Recent Journal Articles

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

• GFR Estimated From Cystatin C Versus Creatinine in Children Born Small for Gestational Age.
  
• Depressive disorder in renal transplantation: an analysis of Medicare claims.
  
• Oral calcitriol for the treatment of persistent proteinuria in immunoglobulin A nephropathy: an uncontrolled trial.
  
• Overweight, Obesity, and the Development of Stage 3 CKD: The Framingham Heart Study.
  
• Educational level as a determinant of access to and outcomes after kidney transplantation in the United States.
  
• A review of albumin binding in CKD.
  
• Randomized controlled trial of nutritional counseling on body composition and dietary intake in severe CKD.
  
• Variation in age at ESRD in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Asymmetric dimethylarginine and lipid peroxidation products in early autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Differential expression of proteins from cultured endothelial cells exposed to uremic versus normal serum.
  
• Primary hyperoxaluria: clinical course, diagnosis, and treatment after kidney failure.
  
• Osmotic nephrosis: acute kidney injury with accumulation of proximal tubular lysosomes due to administration of exogenous solutes.
  
• Delivery of multifactorial interventions by nurse and dietitian teams in a community setting to prevent diabetic complications: a quality-improvement report.
  
• A longitudinal study of risk factors for incident albuminuria in diabetic American Indians: the Strong Heart Study.
  
• Pharmacodynamics of unfractionated heparin during and after a hemodialysis session.
  
• Severe lactic acidosis associated with juice of the mangosteen fruit Garcinia mangostana.
  
• Novel COL4A3 mutations in African American siblings with autosomal recessive Alport syndrome.
  
• Accelerated venovenous hemofiltration: early technical and clinical experience.
  
• Metabolic syndrome and self-reported history of kidney stones: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) 1988-1994.
  
• Predictive power of sequential measures of albuminuria for progression to ESRD or death in Pima Indians with type 2 diabetes.
  
• Renal biopsy findings in children and adolescents with Fabry disease and minimal albuminuria.
  
• Familial focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with an ACTN4 mutation and paternal germline mosaicism.
  
• Standardization of serum creatinine and estimated GFR in the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP).
  
• The History of Renal Transplantation in the Arab World: A View From Saudi Arabia.
  
• Mutations in Proteins of the Alternative Pathway of Complement and the Pathogenesis of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.
  
• Aminoglycoside-associated Fanconi syndrome.
  
• Genetic testing for X-linked Alport syndrome by direct sequencing of COL4A5 cDNA from hair root RNA samples.
  
• Mucormycosis peritonitis: more than 2 years of disease-free follow-up after posaconazole salvage therapy after failure of liposomal amphotericin B.
  
• Diagnosis of medullary sponge kidney by computed tomographic urography.
  
• Reproductive issues for adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Novel OCRL1 mutations in patients with the phenotype of Dent disease.
  
• Clinical characteristics and long-term follow-up of patients with renal vein thrombosis.
  
• Contributory metabolic factors in the development of nephrolithiasis in patients with medullary sponge kidney.
  
• Renal cortical necrosis related to paraneoplastic antiphospholipid syndrome.
  
• Albuminuria and estimated GFR 5 years after Escherichia coli O157 hemolytic uremic syndrome: an update.
  
• Autosomal recessive renal proximal tubulopathy and hypercalciuria: a new syndrome.
  
• Herbs and the kidney.
  
• Thirty-five years of hemodialysis: two case reports as a tribute to Nils Alwall.
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Coronary artery and other vascular calcifications in patients with cystinosis after kidney transplantation.
  
• Genetic susceptibility, HIV infection, and the kidney.
  
• Clear cell renal carcinoma presenting as a bleeding cyst in pregnancy: inaugural manifestation of a von Hippel-Lindau disease.
  
• Renal protection in diabetes: is it affected by glucose control or inhibition of the renin-angiotensin pathway?
  
• Patient and technique survival of diabetics on peritoneal dialysis: one-center's experience and review of the literature.
  
• Hepatitis C virus-related kidney disease: an overview.
  
• Therapeutic management of a new case of LCAT deficiency with a multifactorial long-term approach based on high doses of angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs).
  
• Headache during hemodialysis - an uncommon cause for a common problem.
  
