of serum apelin-13 is positively correlated with ADMA in patients on maintenance hemodialysis.
  
• Pediatric Myocardial Stunning Underscores the Cardiac Toxicity of Conventional Hemodialysis Treatments.
  
• Mortality in systemic vasculitis: a systematic review.
  
• Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease in Japan: part of the nationwide rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis survey in Japan.
  

Kidney International

• The fallacy of 'alternative' medicine
  
• Dialysis: AURORA confirms lack of statin benefit in dialysis patients
  
• Hypertension: RF ablation of renal nerves
  
• High cut-off dialysis in myeloma
  
• Transplantation: Immunosuppression tapering in HLA-identical transplantation
  
• In brief
  
• Dialysis: Autologous grafts offer vascular access hope
  
• In brief
  
• Proteinuria: Increased angiotensin-receptor blocking is not the first option
  
• Dialysis: Phosphorus binders and survival: need for randomized trials
  
• Diabetes: Renal benefits of lowering BP in the absence of hypertension
  
• Transplantation: To convert or not to convert: lessons from the CONVERT trial
  
• Emerging therapies for chronic kidney disease: what is their role?
  
• Sexual dimorphism in the aging kidney: differences in the nitric oxide system
  
• Integrating albuminuria and GFR in the assessment of diabetic nephropathy
  
• Circadian sleep–wake rhythm disturbances in end-stage renal disease
  
• Malacoplakia presenting with obstructive nephropathy with bilateral ureter involvement
  
• Weibel–Palade bodies—sentinels of acute stress
  

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

• Angiogenesis in the kidney: a new therapeutic target?
  
• Advances in the pathogenesis and treatment of polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Mechanisms for increased cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney dysfunction.
  
• Association of cystatin C with adverse outcomes.
  
• Incidence, management, and outcomes of end-stage renal disease in the elderly.
  
• Nutrition therapy for acute renal failure: a new approach based on 'risk, injury, failure, loss, and end-stage kidney' classification (RIFLE).
  
• Acute kidney injury in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
  
• Interaction of intrarenal adenosine and angiotensin II in kidney vascular resistance.
  
• Mechanisms of kidney fibrosis and the role of antifibrotic therapies.
  
• Nitric oxide and kidney oxygenation.
  
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2: implications for blood pressure and kidney disease.
  
• Relaxin and the progression of kidney disease.
  

Seminars in Nephrology

• Bone disease in kidney transplant patients.
  
• Kidney disease outcomes quality initiative guidelines for bone and mineral metabolism: emerging questions.
  
• A structural approach to skeletal fragility in chronic kidney disease.
  
• The pathogenesis of vascular calcification in the chronic kidney disease mineral bone disorder: the links between bone and the vasculature.
  
• Bone histomorphometry in renal osteodystrophy.
  
• Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in chronic renal disease.
  
• Role of vitamin d in chronic kidney disease.
  
• Vitamin D therapy for chronic kidney disease.
  
• Assessment of body protein: energy status in chronic kidney disease.
  
• Why are chronic kidney disease patients anorexic and what can be done about it?
  
• Kidney disease in HIV-positive children.
  
• Nutrition support for the chronically wasted or acutely catabolic chronic kidney disease patient.
  
• Potential role of growth factors with particular focus on growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 in the management of chronic kidney disease.
  
• Why is protein-energy wasting associated with mortality in chronic kidney disease?
  
• End-stage renal disease and kidney transplant in HIV-infected patients.
  
• Do low-protein diets work in chronic kidney disease patients?
  
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease patients.
  
• Viruses and kidney disease: beyond HIV.
  
• Acute kidney injury in HIV-infected patients.
  

Nephron

• Colchicine-induced myopathy with normal creatine phosphokinase level in a renal transplant patient.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hyperkalemia.
  
• Pathogenesis and diagnosis of hyponatremia.
  
• Distinct role of nitric oxide and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in renal microcirculation. Studies in the isolated perfused hydronephrotic kidney.
  
• Cyclosporine or FK506 decrease mature epidermal growth factor protein expression and renal tubular regeneration in rat kidneys with ischemia/reperfusion injury.
  
