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Headlines

• Large Study of Anemia Treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Not on Dialysis Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Failed to Meet Primary Efficacy Endpoints (biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• Intensive Dialysis Doesn't Save Lives of the Sickest (news.google.com)
  
• Coronary Calcification in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Coronary Artery Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD (nephron.org)
  
• Patients and Dialysis Health Workers Urged to take the Flu Vaccine (nephron.org)
  
• Kidney Beginnings Live in Houston October 3 (nephron.com)
  
• 4 Houston Doctors Honored for Wellness Activities (houstonhealthbook.com)
  
• Weight Loss is Good for the Kidneys (www.eurekalert.org)
  
• Grady Hospital Dialysis Unit - Fly Patients to Their Home Country (www.ajc.com)
  
• 10 Years Sarcoma Free - Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation Honors Nephron.com Founder (www.sarcomacancer.org)
  

Top Stories

• ASN: Statin Does Not Enhance Sensitivity to Anemia Treatment (CME/CE)(www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• ASN: No Clinical Benefit for ESA in Anemic Patients with Diabetes, CKD (CME/CE)(www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• Large Study of Anemia Treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Not on Dialysis Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Failed to Meet Primary Efficacy Endpoints(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Affymax: Hematide helped treat anemia in dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• Why the Threat of Bird Flu Hasn't Flown Away (news.google.com)
  
• ASN: HCV Changes Dialysis Treatment Needs (CME/CE)(www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• ASN: Anabolic Steroid Abuse May Damage Kidneys (CME/CE)(www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• Earlier May Not Be Better For Preemptive Kidney Transplants (news.google.com)
  
• Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• AMAG 3Q loss narrows slightly on anemia drug sales(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Effect of darbepoetin alfa on renal anemia in Japanese hemodialysis patients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Dialysis patient dies after ambulance taking her to hospital crashes on I-75 Ohio - Cleveland News (news.google.com)
  
• Blood-Pressure Control and Delay in Progression of Kidney Disease in Children(content.nejm.org)
  
• Intensive Dialysis Doesn't Save Lives of the Sickest (news.google.com)
  
• Metabolic factors and microinflammatory state promote kidney injury in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Response to 'High-volume peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury'.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Not a process of simple vicariousness, the differentiation of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells to renal tubular epithelial cells plays an important role in acute kidney injury repairing.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Coronary blood flow in patients with end-stage renal disease assessed by thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame count method.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Renal Dendritic Cells Ameliorate Nephrotoxic Acute Kidney Injury.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Open renal biopsy: comorbidities and complications in a contemporary series.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Chronic kidney disease among men with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• The relationship between transforming growth factor beta1 expression and cold ischemia injury of rat donor kidney.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and Contrast Medium-Induced Nephropathy: A Choice between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea for Patients with Reduced Renal Function?(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Chronic renal insufficiency, cardiovascular disease and mortality in women: a causal relationship or coincidence?(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Population Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenetics of Tacrolimus in De Novo Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  

Medicare and Policy

• Affymax: Hematide helped treat anemia in dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• Earlier May Not Be Better For Preemptive Kidney Transplants (news.google.com)
  
• Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• Earlier Not Necessarily Better When Receiving A Kidney Transplant (news.google.com)
  
• Earlier May Not Be Better For Preemptive Kidney Transplants (news.google.com)
  
• Younger Doctors Recommend Kidney Transplantations Earlier (news.google.com)
  
• Barry, Dickens Push for Kidney Donations (news.google.com)
  
• Peritoneal dialysis is under used in kidney failure patients. - St. Louis Post(news.google.com)
  
• Salem co-worker donates kidney (news.google.com)
  
• More kidney patients avoiding dialysis on path to transplant (news.google.com)
  

Financial News

• Dialysis giant Davita zeroing in on Colorado site (news.google.com)
  
• DaVita Facilities Lead Delaware in Improving Kidney Patient Care(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• DaVita Facilities Lead Delaware in Improving Kidney Patient Care (news.google.com)
  
• AMGEN INC Files SEC form 8-K, Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• PROMACTA Awarded 2009 Prix Galien for Best Biotechnology Product(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Fresenius Medical Care Offers Annual Seasonal and H1N1 Flu ... (news.google.com)
  