• Switch of ESA therapy from darbepoetin-alpha to epoetin-beta in hemodialysis patients: a single-center experience.
  
• Rapidly deteriorating renal function with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Type 1 associated with hepatitis C treated successfully with steroids and antiviral therapy: a case report and review of literature.
  
• Novel Links between the Long Pentraxin 3, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Albuminuria in Early and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• An infantile case of Hinman syndrome with severe acute renal failure.
  
• Successful relatively low-dose corticosteroid therapy for diclofenac-induced acute interstitial nephritis with severe renal failure.
  
• Analysis of the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma.
  
• Acute renal cortical necrosis in a series of young men with severe acute pancreatitis.
  
• Renal parenchymal oxygenation and hypoxia adaptation in acute kidney injury.
  
• Importance and repercussions of renal and cardiovascular pathology on stroke in young adults: an anatomopathologic study of 52 clinical necropsies.
  
• Rust Urine after Intense Hand Drumming Is Caused by Extracorpuscular Hemolysis.
  
• Peri-aortofemoral Prosthesis Urinoma: Diagnosis by Tc-99m MAG3 SPECT/CT and Differentiation From Simultaneous Hepatobiliary Excretion.
  
• Bilateral macular sub-retinal fluid and retinal pigment epithelial detachment associated with type 2 membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis.
  
• Cold Exposure-induced Rhabdomyolysis Demonstrated by Bone Scintigraphy.
  
• Successful treatment of nephrotic syndrome due to systemic AL amyloidosis after autologous stem cell transplantation: renal response is an important therapeutic end point.
  
• Clinical manifestation of gadodiamide-related nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
  
• Acute renal failure after antibiotic-impregnated bone cement treatment of an infected total knee arthroplasty.
  
• Effect of oral mizoribine pulse therapy for frequently relapsing steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome.
  
• Protein-osmolality ratio for quantification of proteinuria in children.
  
• Late-onset nephropathic cystinosis: clinical presentation, outcome, and genotyping.
  
• Fanconi's syndrome and distal (type 1) renal tubular acidosis in a patient with primary Sjögren's syndrome with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.
  
• [Hypophosphatemic rickets/osteomalacia. - Mainly on patients with PHEX mutations -]
  
• [FGF23-related hypophosphatemic rickets/osteomalacia]
  
• Remission of a B cell CLL-associated membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Type I with rituximab and bendamustine.
  
• Oxalate nephropathy with a granulomatous lesion due to excessive intake of peanuts.
  
• Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease in Japan: part of the nationwide rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis survey in Japan.
  
• Electron microscopic examination of the anterior lens capsule in a case of Alport's syndrome.
  
• Calcimimetics as an Adjuvant Treatment for Familial Hypophosphatemic Rickets.
  
• Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in adults: clinical and radiological findings in diffuse and focal forms.
  
• Hypokalemic quadriparesis associated with renal tubular acidosis in a patient with SjA paragraph signgrenâs syndrome.
  
• Goodpasture's syndrome in a patient using cocaine--a case report and review of the literature.
  
• Selected exonic sequencing of the AGXT gene provides a genetic diagnosis in 50% of patients with primary hyperoxaluria type 1.
  
• Ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in hypertensives with renal failure: comparison between diabetic nephropathy and non-diabetic glomerulopathy.
  
• Partial nephrogenic diabetes insipidus caused by a novel mutation in the AVPR2 gene.
  
• Mutation-based diagnostic testing for primary hyperoxaluria type 1: Survey of results.
  
• Can we live without a functional renin-angiotensin system?
  
• HIV-1 and HIV-Associated Nephropathy 25 Years Later.
  
• Patient perceived barriers to treatment of depression and anxiety in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Spontaneous bladder rupture in a chronic hemodialysis patient.
  
• Two consecutive episodes of acute hepatitis C with different genotypes in a hemodialysis patient responsive to PEG-interferon monotherapy.
  
• The reversed ratio of 1-84 PTH (whole PTH)/intact PTH in a patient on hemodialysis associated with primary hyperparathyroidism.
  
• Chronic hypotension in hemodialysis patients: role of functional vascular changes and vasodilator agents.
  
• Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis complicated by emphysematous pyelonephritis in a hemodialysis patient.
  

