Recent Journal Articles

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

• Use and Safety of Unfractionated Heparin for Anticoagulation During Maintenance Hemodialysis.
  
• Financial Implications of Choice of Dialysis Type of the Revised Medicare Payment System: An Economic Analysis.
  
• Tinzaparin Versus Dalteparin for Periprocedure Prophylaxis of Thromboembolic Events in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Trial.
  
• Comparison of Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Perfusion Defects During Stress Induced by Hemodialysis Versus Adenosine.
  
• The Kidney Disease Quality of Life Cognitive Function Subscale and Cognitive Performance in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Clinicopathologic Correlations in Multiple Myeloma: A Case Series of 190 Patients With Kidney Biopsies.
  
• Characteristics of Renal Cystic and Solid Lesions Based on Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography of Potential Kidney Donors.
  
• Phosphate Binder Use and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS): Evaluation of Possible Confounding by Nutritional Status.
  
• Hemodynamic Monitoring in the Critically Ill: Spanning the Range of Kidney Function.
  
• Management of Chronic Pain in a Patient With Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Sequential Celiac Plexus Blockade, Radiofrequency Ablation, and Spinal Cord Stimulation.
  
• Survival in Patients Treated by Long-term Dialysis Compared With the General Population.
  
• Center-Level Factors and Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Access to Health Care Among Adults Evaluated for CKD: Findings From the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP).
  
• Physician Utilization, Risk-Factor Control, and CKD Progression Among Participants in the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP).
  
• Prevalence of Arteriovenous Fistulas in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: Correlation With Patient Factors That May Be Associated With Maturation Failure.
  
• Association of Physician Care With Mortality in Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) Participants.
  
• The Motivations and Experiences of Living Kidney Donors: A Thematic Synthesis.
  
• Decreased Kidney Function Among Agricultural Workers in El Salvador.
  
• Dosing of Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Incidence and Consequences of Acute Kidney Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  
• Utilization and Costs of Cardiovascular Disease Medications in Dialysis Patients in Medicare Part D.
  
• Predictive Models for Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Surgery.
  
• Long-term Risk of CKD in Children Surviving Episodes of Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Study.
  
• Renal Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Kidney Injury With Granulomatous Interstitial Nephritis and Vasculitis.
  
• Effect of Vitamin K(2) Supplementation on Functional Vitamin K Deficiency in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Trial.
  
• Recurrent Acute Kidney Injury Following Bath Salts Intoxication.
  
• Use of Real-Time Ultrasound Guidance for the Placement of Hemodialysis Catheters: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
  
• Dialysis Patients and Critical Illness.
  
• Urgent-Start Peritoneal Dialysis: A Quality Improvement Report.
  
• Oral Calcitriol for Reduction of Proteinuria in Patients With IgA Nephropathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  
• Association of Pulse Pressure, Arterial Elasticity, and Endothelial Function With Kidney Function Decline Among Adults With Estimated GFR >60 mL/min/1.73 m(2): The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
  
• Periodontal Disease and Decreased Kidney Function in Japanese Elderly.
  
• Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in UMOD-Related Kidney Disease: A Human Pathologic Study.
  
• Polycystic Kidney Disease Presenting With Hypertension and Hypokalemia.
  
• Impact of Kidney Cancer Surgery on Oncologic and Kidney Functional Outcomes.
  
• Employment of Patients Receiving Maintenance Dialysis and After Kidney Transplant: A Cross-sectional Study From Finland.
  
• Predialysis Serum Sodium Level, Dialysate Sodium, and Mortality in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).
  
• Use of Clinical Decision Support Systems for Kidney-Related Drug Prescribing: A Systematic Review.
  
• Appraising Stroke Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Large Single-Center Cohort Study.
  
• Lymphoproliferative Disorders After Adult Kidney Transplant: Epidemiology and Comparison of Registry Report With Claims-Based Diagnoses.
  
• The Risk of Infection-Related Hospitalization With Decreased Kidney Function.
  
• Effect of Lowering Dialysate Sodium Concentration on Interdialytic Weight Gain and Blood Pressure in Patients Undergoing Thrice-Weekly In-center Nocturnal Hemodialysis: A Quality Improvement Study.
  
• Nephrologists' Perspectives on Waitlisting and Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys for Transplant.
  
• Kidney Tubular Toxicity of Maintenance Pemetrexed Therapy.
  