• Bristol-Myers gets EU approval for diabetes drug(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Baxter's H1N1 Vaccine Gets a Boost (biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Siperian Congratulates Merck for Being Named a Finalist for the Gartner Master Data Management Excellence Award(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Merck KGaA Named as a Top Employer by Science Magazine(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Merck KGaA Receives Family Business Excellence Award(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Baxter Announces the Commercial Launch of HYLENEX at ACEP for Use in Pediatric Rehydration(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Kellogg Asset Management Picks Amgen and Baxter As Large Cap Growth Winners: Denosumab and GAMMAGARD Will Unlock The Upside For These Two Health Care Stocks(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Kellogg Asset Management Picks Amgen and Baxter: Denosumab and GAMMAGARD Will Unlock The Upside For These Two Health Care Stocks(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Abbott Keeps Dealing With Solvay Purchase(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• DaVita Named the Only Kidney Care Company in NEWSWEEK's Inaugural Green Rankings(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Bolder BioTechnology Receives $1.2 Million NIH Grant to Continue Development of Long-Acting EPO Analog for Chronic Kidney Disease(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• New Data Shows DaVita Facilities Lead Virginia in Improving Kidney Patient Care(biz.yahoo.com)
  
• New Data Shows DaVita Facilities Lead Virginia in Improving Kidney ... (news.google.com)
  
• Fresenius Launches KidneyTel(www.renalbusiness.com)
  

Pharma

• Introducing the AMCP eDossier System: A New System to Support Evidence-Based Formulary Decision Making(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Brainstorm Announces Milestone Towards ALS Clinical Trials(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Allos Therapeutics Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Coldpack to Preview New Pharmaceutical Pouch at PACK EXPO(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Good news for Albertans in the fight against leading cause of age-related vision loss(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• BIO Announces Future BIO International Convention Venues(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Diversified Pharmas Top Ethical Ranking - Covalence Health Care Sector Report 2009 | Press Release | Geneva (Switzerland), 5 October 2009(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Millipore Corporation Awards Flow Cytometer to Advance Cell Biology Research at Renowned Research Hospital(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Alnylam to Webcast Presentation at the Fourth Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference(www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Clinical Data, Inc. to Host Investor Day and Webcast October 8, 2009(www.pharmalive.com)
  

Science

• Link Between Male Diabetics With Allergies And Kidney Disease -- Nothing To Sneeze At(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Link Found Between Depression, Early Stages Of Chronic Kidney Disease(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Heart Test Found Safe For Pre-transplant Kidney Patients(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Gene Linked With Human Kidney Aging(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Suffering Caused By Dialysis For Nursing Home Seniors May Outweigh Its Benefits, Researchers Find(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• For Kidney Disease Patients, Staying Active Might Mean Staying Alive(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Phthalates Hard To Avoid In Food: Junk Food No Worse Than Healthful Food For These Potentially Harmful Substances(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• full story(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Global Death Toll: One Million Premature Babies Every Year(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Minimally Invasive Procedure Effective For Treating Snoring, Study Finds(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• New Type Of Genetic Change Identified In Inherited Cancer(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur Like Ballerina(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Food 'Tattoos' An Alternative To Labels For Identifying Fruit(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Microbiology: Free-for-all On The Leaf Surface(www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Tai Chi May Be An Effective Treatment For Dizziness, Balance Issues(www.sciencedaily.com)
  

Medicine

• Influenza A(H1N1)v pandemic in the dialysis population: first wave results from an international survey.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Does stenting for atherosclerotic renovascular disease improve blood pressure and kidney function better than medical treatment?(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Effect of hepatitis C virus on hemoglobin and hematocrit levels in saudi hemodialysis patients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Long-term evaluation of inmune response to hepatitis B vaccine in 136 patients undergoing hemodialysis.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Occult hepatitis B virus infection and lamivudine-resistant mutations in isolates from renal patients undergoing hemodialysis.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Atypical clinical presentation of H1N1 influenza in a dialysis patient.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Mutagenicity of Immunosuppressive Medications among Renal Transplant Recipients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• [Traditional medicine in kidney diseases in Burkina Faso.](www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• [A rare cause of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis: Haemophilus influenzae](www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Planned creation of vascular access saves medical expenses for incident dialysis patients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  

Recent FDA Announcements

• FDA Approves New Treatment for Advanced Form of Kidney Cancer(www.fda.gov)
  
• FDA Approves New Treatment for Advanced Form of Kidney Cancer(www.fda.gov)
  
• U.S. Attorney News Release: Veal Company Charged in Case of Tainted Feed(www.fda.gov)
  
• FDA Orders Postmarket Surveillance Studies on Certain Spinal Systems(www.fda.gov)
  
• USDA Joins FDA Efforts on New Food Safety Regulations(www.fda.gov)
  