• Clinical study of heparin-free hemodialysis with the inside of hollow fibers in dialyzer coated by human albumins.
  
• Infected Hepatic and Renal Cysts: Differential Impact on Outcome in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Overweight, Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Alcohol Consumption and Kidney Function in IgA Glomerulonephritis.
  

Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

• Contribution of subcutaneous fat accumulation to insulin resistance and atherosclerosis in haemodialysis patients.
  
• Multidisciplinary predialysis education decreases the incidence of dialysis and reduces mortality--a controlled cohort study based on the NKF/DOQI guidelines.
  
• Uric acid is associated with the rate of residual renal function decline in peritoneal dialysis patients.
  
• Thrice weekly warfarin administration in haemodialysis patients.
  
• Prescription of antihypertensive agents to haemodialysis patients: time trends and associations with patient characteristics, country and survival in the DOPPS.
  
• Recovery of renal function in end-stage renal failure--comparison between peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis.
  
• Interferon-gamma release assays versus tuberculin skin testing for detection of latent tuberculosis in chronic haemodialysis patients.
  
• Disordered mineral metabolism is not a risk factor for loss of residual renal function in dialysis patients.
  
• {alpha}-Lipoic acid prevents cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury in rats.
  
• Active visfatin is elevated in serum of maintenance haemodialysis patients and correlates inversely with circulating HDL cholesterol.
  
• Detection of the hepatitis C virus antigen in kidney tissue from infected patients with various glomerulonephritis.
  
• Cystatin C is correlated with mortality in patients with and without acute kidney injury.
  
• Glycaemic control in type 2 diabetic patients on chronic haemodialysis: use of a continuous glucose monitoring system.
  
• The cost-effectiveness of induction immunosuppression in kidney transplantation.
  
• Survival and dialysis initiation: comparing British Columbia and Scotland registries.
  
• Effects of endurance training on extrarenal potassium regulation and exercise performance in patients on haemodialysis.
  
• Alcohol consumption and 5-year onset of chronic kidney disease: the AusDiab study.
  
• Arterial calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• A comparison of observed versus estimated baseline creatinine for determination of RIFLE class in patients with acute kidney injury.
  
• Screening for kidney disease in vascular patients: SCreening for Occult REnal Disease (SCORED) experience.
  

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

• The Development of Urinary Biomarkers for Kidney Disease Is the Search for Our Renal Troponin.
  
• Type II Calcimimetics and Polycystic Kidney Disease: Unanswered Questions.
  
• Soluble thrombomodulin protects ischemic kidneys.
  
• Lessons from Geographic Variations in Predialysis Nephrology Care.
  
• Microvesicles from Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Protect against Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Reduced Production of Creatinine Limits Its Use as Marker of Kidney Injury in Sepsis.
  
• Molecular Correlates of Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Biopsies.
  
• CCR5 Deletion Protects Against Inflammation-Associated Mortality in Dialysis Patients.
  
• Plasma Gelsolin and Circulating Actin Correlate with Hemodialysis Mortality.
  
• Improving the recognition of hereditary interstitial kidney disease.
  
• Regulatory, Effector, and Cytotoxic T Cell Profiles in Long-Term Kidney Transplant Patients.
  
• Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant Waitlisting.
  
• Chordin-like 1 and Twisted Gastrulation 1 Regulate BMP Signaling following Kidney Injury.
  
• MMP9 and SCF protect from apoptosis in acute kidney injury.
  

Journal of the American Medical Association

• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Acid-Suppressive Medication Use and the Risk for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
  
• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice
  
• CORRECTION: Omission of Disclaimer in: Access to Kidney Transplantation Among Remote and Rural-Dwelling Patients With Kidney Failure in the United States
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Access to Kidney Transplantation Among Remote- and Rural-Dwelling Patients With Kidney Failure in the United States
  
• JAMA PATIENT PAGE: Kidney Transplantation
  
• Access to kidney transplantation among remote- and rural-dwelling patients with kidney failure in the United States.
  