Kidney International

• Progress in the prevention of chronic kidney disease in Latin America
  
• C-reactive protein is neither a marker nor a mediator of atherosclerosis
  
• Renal artery embolization for the symptomatic treatment of adult polycystic kidney disease
  
• The risk of acute macular degeneration is increased in patients with CKD
  
• Low glomerular filtration rate in the Indian population is apparently physiological
  
• Low or high birth weight is associated with CKD only in men
  
• Neurotoxicity and death after treatment with cefepime in patients with kidney failure
  
• Reduction of liver volume by sirolimus in patients with polycystic kidney disease
  
• Patients with nephrotic syndrome have a high absolute risk of thromboembolic events
  
• Simplifying nutritional screening in patients on hemodialysis
  
• Monitoring of carotid atherosclerosis for cardiovascular prognostication in ESRD
  
• Stents and stent grafts for vascular-access stenoses that have failed angioplasty
  
• Protocol biopsies lead to improved function of living-donor renal allografts
  
• Laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy: shorter operating time for right kidney
  
• UNOS criteria identify candidates for organ donation after cardiac death
  
• Successful induction of immune tolerance in kidney graft recipients
  
• Upper gastrointestinal complications increase the risk of renal graft failure
  
• A new supine anterolateral approach to percutaneous ultrasound-guided renal biopsy
  
• Even partial remission of proteinuria is associated with better renal outcome in patients with IgA nephropathy
  
• Reducing morbidity and mortality in incident hemodialysis patients with an early intervention program
  
• Risk factors for and management of sirolimus-associated pneumonitis in kidney transplant recipients
  
• Urinary tract infection in the renal transplant patient
  
• Primer: strategies for identifying genes involved in renal disease
  
• A case of fluoxetine-induced syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
  
• A case of polyomavirus-associated nephropathy presenting late after transplantation
  

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

• New aspects of the renin-angiotensin system: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 - a potential target for treatment of hypertension and diabetic nephropathy.
  
• Pathophysiological implications of transient receptor potential channels in vascular function.
  
• Nephrolithiasis as a systemic disorder.
  
• Relationship between chronic kidney disease prevalence and end-stage renal disease risk.
  
• Potential for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma agonists in progression: beyond metabolism.
  
• Kidney disease in the elderly: update on recent literature.
  
• Cardiac disease in children with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease.
  
• Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: epidemiology update.
  
• Nutrition, inflammation and chronic kidney disease.
  
• Estimating and measuring glomerular filtration rate in children.
  
• Hypertension and kidney disease: a deadly connection.
  
• Renalase deficiency in chronic kidney disease, and its contribution to hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
  
• Urotensin II: a cardiovascular and renal update.
  
• Diagnosis of fanconi anemia by diepoxybutane analysis.
  
• RAGE in diabetic nephropathy.
  
• The spectrum of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: new insights.
  
• Nephron number, glomerular volume, renal disease and hypertension.
  
• Salt intake, blood pressure and clinical outcomes.
  
• Cryoglobulinemia and renal disease.
  
• Red cell membrane transport abnormalities.
  

Seminars in Nephrology

• Clinicopathologic correlation in IgA nephropathy.
  
• Racial and genetic factors in IgA nephropathy.
  
• Secondary IgA nephropathy.
  
• Pediatric IgA nephropathy: clinical and therapeutic perspectives.
  
• Immune modulating therapy for IgA nephropathy: rationale and evidence.
  
• Pathogenesis and treatment of hepatorenal syndrome.
  
• Nephrolithiasis After Bariatric Surgery for Obesity.
  
• The acute and long-term adverse effects of shock wave lithotripsy.
  
• The glomerular response to IgA deposition in IgA nephropathy.
  
• Potential immunopathogenic role of the mucosa-bone marrow axis in IgA nephropathy: insights from animal models.
  
• The roles and mechanisms of intestinal oxalate transport in oxalate homeostasis.
  
• Metabolic syndrome and uric Acid nephrolithiasis.
  
• Bone disease and idiopathic hypercalciuria.
  
• Medical expulsive therapy.
  
• Evaluation of the kidney stone patient.
  
• New insights into the pathogenesis of idiopathic hypercalciuria.
  
• Cystinuria.
  
• The Primary Hyperoxalurias.
  
• Role of interstitial apatite plaque in the pathogenesis of the common calcium oxalate stone.
  
• Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy.
  
• Racial and ethnic disparities in end-stage kidney failure-survival paradoxes in African-Americans.
  
• International Scientific Committee of Radionuclides in Nephrourology (ISCORN) consensus on renal transit time measurements.
  
• IgA glycosylation and IgA immune complexes in the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy.
  
• The role of secretory IgA and complement in IgA nephropathy.
  

Nephron

• Novel PHEX mutation associated with hypophosphatemic rickets.
  
• Podocytes in HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• Glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, and renal pathology in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease.
  
• Alport syndrome and thin basement membrane nephropathy.
  
• Effect of Febuxostat on the Progression of Renal Disease in 5/6 Nephrectomy Rats with and without Hyperuricemia.
  
• Attenuation of glycerol-induced acute kidney injury by previous partial hepatectomy: role of hepatocyte growth factor/c-met axis in tubular protection.
  
• Recurrent lupus nephritis in the second allograft of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
  
• Clinical study of heparin-free hemodialysis with the inside of hollow fibers in dialyzer coated by human albumins.
  
• Colchicine-induced myopathy with normal creatine phosphokinase level in a renal transplant patient.
  
• A conceptual approach to the patient with metabolic acidosis. Application to a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis.
  
• Calcium homeostasis and imbalance.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hyponatremia.
  
• A case of SIADH induced by mizoribin administration.
  
• Distinct role of nitric oxide and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in renal microcirculation. Studies in the isolated perfused hydronephrotic kidney.
  
• Bartter's, Gitelman's, and Gordon's syndromes. From physiology to molecular biology and back, yet still some unanswered questions.
  
• Suppressive effects of rosmarinic acid on mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis in rats.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hyperkalemia.
  
• Pathogenesis and treatment of hypernatremia.
  
• No effect of transfusion transmitted virus viremia on the distribution and activation of peripheral lymphocytes in hemodialyzed patients.
  
• Cyclosporine or FK506 decrease mature epidermal growth factor protein expression and renal tubular regeneration in rat kidneys with ischemia/reperfusion injury.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hypokalemia.
  
• Spontaneous bilateral perirenal hematoma in a patient with tetrology of Fallot.
  
• Pathogenesis and diagnosis of hyponatremia.
  

Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

• Bigenic heterozygosity and the development of steroid-resistant focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  
• Longitudinal relationships between fluid status, inflammation, urine volume and plasma metabolites of icodextrin in patients randomized to glucose or icodextrin for the long exchange.
  
• A health economic analysis of screening and optimal treatment of nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in the USA.
  
• Serum osteoprotegerin level, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and cardiovascular survival in haemodialysis patients.
  
• Acute effects of low and high intravenous doses of furosemide on myocardial function in anuric haemodialysis patients: a tissue Doppler study.
  
• Impact of end-stage renal disease care in planned dialysis start and type of renal replacement therapy--a Spanish multicentre experience.
  
• A practice-related risk score (PRS): a DOPPS-derived aggregate quality index for haemodialysis facilities.
  
• Urinary excretion of fatty acid-binding proteins in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.
  
• Association between cytokine gene polymorphisms and outcomes in renal transplantation: a meta-analysis of individual patient data.
  
• Marked variation in the definition and diagnosis of delayed graft function: a systematic review.
  
• Inhibition of mineralocorticoid receptors with eplerenone alleviates short-term cyclosporin A nephrotoxicity in conscious rats.
  
• Five-year outcomes of severe acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy.
  
• Cardiac troponin T predicts occult coronary artery stenosis in patients with chronic kidney disease at the start of renal replacement therapy.
  
• Proteomic profiling and identification in peritoneal fluid of children treated by peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Use of a renal-specific oral supplement by haemodialysis patients with low protein intake does not increase the need for phosphate binders and may prevent a decline in nutritional status and quality of life.
  
• The effect of n-3 fatty acids on lipids and lipoproteins in patients treated with chronic haemodialysis: a randomized placebo-controlled intervention study.
  
• Possibly enhanced Gd excretion in dialysate, but no major clinical benefit of 3-5 months of treatment with sodium thiosulfate in late stages of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
  
• Application of normobaric hyperoxia therapy for amelioration of haemorrhagic shock-induced acute renal failure.
  