• Philips Heartstart Fr2+ Automated External Defibrillators - Recall(www.fda.gov)
  
• FDA Consumer Health Information Updates: FDA's Cooperative Programs Improve Food Safety(www.fda.gov)
  
• Niles, Ill. Firm Issues Allergy Alert on Classic Candy(www.fda.gov)
  
• Philips Issues Worldwide Recall of Select Heartstart Fr2+ Automated External Defibrillators(www.fda.gov)
  
• FDA Opens the Reportable Food Registry Electronic Portal for Industry(www.fda.gov)
  
• OCEAN MIST FARMS Announces Precautionary, Voluntary Recall of 1,746 Cases of Iceless Green Onions(www.fda.gov)
  
• TEXAS COFFEE Company Recalls Red Pepper Because of Possible Health Risk(www.fda.gov)
  
• Georgia Agriculture Department Finds Listeria in Sample of Eggo Buttermilk Waffles at Atlanta Plant(www.fda.gov)
  
• Philips Avalon Fetal Monitors(www.fda.gov)
  
• FDA, European Medicines Agency Launch Good Clinical Practices Initiative(www.fda.gov)
  

Health Information Technology

• ASN: Statin Does Not Enhance Sensitivity to Anemia Treatment (CME/CE)(www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• Effects of pioglitazone on subclinical atherosclerosis and insulin resistance in nondiabetic renal allograft recipients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Potential utility of PPARalpha activation in the prevention of ischemic and drug-induced acute renal damage.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Is Buckle Surgery Still the State of the Art for Retinal Detachments Due to Retinal Dialysis?(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Renal Dendritic Cells Ameliorate Nephrotoxic Acute Kidney Injury.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Open renal biopsy: comorbidities and complications in a contemporary series.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Sevelamer carbonate increases serum bicarbonate in pediatric dialysis patients.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Chronic kidney disease among men with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• The relationship between transforming growth factor beta1 expression and cold ischemia injury of rat donor kidney.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• C-reactive protein and dialysis access.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

• Three-Dimensional Imaging Reveals Ureteric and Mesenchymal Defects in Fgfr2-Mutant Kidneys.
  
• Trps1 Functions Downstream of Bmp7 in Kidney Development.
  
• Significance and Management of Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  
• Allograft Biopsies: Studying Them for All They're Worth.
  
• Dexamethasone Ameliorates Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.
  
• Molecular Phenotypes of Acute Rejection Predict Kidney Graft Prognosis.
  
• The PPAR{gamma} Agonist Pioglitazone Ameliorates Aging-Related Progressive Renal Injury.
  
• Planar Cell Polarity and the Kidney.
  
• Donor Age and Renal P-Glycoprotein Expression Associate with Chronic Histological Damage in Renal Allografts.
  
• Six-Month Prophylaxis Is Cost Effective in Transplant Patients at High Risk for Cytomegalovirus Infection.
  
• Method of Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimation Affects Prediction of Mortality Risk.
  
• Proliferation and Migration of Label-Retaining Cells of the Kidney Papilla.
  
• Viral RNA and DNA trigger common antiviral responses in mesangial cells.
  
• ESRD as a Window into America's Cost Crisis in Health Care.
  
• Insight versus Quagmire with Compound HIV Transgenics.
  
• CKD Associates with Cognitive Decline.
  
• Embryonic Stem Cells Proliferate and Differentiate when Seeded into Kidney Scaffolds.
  
• Combination of Peritubular C4d and Transplant Glomerulopathy Predicts Late Renal Allograft Failure.
  
• Biased Agonist Pharmacochaperones of the AVP V2 Receptor May Treat Congenital Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus.
  
• Does a Statistical Method Suggest a New Pathobiology for Hemodialysis Patients?
  
• TCF7L2 Polymorphism Associates with New-Onset Diabetes after Transplantation.
  
• Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Glomerulonephritis: The Bad Guy Turns Good?
  
• {beta}-Catenin Promotes Survival of Renal Epithelial Cells by Inhibiting Bax.
  
• Renal Volume, Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System, Hypertension, and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Improving the recognition of hereditary interstitial kidney disease.
  
• DASH-Style Diet Associates with Reduced Risk for Kidney Stones.
  
• Measuring Patient Survival on Hemodialysis.
  
• The Soluble VEGF Receptor sFlt1 Contributes to Endothelial Dysfunction in CKD.
  
• Reduction of Stat3 Activity Attenuates HIV-Induced Kidney Injury.
  
• Hydrogen Sulfide-Induced Hypometabolism Prevents Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury.
  