• Repeated Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis: A Multicenter Registry Study.
  
• Wasting and Sudden Cardiac Death in Hemodialysis Patients: A Post Hoc Analysis of 4D (Die Deutsche Diabetes Dialyse Studie).
  
• Association of Kidney Function, Vitamin D Deficiency, and Circulating Markers of Mineral and Bone Disorders in CKD.
  
• Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States-Looking Back, Looking Forward.
  
• International Differences in Hemodialysis Delivery and Their Influence on Outcomes.
  
• Ambient Air Pollutants and Risk of Fatal Coronary Heart Disease Among Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Serum soluble α-Klotho in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Echocardiographic changes following hemodialysis initiation in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and symptomatic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
  
• Oral health in patients on haemodialysis for diabetic nephropathy and chronic glomerulonephritis.
  
• The ICNARC model is predictive of hospital mortality in critically ill patients supported by acute dialysis.
  
• Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and peri-hemodialysis blood pressures in a southeast US hemodialysis unit.
  
• Alteplase for blood flow restoration in hemodialysis catheters: a multicenter, randomized, prospective study comparing "dwell" versus "push" administration.
  
• Impact of atherosclerosis on the relationship of glycemic control and mortality in diabetic patients on hemodialysis.
  
• Do serum hepcidin-25 levels correlate with oxidative stress in patients with chronic kidney disease not receiving dialysis?
  
• Successful treatment of life threatening theophylline intoxication in a pregnant patient by hemodialysis.
  
• Transcatheter renal artery embolization improves lung function in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease on hemodialysis.
  
• Effect of Uremia and Hemodialysis on Proteome Profile of Blood Platelets and Plasma.
  
• Osteoprotegerin/RANKL Axis and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification in Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Cholesterol Synthesis, Cholesterol Absorption, and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Effects of Six versus Three Times per Week Hemodialysis on Physical Performance, Health, and Functioning: Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) Randomized Trials.
  
• Use of Conjugated Estrogens in Life-Threatening Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Hemodialysis Patients--A Review.
  
• Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as an early biomarker of acute kidney injury in liver transplantation.
  
• Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Kidney Disease: A Meta-Analysis.
  
• Urinary corticosteroid excretion predicts left ventricular mass and proteinuria in chronic kidney disease.
  
• Effects of adipose-derived mesenchymal cells on ischemia-reperfusion injury in kidney.
  
• Effect of Uremia and Hemodialysis on Platelet Apoptosis.
  
• Pulmonary vascular calcification in a nocturnal hemodialysis patient.
  
• Disseminated kidney tuberculosis complicating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a case report.
  
• Fluoroscopic Manipulation of Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters: Outcomes and Factors Associated with Successful Manipulation.
  
• Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant versus Other Kidney Transplant Options in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
  
• MicroRNAs in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis (MINOS Study).
  
• Likelihood of Starting Dialysis after Incident Fistula Creation.
  
• Is Assisted Peritoneal Dialysis Associated with Technique Survival When Competing Events Are Considered?
  
• Use of Secondary Prevention Medications among Adults with Reduced Kidney Function.
  
• Impact of a Patient Education Program on Disparities in Kidney Transplant Evaluation.
  
• Local delivery of a direct renin inhibitor into the kidney ameliorates progression of experimental glomerulonephritis.
  
• Established and Emerging Markers of Kidney Function.
  
• Relationship between kidney damage and stroke types in Japanese patients.
  
• Long-Term Kidney Allograft Function and Survival in Prednisone-Free Regimens: Tacrolimus/Mycophenolate Mofetil versus Tacrolimus/Sirolimus.
  
• Ten-Year Outcome after Rapid Discontinuation of Prednisone in Adult Primary Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Predictors of Estimated GFR Decline in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Preserved Kidney Function.
  
• Are surrogate assumptions and use of diuretics associated with diagnosis and staging of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery?
  
• ARFI-based tissue elasticity quantification and kidney graft dysfunction: First clinical experiences.
  
• Congenital hepatic fibrosis in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Soluble Klotho and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Tenecteplase for the improvement of blood flow rate in dysfunctional hemodialysis catheters.
  
• Clinicopathological impacts of activated transcription factor c-Jun in peritubular capillary endothelial cells in chronic antibodymediated rejection after kidney transplantation.
  
• Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of subcutaneous biosimilar epoetin-? (HX575) in non-dialysis patients with renal anemia: a multi-center, randomized, double-blind study.
  
• Incidental kidney stones: a single center experience with kidney donor selection.
  
• Cost-effectiveness of chronic kidney disease mass screening test in Japan.
  
• Renal Phosphate Loss in Long-Term Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Aliskiren-associated acute kidney injury in a patient with pre-existing chronic kidney disease and dilated cardiomyopathy.
  
• A case of familial lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency on hemodialysis for over 20 years.
  
• A treatment dilemma in adult immunoglobulin A nephropathy: what is the appropriate target, preservation of kidney function or induction of clinical remission?
  
• Adding Specialized Clinics for Remote-Dwellers with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Cost-Utility Analysis.
  
• The Influence of Induction Therapy for Kidney Transplantation after a Non-Renal Transplant.
  

Kidney International

• Chronic kidney disease: Study warns of burgeoning health burden of CKD in China
  
• Polycystic kidney disease: New strategy for characterizing large ADPKD cohorts
  
• Glomerular disease: Eculizumab may be useful for dense deposit disease and C3 glomerulonephritis
  
• Transplantation: Conversion to everolimus might improve renal function
  
• Chronic kidney disease: Kidney function can improve in some cases of CKD
  
• Dialysis: Biocompatible fluid for PD—hanging in the balANZ?
  
• Transplantation: Kidney donation does not increase cardiovascular risk
  
• Hypertension: Between-arm blood pressure differences and mortality risk
  
• Transplantation: Autologous MSCs in living-related renal transplantation
  
• Diabetic nephropathy: Dietary sodium restriction can improve ARB effectiveness
  
• Transplantation: Thrombotic risk of EPO in kidney transplant recipients
  
• Basic research: New target in kidney fibrosis identified by systems approach
  
• Hemodialysis: Mineral metabolism outcomes with frequent hemodialysis
  
• Pathology: Diagnostic challenges in chronic antibody-mediated rejection
  
• Hypertension: RAS blockade, hyperkalemia and AKI—look and you will find
  
• Dialysis: Obesity and mortality on dialysis—does age matter?
  
• Acute kidney injury: Prevention of contrast-induced AKI—the ongoing saga
  
• Chronic kidney disease: Mortality and serum sodium in CKD—yet another U-shaped curve
  
• The long-term renal and cardiovascular consequences of prematurity
  
• Pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy
  
• Timing of dialysis initiation in transplant-naive and failed transplant patients
  
• Glomerular hyperfiltration: definitions, mechanisms and clinical implications
  
• Proteinuria should be used as a surrogate in CKD
  
• Proteinuria as a surrogate end point—more data are needed
  

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

• Lithium and kidney, 60 years later.
  
• Prevalence and risk factors for chronic kidney disease in patients with coronary artery disease.
  
• Acute Coronary Syndromes in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• APOL1 and kidney disease.
  
• The Effect of Weight Loss in Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Novel genetic aspects of congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract.
  
• Role of Carbon Monoxide in Kidney Function: Is a little Carbon Monoxide Good for the Kidney?
  
• The insulin-like growth factor system in kidney disease and hypertension.
  
• PPAR? agonists in polycystic kidney disease with frequent development of cardiovascular disorders.
  
• Effect of kidney failure and hemodialysis on protein and amino acid metabolism.
  
• Adenosine and protection from acute kidney injury.
  
• The complex interplay between cyclooxygenase-2 and angiotensin II in regulating kidney function.
  
• Nitric oxide synthase derangements and hypertension in kidney disease.
  
• Acute kidney injury: how can we facilitate recovery?
  
• Our evolving understanding of late kidney allograft failure.
  
• Targeting JAK3 in kidney transplantation: current status and future options.
  
• What is the Ideal Blood Pressure Goal for Patients with Stage III or Higher Chronic Kidney Disease?
  
• Calcineurin inhibitors in kidney transplantation: friend or foe?
  
• Systolic Blood Pressure and Mortality in Patients on Hemodialysis.
  
• Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy in the chronic kidney disease patient.
  

Seminars in Nephrology

• Dilator-Assisted Banding for Managing Complications Associated with Excessive Hemodialysis Access Flow.
  
• Diuretics in acute kidney injury.
  