• The HLA-DRB1*1501 allele is prevalent among Japanese patients with anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody-mediated disease.
  
• Lack of elevation of urinary albumin excretion among patients with chronic syndromes of inappropriate antidiuresis.
  

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

• HIV-1 upregulates VEGF in podocytes.
  
• Early Epithelial Phenotypic Changes Predict Graft Fibrosis.
  
• Hemoglobin Is Expressed by Mesangial Cells and Reduces Oxidant Stress.
  
• X Inactivation, Female Mosaicism, and Sex Differences in Renal Diseases.
  
• Mechanism of Urinary Calcium Regulation by Urinary Magnesium and pH.
  
• Pitfalls of Measuring Total Blood Calcium in Patients with CKD.
  
• Increased Risk of CKD among Type 2 Diabetics with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
  
• The Effect of Altitude on Dosing and Response to Erythropoietin in ESRD.
  
• The Effect of Raloxifene Treatment in Postmenopausal Women with CKD.
  
• Racial Differences in Mortality Among Those with CKD.
  
• LRRC50, a Conserved Ciliary Protein Implicated in Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Src Inhibition Ameliorates Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Small-Molecule CFTR Inhibitors Slow Cyst Growth in Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Acute Kidney Injury Leads to Inflammation and Functional Changes in the Brain.
  
• Racial differences in end-stage renal disease rates in HIV infection versus diabetes.
  
• A Critical Role for Vascular Smooth Muscle in Acute Glucocorticoid-Induced Hypertension.
  
• 2007 Young Investigator Award: TRP'ing into a New Era for Glomerular Disease.
  
• High Perfusion Pressure Accelerates Renal Injury in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension.
  
• Endotoxin Mediates Recruitment of RNA Polymerase II to Target Genes in Acute Renal Failure.
  
• Downregulation of Hepatic Acetylation of Drugs in Chronic Renal Failure.
  
• Maternal Environment Interacts with Modifier Genes to Influence Progression of Nephrotic Syndrome.
  
• Circulating Alloreactive T Cells Correlate with Graft Function in Longstanding Renal Transplant Recipients.
  
• Generation and evolution of atubular glomeruli in the progression of renal disorders.
  
• Laminin compensation in collagen alpha3(IV) knockout (Alport) glomeruli contributes to permeability defects.
  
• Podocytes contribute to the formation of glomerular crescents.
  
• Autonomic Renal Denervation Ameliorates Experimental Glomerulonephritis.
  
• Association of a CYP4A11 Variant and Blood Pressure in Black Men.
  
• T-bet deficiency attenuates renal injury in experimental crescentic glomerulonephritis.
  
• RAGE Mediates Podocyte Injury in Adriamycin-induced Glomerulosclerosis.
  
• Healthy individuals have Goodpasture autoantigen-reactive T cells.
  
• Role of environmental toxins in endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. October 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.
  
• 2007 Homer W. Smith award: control of terminal differentiation in epithelia.
  
• Chromogranin A polymorphisms are associated with hypertensive renal disease.
  
• Fibrocystin/polyductin modulates renal tubular formation by regulating polycystin-2 expression and function.
  
• Sirolimus reduces polycystic liver volume in ADPKD patients.
  
• Impact of Activated Vitamin D and Race on Survival among Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Toward the Promise of Renal Replacement Therapy.
  
• Resolved: normal glomeruli filter nephrotic levels of albumin.
  
• Uric Acid and Incident Kidney Disease in the Community.
  
• Standard versus High-Dose CVVHDF for ICU-Related Acute Renal Failure.
  
• Long-term Efficacy and Safety of a Calcineurin Inhibitor-free Regimen in Live-Donor Renal Transplant Recipients.
  
• IL-6/IL-6R Axis Plays a Critical Role in Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Complement-Mediated Dysfunction of Glomerular Filtration Barrier Accelerates Progressive Renal Injury.
  
• Role of Remission Clinics in the Longitudinal Treatment of CKD.
  
• Molecular analysis of the SGLT2 gene in patients with renal glucosuria.
  
• Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade Is Renoprotective in Immune Complex-Mediated Glomerulonephritis.
  
• The Use of Magnetic Resonance to Evaluate Tissue Oxygenation in Renal Artery Stenosis.
  
• Lessons Learned About Adult Kidney Stem Cells From the Malpighian Tubules of Drosophila.
  