• Modification of Collagen IV by Glucose or Methylglyoxal Alters Distinct Mesangial Cell Functions.
  
• Decreased Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in a Mouse Model of Fabry Disease.
  
• Epac Regulates UT-A1 to Increase Urea Transport in Inner Medullary Collecting Ducts.
  
• Renal FcRn Reclaims Albumin but Facilitates Elimination of IgG.
  
• Hypotonicity-Induced Renin Exocytosis from Juxtaglomerular Cells Requires Aquaporin-1 and Cyclooxygenase-2.
  
• Urinary NGAL Marks Cystic Disease in HIV-Associated Nephropathy.
  
• Wnt/{beta}-Catenin Signaling Promotes Podocyte Dysfunction and Albuminuria.
  
• Renal Primary Cilia Lengthen after Acute Tubular Necrosis.
  
• Arterial Stiffness in Mild-to-Moderate CKD.
  
• Bicarbonate Supplementation Slows Progression of CKD and Improves Nutritional Status.
  
• X inactivation, female mosaicism, and sex differences in renal diseases.
  
• IL-23, not IL-12, directs autoimmunity to the Goodpasture antigen.
  
• The renal lesions of Alport syndrome.
  
• Urine podocyte mRNAs mark progression of renal disease.
  
• Reduction of renal superoxide dismutase in progressive diabetic nephropathy.
  
• Type II Calcimimetics and Polycystic Kidney Disease: Unanswered Questions.
  
• The Development of Urinary Biomarkers for Kidney Disease Is the Search for Our Renal Troponin.
  
• Soluble thrombomodulin protects ischemic kidneys.
  
• Molecular Correlates of Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Biopsies.
  
• Plasma Gelsolin and Circulating Actin Correlate with Hemodialysis Mortality.
  

CJASN

• Kidney Transplantation in the Context of Renal Replacement Therapy.
  
• Coronary Calcification in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Coronary Artery Disease.
  
• Predictors of Relapse and End Stage Kidney Disease in Proliferative Lupus Nephritis: Focus on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults.
  
• Is maximum conservative management an equivalent treatment option to dialysis for elderly patients with significant comorbid disease?
  
• Randomized Controlled Trial of Icodextrin versus Glucose Containing Peritioneal Dialysis Fluid.
  
• Key Comorbid Conditions that Are Predictive of Survival among Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Mineral metabolism and inflammation in chronic kidney disease patients: a cross-sectional study.
  
• Hemodialysis-Induced Repetitive Myocardial Injury Results in Global and Segmental Reduction in Systolic Cardiac Function.
  
• The Journey From Vitamin D-Resistant Rickets to the Regulation of Renal Phosphate Transport.
  
• Scaling of measured glomerular filtration rate in kidney donor candidates by anthropometric estimates of body surface area, body water, metabolic rate, or liver size.
  
• Can we personalize treatment for kidney diseases?
  
• Correlates and Outcomes of Fatigue among Incident Dialysis Patients.
  
• Combining Near-Subject Absolute and Relative Measures of Longitudinal Hydration in Hemodialysis.
  
• Predictors of Complication after Percutaneous Ultrasound-Guided Kidney Biopsy in HIV-Infected Individuals: Possible Role of Hepatitis C and HIV Co-infection.
  
• The Alphabet Soup of Kidney Transplantation: SCD, DCD, ECD--Fundamentals for the Practicing Nephrologist.
  
• Weight loss interventions in chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  
• Bone Disease in Medullary Sponge Kidney and Effect of Potassium Citrate Treatment.
  
• Evaluation of Trial Outcomes in Acute Kidney Injury by Creatinine Modeling.
  
• Oral Cyclophosphamide for Lupus Glomerulonephritis: An Underused Therapeutic Option.
  
• Biomarkers for Lupus Nephritis: The Quest Continues.
  
• Mineralocorticoid Receptor Blockers and Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Arteriovenous Fistula Affects Bone Mineral Density Measurements in End-Stage Renal Failure Patients.
  
• Determinants of Decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate in Nonproteinuric Subjects with or without Diabetes and Hypertension.
  
• Long-Term Outcome of Adults Who Undergo Transplantation with Single Pediatric Kidneys: How Young Is too Young?
  
• Vitamin D and the Cardiovascular System.
  
• Technical Breakthroughs in the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK).
  
• Kidney stones and the risk for chronic kidney disease.
  
• Interferon for Hepatitis C Virus in Hemodialysis--an Individual Patient Meta-analysis of Factors Associated with Sustained Virological Response.
  