• Transvenous Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices and Hemodialysis Catheters: Recommendations to Curtail a Potentially Lethal Combination.
  
• The Renaissance Kidney-Nephrology in and about the Sixteenth Century.
  
• Uric Acid as a mediator of diabetic nephropathy.
  
• Contrast-induced acute kidney injury: short- and long-term implications.
  
• Imaging approaches to patients with polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Urea and uremic solutes: how does peritoneal dialysis work?
  
• Consequences of chronic inflammation in peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Offering peritoneal dialysis to the older patient: medical progress or waste of time?
  
• Prevention of peritoneal dialysis-related infections.
  
• Peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion strategies and maintenance of catheter function.
  
• An update on the comparisons of mortality outcomes of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.
  
• Peritoneal dialysis in infants and young children.
  
• Targeting the Renin Angiotensin system in dialysis patients.
  
• Vascular incompetence in dialysis patients-protein-bound uremic toxins and endothelial dysfunction.
  
• Advances in pediatric renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury.
  
• Peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury: lessons learned and applied.
  
• Withholding and withdrawing renal support in acute kidney injury.
  
• Vancomycin dosing in patients on intermittent hemodialysis.
  
• High-Flux Dialyzers, Backfiltration, and Dialysis Fluid Quality.
  
• What We Know About Oxidative Stress in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease on Dialysis-Clinical Effects, Potential Treatment, and Prevention.
  
• MYH9 genetic variants associated with glomerular disease: what is the role for genetic testing?
  
• Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.
  
• Antenatal detection of pelviureteric junction stenosis: main controversies.
  
• Renal Function Recovery in Chronic Dialysis Patients.
  
• Electrolyte Management in Frequent Home Hemodialysis.
  
• Chronic Kidney Disease After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
  
• Electrolyte Disturbances and Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With Cancer.
  
• Acute Kidney Injury in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
  
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease in Cancer Patients: Lessons From the IRMA Study Group.
  
• Hereditary Interstitial Kidney Disease.
  
• Diagnosis of Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Integrated Approach.
  
• Congenital Anomalies of Kidney and Urinary Tract.
  
• Brachial artery aneurysms associated with arteriovenous access for hemodialysis.
  
• Macrophages, dendritic cells, and kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury.
  
• Macrophages and kidney transplantation.
  
• Macrophages and immunologic inflammation of the kidney.
  
• Chronic kidney disease epidemic: cost and health care implications in china.
  
• The UK Model for System Redesign and Chronic Kidney Disease Services.
  
• 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.
  
• Kidney disease outcomes quality initiative guidelines for bone and mineral metabolism: emerging questions.
  

Nephron

• Infected Hepatic and Renal Cysts: Differential Impact on Outcome in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Fibrinogen That Appears in Bowman's Space of Proteinuric Kidneys in vivo Activates Podocyte Toll-Like Receptors 2 and 4 in vitro.
  
• UK Renal Registry 12th Annual Report (December 2009): Chapter 11: Blood pressure profile of prevalent patients receiving dialysis in the UK in 2008: national and centre-specific analyses.
  
• Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Multicenter Experience.
  
• Prevalence of Acute Kidney Injury following Cardiac Surgery and Related Risk Factors in Chinese Patients.
  
• Serum Osteoprotegerin Is a Predictor of Progression of Atherosclerosis and Coronary Calcification in Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Early Cyst Growth Is Associated with the Increased Nuclear Expression of Cyclin D1/Rb Protein in an Autosomal-Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease Rat Model.
  
• Practical genetics for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Local Expression of C-Reactive Protein Is Associated with Deteriorating Graft Function in Acute and Chronic Failure of Kidney Transplants.
  
• Genetics of chronic kidney disease.
  
• Disorders of the renal proximal tubule.
  
• An update and practical guide to renal stone management.
  
• Expression of SM22? (Transgelin) in Glomerular and Interstitial Renal Injury.
  
• Involvement of Connective Tissue Growth Factor in Human and Experimental Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis.
  
• Hypertension: detection and management in South Africa.
  
• Therapeutic remedies based on Aristolochia clematitis in the main foci of balkan endemic nephropathy in Romania.
  
• Rituximab in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Fad or Fact?
  
• Proximal Tubule Dysfunction Is Dissociated from Endothelial Dysfunction in Normoalbuminuric Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Study.
  