• Epigenetic Regulation of BMP7 in the Regenerative Response to Ischemia.
  
• Bicarbonate Therapy in Severe Metabolic Acidosis.
  

Journal of the American Medical Association

• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
  
• MEDICAL NEWS and PERSPECTIVES: New Limits Advised for Anemia Drugs
  
• FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Updated Recommendation From the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for Use of 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) in Children Aged 24-59 Months Who Are Not Completely Vaccina
  
• Cell-Free Hemoglobin-Based Blood Substitutes and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Death: A Meta-analysis.
  
• Comparison of an everolimus-eluting stent and a paclitaxel-eluting stent in patients with coronary artery disease: a randomized trial.
  
• Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of Part D prescription drug program benefits and responses to drug costs.
  
• Fluorouracil, mitomycin, and radiotherapy vs fluorouracil, cisplatin, and radiotherapy for carcinoma of the anal canal: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Cost-related medication nonadherence and spending on basic needs following implementation of Medicare Part D.
  
• CORRECTION: Incorrect Reporting of Funding in: New Screening Tool Reveals Genes Essential for Cancer Cells' Survival
  
• CORRECTION: Incorrect Numbers in Table in: Fluorouracil vs Gemcitabine Chemotherapy Before and After Fluorouracil-Based Chemoradiation Following Resection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
• Epigenetics at the epicenter of modern medicine.
  
• Effect of lower targets for blood pressure and LDL cholesterol on atherosclerosis in diabetes: the SANDS randomized trial.
  
• Reporting mortality findings in trials of rofecoxib for Alzheimer disease or cognitive impairment: a case study based on documents from rofecoxib litigation.
  
• Efficacy and safety of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (MC-1) in high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the MEND-CABG II randomized clinical trial.
  
• Managing an acute pain crisis in a patient with advanced cancer: "this is as much of a crisis as a code".
  
• Frequency of germline genomic homozygosity associated with cancer cases.
  
• Guest authorship and ghostwriting in publications related to rofecoxib: a case study of industry documents from rofecoxib litigation.
  
• Omega-3 free fatty acids for the maintenance of remission in Crohn disease: the EPIC Randomized Controlled Trials.
  
• Comparison of pioglitazone vs glimepiride on progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes: the PERISCOPE randomized controlled trial.
  
• F18-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography screening in Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
  
• Effect of rimonabant on progression of atherosclerosis in patients with abdominal obesity and coronary artery disease: the STRADIVARIUS randomized controlled trial.
  
• Palliative care for patients with head and neck cancer: "I would like a quick return to a normal lifestyle".
  
• Gene expression signatures, clinicopathological features, and individualized therapy in breast cancer.
  
• Comparison of angioplasty with infusion of tirofiban or abciximab and with implantation of sirolimus-eluting or uncoated stents for acute myocardial infarction: the MULTISTRATEGY randomized trial.
  
• Chemoembolization combined with radiofrequency ablation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma larger than 3 cm: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Chemoembolization Combined With Radiofrequency Ablation for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Larger Than 3 cm: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
• EDITORIAL: Expanding the Treatment Options for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Combining Transarterial Chemoembolization With Radiofrequency Ablation
  
• LETTERS: Genetically Guided Choices for Chemotherapy
  
• LETTERS: Genetically Guided Choices for Chemotherapy--Reply
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Large-Scale Analysis of Association Between LRP5 and LRP6 Variants and Osteoporosis
  
• FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Physical Activity Among Adults With a Disability--United States, 2005
  
• COMMENTARY: Genomic Profiles for Disease Risk: Predictive or Premature?
  
• REVIEW: Delivery of Genomic Medicine for Common Chronic Adult Diseases: A Systematic Review
  
• MEDICAL NEWS and PERSPECTIVES: Randy L. Jirtle, PhD: Epigenetics a Window on Gene Dysregulation, Disease
  
• FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children 5 Years After Conjugate Vaccine Introduction--Eight States, 1998-2005
  
• Delivery of genomic medicine for common chronic adult diseases: a systematic review.
  