• Antiplatelet medications in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review of bleeding rates.
  
• MicroRNAs and their role in progressive kidney diseases.
  
• Introduction to the Second Annual Rostand Vitamin D Symposium.
  
• Clinical Outcomes with Active versus Nutritional Vitamin D Compounds in Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Hydration status does not influence peritoneal equilibration test ultrafiltration volumes.
  
• Calcium, parathyroid hormone, and vitamin D: major determinants of chronic pain in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Hypertension and the Kidney: Perspectives on the Relationship of Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease.
  
• Increased Efficiency of Hemodialysis with Citrate Dialysate: A Prospective Controlled Study.
  
• The Natural History of the Non-Nephrotic Membranous Nephropathy Patient.
  
• Contrast-induced nephropathy and long-term adverse events: cause and effect?
  
• Rituximab treatment of adult patients with steroid-resistant focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  
• Prehypertension: is it relevant for nephrologists?
  
• Risk Factors for Cyclosporin A Nephrotoxicity in Children with Steroid-Dependant Nephrotic Syndrome.
  
• Complement Inhibitor Eculizumab in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.
  
• Renal phenotype in Lowe Syndrome: a selective proximal tubular dysfunction.
  
• Renal biopsy in the very elderly.
  
• Iron-related proteins: candidate urine biomarkers in childhood HIV-associated renal diseases.
  
• Pediatric Myocardial Stunning Underscores the Cardiac Toxicity of Conventional Hemodialysis Treatments.
  

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

• Intradialytic Hypertension: A Less-Recognized Cardiovascular Complication of Hemodialysis.
  
• Maintenance of Kidney Function Following Treatment With Eculizumab and Discontinuation of Plasma Exchange After a Third Kidney Transplant for Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Associated With a CFH Mutation.
  
• Embolic Complications From Central Venous Hemodialysis Catheters Used With Hypertonic Citrate Locking Solution.
  
• Glomerular Collapse Associated With Subtotal Renal Infarction in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Multiple Renal Arteries.
  
• Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Among Potential Kidney Transplant Candidates: Approaches and Controversies.
  
• Ascorbic Acid for Anemia Management in Hemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
  
• Association Between Achievement of Hemodialysis Quality-of-Care Indicators and Quality-of-Life Scores.
  
• Change in Vascular Access and Mortality in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Linezolid-Associated Acute Interstitial Nephritis and Drug Rash With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome.
  
• Development of Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease After Remission From Perinuclear ANCA-Associated Glomerulonephritis in a Patient With HLA Susceptibility.
  
• Blood Pressure and Decline in Kidney Function in Patients With Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: A Cohort Study.
  
• Soluble CD14 Levels, Interleukin 6, and Mortality Among Prevalent Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Dialysis Delivery in Canada and the United States: A View From the Trenches.
  
• Five Decades of Indian Nephrology: A Personal Journey.
  
• CKD in MYH9-Related Disorders.
  
• Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Prevalence, Prognosis, and Evidence-Based Management.
  
• Association of Soluble Endotoxin Receptor CD14 and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis.
  
• Induction Antibody Therapy in Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Glucose control by the kidney: an emerging target in diabetes.
  
• Effect of Clinical Variables and Immunosuppression on Serum Cystatin C and Beta-Trace Protein in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  
• Serum Sickness After Treatment With Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Previous Rabbit Exposure.
  
• Effects of Exercise Training on Noninvasive Cardiac Measures in Patients Undergoing Long-term Hemodialysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  
• Sodium Bicarbonate Plus Isotonic Saline Versus Saline for Prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  
• Growth Restriction at Birth and Kidney Function During Childhood.
  
• Association of Kidney Function With Residual Hypertension After Treatment of Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma.
  
• Serum Cystatin C for Prediction of Dialysis Requirement or Death in Acute Kidney Injury: A Comparative Study.
  
• Hemoglobinuria and Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis Following Intravenous Immunoglobulin Infusion.
  
• Successful Treatment With Retinoids in Patients With Lupus Nephritis.
  
• Phosphate Removal With Several Thrice-Weekly Dialysis Methods in Overweight Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Mortality and Technique Failure in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Using Advanced Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions.
  
• The Burden of Amputation Among Hemodialysis Patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).
  
• Cardiovascular disease in CKD in children: update on risk factors, risk assessment, and management.
  
• Effect of a Carbonaceous Oral Adsorbent on the Progression of CKD: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial.
  
• Oral Paricalcitol in the Treatment of Patients With CKD and Proteinuria: A Randomized Trial.
  
• Effect of hydrochlorothiazide on urinary calcium excretion in dent disease: an uncontrolled trial.
  
• Fanconi Syndrome Due to Deferasirox.
  
• Tacrolimus therapy in adults with steroid- and cyclophosphamide-resistant nephrotic syndrome and normal or mildly reduced GFR.
  
• An Intradialysis Diagnostic Test for Restless Legs Syndrome: A Pilot Study.
  
• 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.
  
• Mastery Learning of Temporary Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion by Nephrology Fellows Using Simulation Technology and Deliberate Practice.
  
• Effect of pamidronate on bone loss after kidney transplantation: a randomized trial.
  
• Drug-Drug Interaction in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Receiving HIV Salvage Therapy and Tacrolimus.
  
• Kidney Pathological Changes in Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Study.
  
• Long-term Risk of Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes After Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
  
• Proteinuria and Stroke: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies.
  

Kidney International

• The price of a kidney
  
• Prevention: Lifestyle affects risk of hypertension and kidney stones
  
• Acute kidney injury: uNGAL—a marker of moderate utility in critically ill adults
  
• Diagnosis: Urinary IgM predicts cardiovascular events and renal disease in diabetes
  
• Diabetes: Albuminuria and eGFR predict cardiovascular and renal risk
  
• In brief
  
• Dialysis: Urine output predicts successful cessation of CRRT
  
• In brief
  
• Transplantation: Time to rethink immunosuppression by mTOR inhibitors?
  
• Glomerular disease: Sugars and immune complex formation in IgA nephropathy
  
• Transplantation: Supplemental vitamin D: will do no harm and might do good
  
• Dialysis: Intradermal HBV vaccination is preferable in non-responders
  
• Nephrotic syndrome: A watershed in the understanding of membranous nephropathy
  
• Transplantation: Personalizing induction therapy in kidney transplantation
  
• Serum free light chain assessment in monoclonal gammopathy and kidney disease
  
• Selective iNOS inhibition for the treatment of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury
  
• Mechanisms of the cardiorenal syndromes
  
• Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes
  
• Angiogenic factor abnormalities and fetal demise in a twin pregnancy
  

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

• Mesenchymal stem cell interactions with growth factors on kidney repair.
  
• Susceptibility genes in common complex kidney disease.
  
• Acid-base regulation of angiotensin receptors in the kidney.
  
• Systematic approach for the management of chronic kidney disease: moving beyond chronic kidney disease classification.
  
• Pig islets for clinical islet xenotransplantation.
  
• Lymphocyte markers and prediction of long-term renal allograft acceptance.
  
• The Bioartificial Kidney in the Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Acute kidney injury in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
  
• The regulation of proximal tubular salt transport in hypertension: an update.
  
• Advanced kidney disease, gadolinium and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: the perfect storm.
  
• Should proteinuria reduction be the criterion for antihypertensive drug selection for patients with kidney disease?
  
• Do osteocytes contribute to phosphate homeostasis?
  
• The glomerular filter: an imperfect barrier is required for perfect renal function.
  
• Uric acid: a novel mediator and marker of risk in chronic kidney disease?
  
• Drug interactions in transplant patients: what everyone should know.
  
• Should diuretics always be included as initial antihypertensive management in early-stage CKD?
  
• Pendrin as a regulator of ECF and blood pressure.
  
• Is replacement therapy with nutritional and active forms of vitamin D required in chronic kidney disease mineral and bone disorder?
  
• Molecular physiology of the thiazide-sensitive sodium-chloride cotransporter.
  
• Cellular physiology of the renal H+ATPase.
  

Seminars in Nephrology

• Analysis of multidisciplinary care models and interface with primary care in management of chronic kidney disease.
  
• The chronic kidney disease epidemic: a challenge for nephrology training programs.
  
• Chronic kidney disease epidemic: cost and health care implications in china.
  
• Obesity and chronic kidney disease.
  
• The UK Model for System Redesign and Chronic Kidney Disease Services.
  
• Current status of chronic kidney disease care in southeast Asia.
  
• Lipoprotein lipase disturbances induced by uremia and hemodialysis.
  
• Should dialysis modalities be designed to remove specific uremic toxins?
  
• Uremic toxins in acute kidney injury.
  
• Acute kidney injury in HIV-infected patients.
  
• Hyponatremia: case vignettes.
  
• Cell and molecular biology of kidney development.
  
• Pediatric chronic kidney disease and the process of health care transition.
  
• The brain in hyponatremia: both culprit and victim.
  
• The syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH).
  
• The treatment of hyponatremia.
  