• Right Ventricular Diastolic Function in Dialysis Patients Could Be Affected by Vascular Access.
  
• An Appraisal of Kidney Dysfunction and Its Risk Factors in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
  
• Proteinuria Thresholds Are Irrational: A Call for Proteinuria Indexing.
  
• Glomerular Podocytes Express Type 1 Adenylate Cyclase: Inactivation Results in Susceptibility to Proteinuria.
  
• Amelogenesis Imperfecta and Nephrocalcinosis Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
  
• A Predictive Clinical Grading System for Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy by Combining Proteinuria and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate.
  
• Clinical Characteristics of Kidney Disease in Japanese HIV-Infected Patients.
  
• Monoclonal Antibody to CD31 (PECAM-1) Inhibits Tubular Regeneration after Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in the Rat.
  
• Do Bicarbonate-Based Solutions for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Offer Better Control of Metabolic Acidosis than Lactate-Containing Fluids.
  
• Extracellular YB-1 Blockade in Experimental Nephritis Upregulates Notch-3 Receptor Expression and Signaling.
  
• Can ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Be Detrimental in CKD Patients?
  
• Cyclosporine or FK506 decrease mature epidermal growth factor protein expression and renal tubular regeneration in rat kidneys with ischemia/reperfusion injury.
  
• Clinical study of heparin-free hemodialysis with the inside of hollow fibers in dialyzer coated by human albumins.
  
• Distinct role of nitric oxide and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in renal microcirculation. Studies in the isolated perfused hydronephrotic kidney.
  
• Relapse or Worsening of Nephrotic Syndrome in Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy Can Occur even though the Glomerular Immune Deposits Have Been Eradicated.
  
• Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Gene Polymorphism and N-Acetyl-?-D-Glucosaminidase Excretion in Endemic Nephropathy.
  
• Should eGFR and Albuminuria Be Added to the Framingham Risk Score? Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction.
  
• The Kidney, a Victim and Culprit of Autoimmune and Alloimmune Responses.
  
• Classification of chronic kidney disease in the elderly: pitfalls and errors.
  
• Chapter 3: Demographic and Biochemistry Profile of Kidney Transplant Recipients in the UK in 2009: National and Centre-Specific Analyses.
  
• Risk Profile in Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3: Older versus Younger Patients.
  
• Identification and Characterization of Sall1-Expressing Cells Present in the Adult Mouse Kidney.
  
• Mechanism-Based Therapeutics for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: Recent Progress and Future Prospects.
  
• Survival after Starting Renal Replacement Treatment in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Single-Centre 40-Year Study.
  
• Association of Deprivation with Worse Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings from a Hospital-Based Cohort in the United Kingdom.
  

Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

• Multidirectional myocardial systolic function in hemodialysis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and different left ventricular geometry.
  
• Improved equation for estimating single-pool Kt/V at higher dialysis frequencies.
  
• Use of online blood volume and blood temperature monitoring during haemodialysis in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a single-centre randomized controlled trial.
  
• Slope analysis of blood volume and calf bioimpedance monitoring in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Trisodium citrate induced protein precipitation in haemodialysis catheters might cause pulmonary embolism.
  
• Renal sympathetic nerve ablation for the treatment of difficult-to-control or refractory hypertension in a haemodialysis patient.
  
• Body mass index has no effect on rate of progression of chronic kidney disease in non-diabetic subjects.
  
• Increased urinary excretion of angiotensinogen is associated with risk of chronic kidney disease.
  
• The balance of beneficial and deleterious effects of hypoxia-inducible factor activation by prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor in rat remnant kidney depends on the timing of administration.
  
• Paricalcitol versus cinacalcet plus low-dose vitamin D therapy for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients receiving haemodialysis: results of the IMPACT SHPT study.
  
• Significance of hypo- and hypernatremia in chronic kidney disease.
  
• Development and validation of the Consumer Quality index instrument to measure the experience and priority of chronic dialysis patients.
  
• Disease severity score could not predict the outcomes in peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis.
  
• Optimizing the dialysate calcium concentration in bicarbonate haemodialysis.
  
• APOL1 allelic variants are associated with lower age of dialysis initiation and thereby increased dialysis vintage in African and Hispanic Americans with non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease.
  
• Vasopressin release is enhanced by the Hemocontrol biofeedback system and could contribute to better haemodynamic stability during haemodialysis.
  
• Association of apolipoprotein A1 and B with kidney function and chronic kidney disease in two multiethnic population samples.
  
• Outcome of the living kidney donor.
  
• Sodium butyrate decreases the activation of NF-?B reducing inflammation and oxidative damage in the kidney of rats subjected to contrast-induced nephropathy.
  
• Safety and efficacy of local periadventitial delivery of sirolimus for improving hemodialysis graft patency: first human experience with a sirolimus-eluting collagen membrane (Coll-R).
  

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

• New Observational Data Demonstrate that Mortality Is Lower in Patients Receiving More Frequent Dialysis.
  
• Angiotensin II- and Salt-Induced Kidney Injury through Rac1-Mediated Mineralocorticoid Receptor Activation.
  
• Plasma and Urinary Heme Oxygenase-1 in Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Effects of Biocompatible versus Standard Fluid on Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes.
  
• Vasculature and Kidney Complications in Sickle Cell Disease.
  
• Intensive Hemodialysis: Back to the Beginning?
  
• Improvement in Kidney Function: A Real Occurrence.
  
• Kidney Function Can Improve in Patients with Hypertensive CKD.
  
• Identification of Gene Mutations in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease through Targeted Resequencing.
  
• Cardiovascular Disease in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Intensive Hemodialysis Associates with Improved Survival Compared with Conventional Hemodialysis.
  
• Effects of Frequent Hemodialysis on Measures of CKD Mineral and Bone Disorder.
  
• Molecular Mechanisms of Acid-Base Sensing by the Kidney.
  
• Survival in Daily Home Hemodialysis and Matched Thrice-Weekly In-Center Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Survival with Three-Times Weekly In-Center Nocturnal Versus Conventional Hemodialysis.
  
• Orphan Nuclear Receptor Nur77 Promotes Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Epithelial Apoptosis.
  
• Molecular Phenotypes of Acute Kidney Injury in Kidney Transplants.
  
• Dose-Dependent Effects of Sirolimus on mTOR Signaling and Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Disruption of IFT Complex A Causes Cystic Kidneys without Mitotic Spindle Misorientation.
  
• ErbB4 Modulates Tubular Cell Polarity and Lumen Diameter during Kidney Development.
  
• Association between circulating specific leukocyte types and incident chronic kidney disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.
  
• A Clinicopathologic Study of Thrombotic Microangiopathy in IgA Nephropathy.
  
• Mutations in Multiple PKD Genes May Explain Early and Severe Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• Sulodexide Fails to Demonstrate Renoprotection in Overt Type 2 Diabetic Nephropathy.
  
• Toll-Like Receptor 4 Promotes Tubular Inflammation in Diabetic Nephropathy.
  
• The Aging Kidney Phenotype and Systemically Derived Stem Cells.
  
• The Pathophysiology of IgA Nephropathy.
  
• Hypoxia-Inducible Transcription Factors Stabilization in the Thick Ascending Limb Protects against Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• HCaRG Accelerates Tubular Repair after Ischemic Kidney Injury.
  
• Macrophages Promote Cyst Growth in Polycystic Kidney Disease.
  
• AMPK Mediates the Initiation of Kidney Disease Induced by a High-Fat Diet.
  
• Is There Something Better than the Best Marker of Kidney Function?
  
• Valproic Acid Attenuates Proteinuria and Kidney Injury.
  
• Minocycline-EDTA Lock Solution Prevents Catheter-Related Bacteremia in Hemodialysis.
  
• Screening for Proteinuria: A Tool for Predicting Rapid Declines in Kidney Function?
  
• Succinate receptors in the kidney.
  
• Selection Bias Explains Apparent Differential Mortality between Dialysis Modalities.
  
• Rituximab-Induced Depletion of Anti-PLA2R Autoantibodies Predicts Response in Membranous Nephropathy.
  
• Kidney Dendritic Cells Induce Innate Immunity against Bacterial Pyelonephritis.
  
• Podocyte COX-2 Exacerbates Diabetic Nephropathy by Increasing Podocyte (Pro)renin Receptor Expression.
  
• Multiphoton Imaging of the Functioning Kidney.
  
• Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycans in Kidney Disease.
  
• IL-25 Induces M2 Macrophages and Reduces Renal Injury in Proteinuric Kidney Disease.
  
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Kidney Function Decline among Persons without Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Kidney.
  
• Accelerated Maturation and Abnormal Morphology in the Preterm Neonatal Kidney.
  
• Trends in the Timing of Pre-emptive Kidney Transplantation.
  
• Pores for Thought: New Strategies to Re-energize Stressed Mitochondria in Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• Sepsis and Acute Kidney Injury.
  
• The Pro-Apoptotic Protein Bim Is a MicroRNA Target in Kidney Progenitors.
  

Journal of the American Medical Association

• The Sad Truth About Early Initiation of Dialysis in Elderly Patients [Viewpoint]
  
• Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation on Graft Patency and Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With New Synthetic Arteriovenous Hemodialysis Grafts: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  
• Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation on Graft Patency and Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With New Synthetic Arteriovenous Hemodialysis Grafts: A Randomized Controlled Trial [Original Contribution]
  
• Fish Oil and Hemodialysis Graft Patency: Does Time Matter? [Editorial]
  
• Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, and Transplantation: A Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney [Book and Media Reviews]
  
• Induction therapy with autologous mesenchymal stem cells in living-related kidney transplants: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Induction Therapy With Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Living-Related Kidney Transplants: A Randomized Controlled Trial [Original Contribution]
  
• Vitamin D Therapy and Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: The PRIMO Randomized Controlled Trial [Original Contribution]
  
• Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease: More Questions Than Answers [Editorial]
  
• Race, Age, and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Dialysis [Letters]
  
• Race, Age, and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Dialysis--Reply [Letters]
  
• Use of Electron-Beam Sterilized Hemodialysis Membranes and Risk of Thrombocytopenia [Original Contribution]
  
• Optimizing Patient Safety During Hemodialysis [Editorial]
  
• Biomarkers for Detecting and Risk-Stratifying Chronic Kidney Disease [Letters]
  
• Biomarkers for Detecting and Risk-Stratifying Chronic Kidney Disease--Reply [Letters]
  
• Association of Race and Age With Survival Among Patients Undergoing Dialysis [Original Contribution]
  
• Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease and Mineral Metabolism [Letters]
  
• Kidney Cancer [JAMA Patient Page]
  
• Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease and Mineral Metabolism--Reply [Letters]
  
• Rare E coli Strain Races Through Europe; High Rate of Kidney Failure Reported [Medical News and Perspectives]
  
• Temporal trends in the prevalence of diabetic kidney disease in the United States.
  
• Temporal Trends in the Prevalence of Diabetic Kidney Disease in the United States [Original Contribution]
  
• Fibroblast growth factor 23 and risks of mortality and end-stage renal disease in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Risks of Mortality and End-Stage Renal Disease in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease [Original Contribution]
  
• Supplementing Creatinine-Based Estimates of Risk in Chronic Kidney Disease: Is It Time? [Editorial]
  
• Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease With Creatinine, Cystatin C, and Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio and Association With Progression to End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality [Original Contribution]
  
• A Predictive Model for Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure [Original Contribution]
  
• A Predictive Model for Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure.
  
• Supplementing Creatinine-Based Estimates of Risk in Chronic Kidney Disease: Is It Time? [Editorial]
  
• A Predictive Model for Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure [Original Contribution]
  
• Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease With Creatinine, Cystatin C, and Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio and Association With Progression to End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality [Original Contribution]
  
• Standard- vs high-dose clopidogrel based on platelet function testing after percutaneous coronary intervention: the GRAVITAS randomized trial.
  
• Geographic variation in diagnosis frequency and risk of death among Medicare beneficiaries.
  
• The 5-Minute Urology Consult [Book and Media Reviews]
  
• Mineral Metabolism Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease [Editorial]
  
• Saving Newborn Lives [The World in Medicine]
  
• Leukemic Stem Cell Gene Expression Signature and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia [Letters]
  
• Influenza Vaccine Makers Seek Ways to Speed Production, Boost Effectiveness [Medical News and Perspectives]
  
• Serum Levels of Phosphorus, Parathyroid Hormone, and Calcium and Risks of Death and Cardiovascular Disease in Individuals With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [Review]
  
• Reexamining Metrics for Glucose Control [Commentary]
  
• Progression From Precursor Disease to Multiple Myeloma--Reply [Letters]
  
• Air Pollution in China [The World in Medicine]
  
