Annals ofNephrology

Volume: 4 - Number: 34 - May 15, 2006

Outstanding

Characteristics and risk factors of intrarenal arterial lesions in patients with IgA nephropathy

Very low calorie diets and hypokalaemia: the importance of ammonium excretion

Jaccoud's nephritis

Serum albumin: a late-reacting negative acute-phase protein in clinically evident inflammation in dialysis patients

Cases Reports

Effective therapeutic use of rituximab in refractory Wegener's granulomatosis

Recovery from anti-recombinant-human-erythropoietin associated pure red cell aplasia in end-stage renal disease patients after renal transplantation

Invasive apergillosis with myocardial involvement after kidney transplantation

Desquamative interstitial pneumonia associated with concurrent cytomegalovirus and Aspergillus pneumonia in a renal transplant recipient

Images in Nephrology

Biliary casts in the kidney tubule

Emphysematous cystitis

Interesting Case

Resolution of thrombotic microangiopathy following renal transplant

Letters and Replies

High-protein diets are not hazardous for the healthy kidneys

Serum albumin: a late-reacting negative acute-phase protein in clinically evident inflammation in dialysis patients

Drug interaction between sevelamer and cyclosporin

Sevelamer and pharmacokinetics of cyclosporin A after kidney transplantation

Nephroquiz

Jaccoud's nephritis

Original Articles

Antibodies against mesangial cells in a rat model of chronic renal allograft rejection

Macrophage-derived interleukin-18 in experimental renal allograft rejection

Serum creatinine is a poor marker of GFR in nephrotic syndrome

A genome scan for all-cause end-stage renal disease in African Americans

Characteristics and risk factors of intrarenal arterial lesions in patients with IgA nephropathy

Teaching Points

Very low calorie diets and hypokalaemia: the importance of ammonium excretion

Virchow–Troisier's node in a haemodialysed patient: it is not always cancer