Annals ofNephrology

Volume: 6 - Number: 55 - February 15, 2008

Outstanding

Low birth weight does not increase the risk of nephropathy in Finnish type 1 diabetic patients

Patients receiving maintenance dialysis have more severe functionally significant skeletal muscle wasting than patients with dialysis-independent chronic kidney disease

High-efficiency short daily haemodialysis—morbidity and mortality rate in a long-term study

Switching immunosuppression medications after renal transplantation—a common practice

Brief Reports

Effects of bisphosphonates on bone loss in the first year after renal transplantation—a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Renal transplant dysfunction—importance quantified in comparison with traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease and mortality

Cases Reports

Glyoxylate reductase activity in blood mononuclear cells and the diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria type 2

Clinical Nephrology

Low birth weight does not increase the risk of nephropathy in Finnish type 1 diabetic patients

Renal glucose excretion as a function of blood glucose concentration in subjects with type 2 diabetes—results of a hyperglycaemic glucose clamp study

Polynocturia in chronic kidney disease is related to natriuresis rather than to water diuresis

Geographic, ethnic, age-related and temporal variation in the incidence of end-stage renal disease in Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region, 1998–2003

Dialysis and Transplantation

Mortality risk factors in chronic haemodialysis patients with infective endocarditis

Relation of haemofilter type to venous catheter resistance is crucial for filtration performance and haemocompatibility in CVVH—an in vitro study

Racial disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease among incident end-stage renal disease patients

Patients receiving maintenance dialysis have more severe functionally significant skeletal muscle wasting than patients with dialysis-independent chronic kidney disease

Evolution of bone and plasma concentration of lanthanum in dialysis patients before, during 1 year of treatment with lanthanum carbonate and after 2 years of follow-up

Dialysis dose (Kt/V) and clearance variation sensitivity using measurement of ultraviolet-absorbance (on-line), blood urea, dialysate urea and ionic dialysance

High-efficiency short daily haemodialysis—morbidity and mortality rate in a long-term study

Positive effect of dietary soy in ESRD patients with systemic inflammation—correlation between blood levels of the soy isoflavones and the acute-phase reactants

Catheter lock solutions influence staphylococcal biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces

Switching immunosuppression medications after renal transplantation—a common practice

Risk factors for chronic transplant dysfunction and cardiovascular disease are related to accumulation of advanced glycation end-products in renal transplant recipients

Reduced graft function (with or without dialysis) vs immediate graft function—a comparison of long-term renal allograft survival

Technical Notes

Bovine ureter graft for haemodialysis access surgery