Annals ofNephrology

Volume: 4 - Number: 40 - November 15, 2006

Outstanding

Relationship of gender, age, and body mass index to errors in predicted kidney function

Five-year follow-up of patients with epidemic glomerulonephritis due to Streptococcus zooepidemicus

Vasopressin, not octreotide, may be beneficial in the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome: a retrospective study

Impairment of skin microvascular reactivity in hypertension and uraemia

Editorial commentaries

Slit or pore? A mutation of the ion channel TRPC6 causes FSGS

Cardio-renal failure: an emerging clinical entity

Why thermosensing? A primer on thermoregulation

Melagatran anticoagulation during haemodialysis—‘Primum non nocere’

Original Articles

Relationship of gender, age, and body mass index to errors in predicted kidney function

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease based on estimated glomerular filtration rate and proteinuria in Icelandic adults

Five-year follow-up of patients with epidemic glomerulonephritis due to Streptococcus zooepidemicus

Vasopressin, not octreotide, may be beneficial in the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome: a retrospective study

Impairment of skin microvascular reactivity in hypertension and uraemia

Altered status of glutathione and its metabolites in cystinotic cells

Sodium retention in rats with liver cirrhosis is associated with increased renal abundance of NaCl cotransporter (NCC)

Influence of a Pre-Dialysis Education Programme (PDEP) on the mode of renal replacement therapy

Hypertonic glucose-based peritoneal dialysate is associated with higher blood pressure and adverse haemodynamics as compared with icodextrin

Variability in quality of care among dialysis units in western Switzerland

Ultrasound imaging findings of femoral veins in patients with renal failure and its impact on vascular access

The effects of chronic kidney disease and renal replacement therapy on circulating dendritic cells

Effects of oral vitamin C supplementation on oxidative stress and inflammation status in haemodialysis patients

Revisiting mortality predictability of serum albumin in the dialysis population: time dependency, longitudinal changes and population-attributable fraction

Prevention of clot formation during haemodialysis using the direct thrombin inhibitor melagatran in patients with chronic uraemia

MIBI scintigraphy, indicators of cell proliferation and histology of parathyroid glands in uraemic patients

Downregulation of parathyroid hormone receptor gene expression and osteoblastic dysfunction associated with skeletal resistance to parathyroid hormone in a rat model of renal failure with low turnover bone

Acupuncture in haemodialysis patients at the Quchi (LI11) acupoint for refractory uraemic pruritus