• HEALTH AGENCIES UPDATE: DHHS Overhaul
  
• BNP-guided vs symptom-guided heart failure therapy: the Trial of Intensified vs Standard Medical Therapy in Elderly Patients With Congestive Heart Failure (TIME-CHF) randomized trial.
  
• Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.
  
• Bilateral deep brain stimulation vs best medical therapy for patients with advanced Parkinson disease: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Events in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Prospects for dietary therapy of recurrent nephrolithiasis.
  
• Hyporesponsiveness to erythropoiesis stimulating agents in chronic kidney disease: the many faces of inflammation.
  
• Intravenous iron versus erythropoiesis-stimulating agents: friends or foes in treating chronic kidney disease anemia?
  
• Past, present, and future of chronic kidney disease anemia management in the United States.
  
• What is so bad about a hemoglobin level of 12 to 13 g/dL for chronic kidney disease patients anyway?
  
• Cardiovascular effects of home intensive hemodialysis.
  
• Peritoneal dialysis patient selection: characteristics for success.
  
• Sleep disorders and home dialysis.
  
• Nocturnal home hemodialysis and short daily hemodialysis compared with kidney transplantation: emerging data in a new era.
  
• Radiology of urolithiasis: implications of radiation exposure and new imaging modalities.
  

New England Journal of Medicine

• EARLY RELEASE: Geographic Dependence, Surveillance, and Origins of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Virus
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Managing and Reducing Uncertainty in an Emerging Influenza Pandemic
  
• EARLY RELEASE: A Strategy for Health Care Reform -- Toward a Value-Based System
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Finding Money for Health Care Reform -- Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Tobacco, Public Health, and the FDA
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Synthetic Lethality -- A New Direction in Cancer-Drug Development
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Tumors from BRCA Mutation Carriers
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Rapid-Test Sensitivity for Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus in Humans
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Spread of a Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus via Global Airline Transportation
  
• EARLY RELEASE: The Persistent Legacy of the 1918 Influenza Virus
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Severe Respiratory Disease Concurrent with the Circulation of H1N1 Influenza
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Pneumonia and Respiratory Failure from Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) in Mexico
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Current Concepts: Historical Perspective -- Emergence of Influenza A (H1N1) Viruses
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Prioritizing Comparative-Effectiveness Research -- IOM Recommendations
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Comparative-Effectiveness Research -- Implications of the Federal Coordinating Council's Report
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Health Care TWOTHOUSANDNINE: The Role of Medical Liability Reform in Federal Health Care Reform
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Health Care TWOTHOUSANDNINE: A Win-Win Approach to Financing Health Care Reform
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Health Care TWOTHOUSANDNINE: The Individual Mandate -- An Affordable and Fair Approach to Achieving Universal Coverage
  
• PERSPECTIVE: A Higher Bar -- Vermont's New Law on Marketing Prescribed Products
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: M-Type Phospholipase A2 Receptor as Target Antigen in Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Epidemiologic Study of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Preoperative Staging of Lung Cancer with Combined PET-CT
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Renal and Retinal Effects of Enalapril and Losartan in Type 1 Diabetes
  
• SPECIAL ARTICLE: The Effect of Medicare Part D on Drug and Medical Spending
  
• REVIEW ARTICLE: Current Concepts: Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Telltale Triangle of Pneumoperitoneum
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Tattoo Allergy
  
• CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING: A Fragile Balance
  
• EDITORIAL: Human Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy -- A Mystery Solved?
  
• EDITORIAL: Diabetes Complications and the Renin-Angiotensin System
  
• CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BASIC RESEARCH: Cardiomyocyte Renewal
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Glucose Control in Critically Ill Patients
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Racial Differences in Heart Failure
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Rosuvastatin in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Cetuximab for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Moyamoya Disease and Moyamoya Syndrome
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: BRAF Mutation in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
  
• BOOK REVIEW: Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
  
• BOOK REVIEW: Diagnostic Microbiology of the Immunocompromised Host
  
• CORRECTIONS: Triple-Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H1) in Humans in the United States, 2005-2009
  
• CORRECTIONS: Emergence of a Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus in Humans
  
• CME: Epidemiologic Study of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly
  
• CME: Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury
  
• CME: A Fragile Balance