• HEALTH AGENCIES UPDATE: Community-Acquired MRSA
  
• REVIEW: Venous Thromboembolism and Mortality Associated With Recombinant Erythropoietin and Darbepoetin Administration for the Treatment of Cancer-Associated Anemia
  
• CAPITOL HEALTH CALL: SCHIP, Medicare Compromise
  
• LETTERS: Determining Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease Using Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate
  
• LETTERS: Determining Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease Using Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate--Reply
  
• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Cardiovascular Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy
  
• MEDICAL NEWS and PERSPECTIVES: Report Assesses Effects of Early Nutrition Options on Atopic Diseases
  

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Social support and chronic kidney disease: an update.
  
• Begin with the end in mind: the value of outcome-driven nephrology social work.
  
• Health-related quality of life for children with chronic kidney disease.
  
• Palliative care in end-stage renal disease: illness trajectories, communication, and hospice use.
  
• Psychosocial and quality of life issues in women with end-stage renal disease.
  
• Characterizing the ideal clinical office system for nephrology.
  
• Quality of life after kidney transplantation: the bright side of life?
  
• Racial and ethnic differences in trends of end-stage renal disease: United States, 1995 to 2005.
  
• Potential impact of Medicare Part D in the end-stage renal disease population.
  
• Intrauterine growth restriction: fetal programming of hypertension and kidney disease.
  
• Disparities in renal endowment: causes and consequences.
  
• Computer templates in chronic kidney disease care: a tool for improving patient management.
  
• Reducing the burden of chronic kidney disease among American Indians.
  
• Iron indices and vitamin D receptor polymorphisms in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Chronic kidney disease risk reduction in a Hispanic population through pharmacist-based disease-state management.
  
• Self-efficacy and self-management behaviors in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• A comparison of aerobic exercise and resistance training in patients with and without chronic kidney disease.
  
• Maintaining quality of life at the end of life in the end-stage renal disease population.
  
• State approaches to stem toll of chronic kidney disease.
  
• Geriatric hemodialysis rehabilitation care.
  
• Community-partnered approaches to enhance chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and early intervention.
  
• Ethical issues in the care of vulnerable chronic kidney disease patients: the elderly, cognitively impaired, and those from different cultural backgrounds.
  
• Cognitive impairment in the aging dialysis and chronic kidney disease populations: an occult burden.
  
• The internet as a tool for the renal community.
  
• Automation, decision support, and expert systems in nephrology.
  
• The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: a practical approach to implementing quality reporting.
  

New England Journal of Medicine

• EARLY RELEASE: Contaminated Heparin Associated with Adverse Clinical Events and Activation of the Contact System
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Preliminary Results of Gene Therapy for Retinal Degeneration
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Brief Report: Effect of Gene Therapy on Visual Function in Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Brief Report: Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Bona Fide Genetic Associations with Bone Mineral Density
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Multiple Genetic Loci for Bone Mineral Density and Fractures
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Neuroblastoma -- Linking a Common Allele to a Rare Disease
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Chromosome 6p22 Locus Associated with Clinically Aggressive Neuroblastoma
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Planning for the Future -- Long-Term Care and the 2008 Election
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Etiquette-Based Medicine
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Metformin versus Insulin for the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Associated with Early Repolarization
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Brief Report: Left Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation for Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Brief Report: An Immunodeficiency Disease with RAG Mutations and Granulomas
  
• REVIEW ARTICLE: Molecular Origins of Cancer: Tumor Angiogenesis
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Giant Left Atrium
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Fluorescence Diagnosis of Subclinical Actinic Keratoses
  
• CASE RECORDS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: Case 14-2008 -- A 78-Year-Old Man with Anergia and Anhedonia Associated with Cardiovascular Surgery
  
• EDITORIAL: Gestational Diabetes -- Setting Limits, Exploring Treatments
  
• EDITORIAL: Early Repolarization Revisited
  
• CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BASIC RESEARCH: A New Weapon for Attacking Tumor Blood Vessels
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Corticosteroids for Septic Shock
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Insulin and Pentastarch for Severe Sepsis
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Chimerism and Tolerance in a Recipient of a Deceased-Donor Liver Transplant
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: More on Subgroup Analyses in Clinical Trials
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Dual Inheritance of Sudden Death from Cardiovascular Causes
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Augmentation of J Waves and Electrical Storms in Patients with Early Repolarization
  
• BOOK REVIEW: The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy?; Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
  
• BOOK REVIEW: The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders