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  1. Physical activity (PA) is exceptionally low amongst the haemodialysis (HD) population, and physical inactivity is a powerful predictor of mortality, making it a prime focus for intervention. Objective measurem...

    Authors: Hannah M. L. Young, Mark W. Orme, Yan Song, Maurice Dungey, James O. Burton, Alice C. Smith and Sally J. Singh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:450
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. In their correspondence, Hays et al. raise two main critiques of our recently published article entitled “Use of the KDQOL-36™ for assessment of health-related quality of life among dialysis patients in the Un...

    Authors: Dena E. Cohen, Andrew Lee, Scott Sibbel, Deborah Benner, Steven M. Brunelli and Francesca Tentori
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:448
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2019 20:447

  3. A recent article in the journal reported analyses of KDQOL-36™ survey data collected from 240,343 adults (330,412 surveys) dialyzed at a large dialysis organization in the United States during 2014–2016. The a...

    Authors: Ron D. Hays, John D. Peipert and Joel D. Kallich
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:447
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2019 20:112

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2019 20:448

  4. To investigate predictive factors related to graft failure of IgA nephropathy(IgAN) in renal allografts following living donor transplantation.

    Authors: Jin Zhang, Guo-dong Chen, Jiang Qiu, Guo-chang Liu, Li-zhong Chen, Kai Fu and Zi-xuan Wu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:446
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Galactomannan index (GMI) at a level higher than 0.5 provides high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of fungal peritonitis. Here, we report the false-positive of GMI in peritoneal dialysis (PD) eff...

    Authors: Tamonwan Chamroensakchai, Wasin Manuprasert, Asada Leelahavanichkul, Kullaya Takkavatakarn, Nisa Thongbor, Bunpring Jaroenpattrawut and Talerngsak Kanjanabuch
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:445
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  6. To investigate the correlation of M-type phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) expression and serum anti-PLA2R antibody with the clinical parameters and prognosis of patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy...

    Authors: Dan Dong, Ting-ting Fan, Ying-ying Wang, Lu Zhang, Li Song and Li Zhang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:444
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Proteinuria after kidney transplantation portends a worse graft survival. However the magnitude of proteinuria related to patient and graft survival and its correlation with donor and recipient characteristics...

    Authors: Davide Diena, Maria Messina, Consuelo De Biase, Fabrizio Fop, Edoardo Scardino, Maura M. Rossetti, Antonella Barreca, Aldo Verri and Luigi Biancone
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:443
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Successful renal transplantation (RT) reverses some of the cardiac changes and reduces cardiac mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Widened QRS-T angle reflects both ventricular repolarization and depolari...

    Authors: Andrzej Jaroszyński, Jacek Furmaga, Tomasz Zapolski, Tomasz Zaborowski, Sławomir Rudzki and Wojciech Dąbrowski
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:441
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Reliable, timely-onset, oral treatments with an acceptable safety profile for patients with hyperkalemia are needed. We examined the efficacy and safety of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (SZC; formerly ZS-9) t...

    Authors: Alpesh N. Amin, Jose Menoyo, Bhupinder Singh and Christopher S. Kim
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:440
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  11. In recent years, there has been a growing concern that abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) has a predictive effect on the prognosis of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, whether other vasc...

    Authors: Qingyu Niu, Huiping Zhao, Bei Wu, Shihming Tsai, Jian Wu, Meng Zhang, Lixia Lu, Jie Qiao, Chuncui Men, Li Zuo and Mei Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:439
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  12. There is paucity of data using direct anti-viral agents (DAA) in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) infected with HCV-genotype 1 & 3. Aim of the study was to evaluate DAA therapy in patients infected w...

    Authors: Shafiq Ur Rehman Cheema, Muhammad Salman Rehman, Ghulam Hussain, Sidra Shafiq Cheema and Nooman Gilani
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:438
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Despite improvement in short-term outcome of kidney transplants, the long-term survival of kidney transplants has not changed over past decades. Kidney biopsy is the gold standard of transplant pathology but i...

    Authors: Johanna Päivärinta, Vesa Oikonen, Anne Räisänen-Sokolowski, Tuula Tolvanen, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Hidehiro Iida, Pirjo Nuutila, Kaj Metsärinne and Niina Koivuviita
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:437
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. There is scarce data on CASR associations with dyslipidemia. We investigated in hemodialysis (HD) patients whether CASR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs7652589 and rs1801725 have associations with dyslip...

    Authors: Alicja E. Grzegorzewska, Bartosz A. Frycz, Monika Świderska, Leszek Niepolski, Adrianna Mostowska and Paweł P. Jagodziński
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:436
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Experimental studies have demonstrated that hypersecretion of growth hormone (GH) is associated with development of glomerular sclerosis. However, clinical case of such condition is very rare. Here we presente...

    Authors: Jia Zheng, Zhao Cui, Ji-cheng Lv, Hong-zhou Duan, Su-xia Wang, Jun-qing Zhang, Fu-de Zhou, Xiao-hui Guo and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:435
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for stroke in the general population. The impact of prior stroke on major clinical outcomes in CKD populations is poorly characterised.

    Authors: James Tollitt, Aghogho Odudu, Emma Flanagan, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Craig Smith and Philip A. Kalra
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:432
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) is a common glomerular disease in children. T cell dysfunction plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of PNS. Moreover, dysbiosis of gut microbiota contributes to immunologic...

    Authors: Yulin Kang, Dan Feng, Helen Ka-wai Law, Wei Qu, Ying Wu, Guang-hua Zhu and Wen-yan Huang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:434
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Renal hypouricemia (RHUC) is an inherited heterogenous disorder caused by faulty urate reabsorption transporters in the renal proximal tubular cells. Anaerobic exercise may induce acute kidney injury in indivi...

    Authors: Yoshitaka Furuto, Mariko Kawamura, Akio Namikawa, Hiroko Takahashi, Yuko Shibuya, Takayasu Mori and Eisei Sohara
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:433
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  19. Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the vascular access of choice for patients on hemodialysis. Recent evidence suggests that AVF creation may slow estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline. The study obj...

    Authors: Valérie Bénard, Maude Pichette, Jean-Philippe Lafrance, Naoual Elftouh, Vincent Pichette, Louis-Philippe Laurin and Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:420
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  20. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), including nephrotic syndrome, is a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The literature indicates that CKD is associated with profound lipid disorders due to the ...

    Authors: Hardik Ghelani, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski, Dennis Chang and Srinivas Nammi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:431
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Dysregulation of the B-cell activating factor (BAFF) system is involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Increased serum concentrations of BAFF are related to lupus nephritis and dise...

    Authors: Justa Friebus-Kardash, Marten Trendelenburg, Ute Eisenberger, Camillo Ribi, Carlo Chizzolini, Uyen Huynh-Do, Karl Sebastian Lang, Benjamin Wilde, Andreas Kribben, Oliver Witzke, Sebastian Dolff and Cornelia Hardt
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:430
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  22. Research suggests that patients with end stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis have a higher rate of depression and dietary non adherence leading to hospitalization and mortality. The purpose of this rev...

    Authors: Mignote Hailu Gebrie and Jodi Ford
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:429
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. The commonly used recommended criteria for renal recovery are not unequivocal. This study compared five different definitions of renal recovery in order to evaluate long-term outcomes of cardiac surgery associ...

    Authors: Jiarui Xu, Xialian Xu, Bo Shen, Yamin Zhuang, Lan Liu, Yimei Wang, Yi Fang, Zhe Luo, Jie Teng, Chunsheng Wang, Claudio Ronco, Jiawei Yu and Xiaoqiang Ding
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:427
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a hereditary disease characterized by the presence of renal cysts. Over time the expanding cysts lead to progressive renal failure. The use of tolvaptan,...