• Geographic Variation in Diagnosis Frequency and Risk of Death Among Medicare Beneficiaries [Original Contribution]
  
• Vital Signs: Prevalence, Treatment, and Control of High Levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol--United States, 1999-2002 and 2005-2008 [From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
  
• Performance of Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Tests Among Users of Low-Dose Aspirin [Letters]
  
• New "Law" Attempts to Explain Strategies Drug Marketers Use to Sway Prescribing [Medical News and Perspectives]
  
• Principles and Practice of Dialysis [Book and Media Reviews]
  
• Two Errors in: Use of Florbetapir-PET for Imaging {beta}-Amyloid Pathology [Correction]
  
• Reflecting Emotion With the Science in Research Article Prose [Letters]
  
• Procedure [Poetry and Medicine]
  

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Restorative physical and occupational therapy: a critical need for patients with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease.
  
• Kidney transplantation: a systematic review of interventional and observational studies of physical activity on intermediate outcomes.
  
• Exercise training and reduction of cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• The treatment of HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• CKD in HIV-infected patients other than HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• The pathogenesis of HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in HIV-associated nephropathy: A focus on the MYH9 nephropathy susceptibility gene.
  
• Diagnosis and natural history of HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• Systemic Anticoagulation Considerations in Chronic Kidney Disease.
  
• Novel Strategies for Immune Monitoring in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  
• Urinary Proteomics Based on Capillary Electrophoresis-Coupled Mass Spectrometry in Kidney Disease: Discovery and Validation of Biomarkers, and Clinical Application.
  
• The use of targeted biomarkers for chronic kidney disease.
  
• Proteomics database in chronic kidney disease.
  
• Hypertension following kidney transplantation.
  
• The regulation of renal phosphate transport.
  
• Phosphate transporters in renal, gastrointestinal, and other tissues.
  
• Dynamic imaging of the sodium phosphate cotransporters.
  
• High Cut-off Dialysis Membranes: Current Uses and Future Potential.
  
• The spectrum of polycystic kidney disease in children.
  
• Vesicoureteral reflux and reflux nephropathy.
  
• Peritoneal dialysis versus hemodialysis: risks, benefits, and access issues.
  
• The "no dialysis" option.
  
• Avoiding harm and achieving optimal dialysis outcomes-the dialysate component.
  
• Avoiding harm in peritoneal dialysis patients.
  

New England Journal of Medicine

• Effect of Estrogen on Pseudomonas Mucoidy and Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis
  
• Prednisone, Azathioprine, and N-Acetylcysteine for Pulmonary Fibrosis
  
• Lost in Translation — ¿Cómo se dice, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”?
  
• Emergency Departments, Medicaid Costs, and Access to Primary Care — Understanding the Link
  
• Regulatory Review of Novel Therapeutics — Comparison of Three Regulatory Agencies
  
• Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis — Where Do We Go from Here?
  
• Continuing Bisphosphonate Treatment for Osteoporosis — For Whom and for How Long?
  
• A Randomized Trial of Urodynamic Testing before Stress-Incontinence Surgery
  
• Combination Chemotherapy in Advanced Adrenocortical Carcinoma
  
• From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance
  
• Beyond the “R Word”? Medicine's New Frugality
  
• TODAY — A Stark Glimpse of Tomorrow
  
• A Clinical Trial to Maintain Glycemic Control in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes
  
• Erratum: A 62-Year-Old Man with Paresthesias, Weight Loss, Jaundice, and Anemia
  
• Performance Improvement in Health Care — Seizing the Moment
  
• The Evolving Primary Care Physician
  
• Mental Illness — Comprehensive Evaluation or Checklist?
  
• Grief, Depression, and the DSM-5
  
• Warfarin and Aspirin in Patients with Heart Failure and Sinus Rhythm
  
• Risk of Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
  
• Azithromycin and the Risk of Cardiovascular Death
  
• Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality
  
• Somatic STAT3 Mutations in Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
  
• Secondary Prevention after Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
  
• Nevus Sebaceous
  
• “Half-Half” Blisters
  
• Case 15-2012
  
• Warfarin in Heart Failure
  
• Predicting Risk of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy from Natalizumab
  
• Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Repair
  
• Intramuscular versus Intravenous Benzodiazepines for Status Epilepticus
  
• Memory Enhancement and Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal Area