• Current advances in chronic kidney disease in children: growth, cardiovascular, and neurocognitive risk factors.
  
• Epidemiology of hyponatremia.
  
• Exercise-associated hyponatremia.
  
• Genetic testing: considerations for pediatric nephrologists.
  
• Hereditary renal tubular disorders.
  
• Hyponatremia in the intensive care unit.
  
• Update on childhood urinary tract infection and vesicoureteral reflux.
  
• Pediatric nephrotic syndrome: from the simple to the complex.
  
• Pediatric approach to hypertension.
  
• Nephron mass and cardiovascular and renal disease risks.
  
• Treatment of bleeding in dialysis patients.
  
• A renal protocol for all ages and all indications: mercapto-acetyl-triglycine (MAG3) with simultaneous injection of furosemide (MAG3-F0): a 17-year experience.
  
• HIV-associated nephropathy: clinical presentation, pathology, and epidemiology in the era of antiretroviral therapy.
  
• Estimating glomerular filtration rate in patients with HIV infection.
  
• Pathogenesis of HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• Bone disease in kidney transplant patients.
  
• Kidney disease outcomes quality initiative guidelines for bone and mineral metabolism: emerging questions.
  

Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

• Effects of pioglitazone on subclinical atherosclerosis and insulin resistance in nondiabetic renal allograft recipients.
  
• Glucose tolerance before and after renal transplantation.
  
• An in-vitro tumour microenvironment model using adhesion to type I collagen reveals Akt-dependent radiation resistance in renal cancer cells.
  
• Black renal transplant recipients have poorer long-term graft survival than CYP3A5 expressers from other ethnic groups.
  
• Acute antibody-mediated rejection after ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation treated successfully with antigen-specific immunoadsorption.
  
• Evaluation of clinical dry weight assessment in haemodialysis patients using bioimpedance spectroscopy: a cross-sectional study.
  
• Expression of renin-angiotensin system signalling compounds in maternal protein-restricted rats: effect on renal sodium excretion and blood pressure.
  
• Improved growth and cardiovascular risk after late steroid withdrawal: 2-year results of a prospective, randomised trial in paediatric renal transplantation.
  
• First and subsequent nonmelanoma skin cancers: incidence and predictors in a population of New Zealand renal transplant recipients.
  
• The effect of the World Kidney Day campaign on the awareness of chronic kidney disease and the status of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and renal progression.
  
• Nail changes in kidney transplant recipients.
  
• Similar renal decline in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with comparable levels of albuminuria.
  
• Presentation and survival of patients with severe acute kidney injury and multiple myeloma: 20-year experience from a single centre.
  
• Effect of icodextrin dialysis solution on body weight and fat accumulation over time in CAPD patients.
  
• Impact of daclizumab, low-dose cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil and steroids on renal function after kidney transplantation.
  
• Effects of icodextrin peritoneal dialysis solution on the peritoneal membrane in the STZ-induced diabetic rat model with partial nephrectomy.
  
• Analysis of TSHZ2 and TSHZ3 genes in congenital pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction.
  
• Increased urinary losses of carnitine and decreased intramitochondrial coenzyme a in gentamicin-induced acute renal failure in rats.
  
• Survival of transplanted and dialysed patients in a French region with focus on outcomes in the elderly.
  
• Tempol or candesartan prevents high-fat diet-induced hypertension and renal damage in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
  

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Hyporesponsiveness to erythropoiesis stimulating agents in chronic kidney disease: the many faces of inflammation.
  
• Radiology of urolithiasis: implications of radiation exposure and new imaging modalities.
  
• Acute kidney injury after liver, heart, and lung transplants: dialysis modality, predictors of renal function recovery, and impact on survival.
  
• The epidemiology and prevention of donor-derived infections.
  
• Combined heart-kidney transplantation: a review of recipient selection and patient outcomes.
  
• Renal replacement therapy in the liver transplant candidate.
  
• Kidney transplantation: the ideal immunosuppression regimen.
  
• Simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation in the MELD era.
  
• Living kidney donors: current state of affairs.
  
• Current and upcoming erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, iron products, and other novel anemia medications.
  
• What is so bad about a hemoglobin level of 12 to 13 g/dL for chronic kidney disease patients anyway?
  
• Intravenous iron versus erythropoiesis-stimulating agents: friends or foes in treating chronic kidney disease anemia?
  
• Iron and clinical outcomes in dialysis and non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease patients.
  
• Current concepts in the pathophysiology and management of arteriovenous access-induced hand ischemia.
  
• Restorative physical and occupational therapy: a critical need for patients with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease.
  
• Exercise training and reduction of cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• Anabolic and catabolic mechanisms in end-stage renal disease.
  
• Determinants of exercise capacity in CKD patients treated with hemodialysis.
  
• Kidney transplantation: a systematic review of interventional and observational studies of physical activity on intermediate outcomes.
  
• The intersection of geriatrics and chronic kidney disease: frailty and disability among older adults with kidney disease.
  

New England Journal of Medicine

• Fiscal Responsibility and Health Care Reform
  
• Setbacks and Fissions -- Reconsidering the Scope and Timing of Reform
  
• The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited
  
• Health Care Reform and Clinical Culture
  
• Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Policy -- Considering the Early Evidence
  
• Cross-Reactive Antibody Responses to the 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus
  
• Response after One Dose of a Monovalent Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Vaccine -- Preliminary Report
  
• Trial of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent MF59-Adjuvanted Vaccine -- Preliminary Report
  
• Hospitalized Patients with 2009 H1N1 Influenza in the United States, April-June 2009
  
• Critical Care Services and 2009 H1N1 Influenza in Australia and New Zealand
  
• Balancing Innovation, Access, and Profits -- Market Exclusivity for Biologics
  
• Medicaid and National Health Care Reform
  
• HIV Vaccine Trial Results -- An Opening for Further Research
  
• Combined Immunodeficiency Associated with DOCK8 Mutations
  
• Vaccination with ALVAC and AIDSVAX to Prevent HIV-1 Infection in Thailand
  
• Massachusetts Health Care Reform -- Near-Universal Coverage at What Cost?
  
• A Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine in Various Age Groups
  
• Communal Responsibility for Health Care -- The Example of Benefit Assessment in Germany
  
• Ensuring Progress in Primary Care -- What Can Health Care Reform Realistically Accomplish?
  
• Which Medicine, Which America?
  
• Primary Care and Accountable Care -- Two Essential Elements of Delivery-System Reform
  
• Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease -- Strategies Based on Evidence
  
• A Trial of Darbepoetin Alfa in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease
  
• The Emergency Use Authorization of Peramivir for Treatment of 2009 H1N1 Influenza
  
• Interleukin-10 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  
• The American Public and the Next Phase of the Health Care Reform Debate
  
• Not "Socialized Medicine" -- An Israeli View of Health Care Reform
  
• Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers
  
• Compromises and Controversies -- Moving Forward on Reform
  
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Mutations Affecting the Interleukin-10 Receptor
  
• Cost Expansion versus Cost Control -- Lessons from the Canadian System
  
• Reform and the Health Care Workforce -- Current Capacity, Future Demand
  
• Physicians' Views of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law -- A Poll
  
• Doctors, Patients, and the Need for Health Care Reform
  
• Litigation amidst Reform -- The Boston Medical Center Case
  
• Payment Reform for Safety-Net Institutions -- Improving Quality and Outcomes
  
• Novel H1N1 Influenza and Respiratory Protection for Health Care Workers
  
• On-Pump versus Off-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery
  
• Vaccination against HPV-16 Oncoproteins for Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia
  
• A Peptide-Based Erythropoietin-Receptor Agonist for Pure Red-Cell Aplasia
  
• Brief Report: Normal Spermatogenesis in a Man with Mutant Luteinizing Hormone
  
• Mechanisms of Disease: Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  
• Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
  
• Ankle-Brachial Index for Assessment of Peripheral Arterial Disease
  
• Peripartum Diastasis of the Symphysis Pubis
  
• Injection-Site Lipoatrophy
  
• A Bloody Mystery
  
• Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals
  
• Innovation and Comparative-Effectiveness Research in Cardiac Surgery
  
• Human Papillomavirus Vaccine for Cancer Prevention
  
• End Run around Epo
  
• The Microcytic Red Cell and the Anemia of Inflammation
  
• Endoscopic versus Open Vein-Graft Harvesting
  
• Perioperative Safety and Bariatric Surgery
  
• Risk of Confusion in Dosing Tamiflu Oral Suspension in Children
  
• CDC and FDA Response to Risk of Confusion in Dosing Tamiflu Oral Suspension
  
• Long-Term Effect of Diabetes and Its Treatment on Cognitive Function
  
• Denosumab for Prevention of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis
  
• DNA Damage, Aging, and Cancer
  
• CME: On-Pump versus Off-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery
  
• CME: Vaccination against HPV-16 Oncoproteins for Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia
  
• CME: Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
  

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