    Authors: Angela Maria Pellegrino, Luigi Annicchiarico Petruzzelli, Eleonora Riccio and Antonio Pisani
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:426
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. The aberrant activation of complement system is critically involved in lupus nephropathy. Recent study showed complement C3 inhibitor was effective in the treatment of lupus nephropathy. In this study, we inve...

    Authors: Yu Shi, Wen Yao, Li Sun, Guomin Li, Haimei Liu, Peipei Ding, Weiguo Hu and Hong Xu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:424
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Dialysis patients experience high rates of foot ulceration. Although risk factors for ulceration have been extensively studied in patients with diabetes, there is limited high-quality, longitudinal evidence in...

    Authors: Michelle R. Kaminski, Katrina A. Lambert, Anita Raspovic, Lawrence P. McMahon, Bircan Erbas, Peter F. Mount, Peter G. Kerr and Karl B. Landorf
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:423
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. In this single-center, retrospective observational study, we assessed the long-term patency of vascular access (VA) after first VA placement to uncover independent risk factors associated with VA patency in As...

    Authors: Seonjeong Jeong, Hyunwook Kwon, Jai Won Chang, Min-Ju Kim, Khaliun Ganbold, Youngjin Han, Tae-Won Kwon and Yong-Pil Cho
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:422
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Dietary acid load has been suggested to mediate the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, it is unclear what kinds of foods are actually associated with dietary acid load in patients with CKD. ...

    Authors: Koji Toba, Michihiro Hosojima, Hideyuki Kabasawa, Shoji Kuwahara, Toshiko Murayama, Keiko Yamamoto-Kabasawa, Ryohei Kaseda, Eri Wada, Reiko Watanabe, Naohito Tanabe, Yoshiki Suzuki, Ichiei Narita and Akihiko Saito
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:421
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  31. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is still characterized by a high mortality rate. While most patients with AKI are admitted in conventional medical units, current available data are still obtained from studies design...

    Authors: Jamal Bamoulid, Hélène Philippot, Amir Kazory, Maria Yannaraki, Thomas Crepin, Bérengère Vivet, Nadège Devillard, Caroline Roubiou, Catherine Bresson-Vautrin, Jean-Marc Chalopin, Cécile Courivaud and Didier Ducloux
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:419
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. IgG4-related disease, described around the years 2000 as a form of autoimmune pancreatitis, is now increasingly accepted as a systemic syndrome. The diagnosis is based on both comprehensive and organ-specific ...

    Authors: Giorgia Comai, Vania Cuna, Benedetta Fabbrizio, Elena Sabattini, Ornella Leone, Francesco Tondolo, Andrea Angeletti, Maria Cappuccilli, Rocco Liguori and Gaetano La Manna
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:418
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  33. Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is an uncommon cause of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and the clinical outcomes of patients with MPGN who commence kidney replacement therapy have not been com...

    Authors: Gregory J. Wilson, Yeoungjee Cho, Armando Teixiera-Pinto, Nicole Isbel, Scott Campbell, Carmel Hawley and David W. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:417
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  34. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health problem, exhibiting sharp increases in incidence, prevalence, and attributable morbidity and mortality. There is a critical need to better understand the ...

    Authors: Keith C. Norris, O. Kenrik Duru, Radica Z. Alicic, Kenn B. Daratha, Susanne B. Nicholas, Sterling M. McPherson, Douglas S. Bell, Jenny I. Shen, Cami R. Jones, Tannaz Moin, Amy D. Waterman, Joshua J. Neumiller, Roberto B. Vargas, Alex A. T. Bui, Carol M. Mangione and Katherine R. Tuttle
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:416
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported errors in the presentation of Tables 2, 4 and 5.

    Authors: Shubhadeep D. Sinha, Vamsi Krishna Bandi, Bala Reddy Bheemareddy, Pankaj Thakur, Sreenivasa Chary, Kalpana Mehta, Vikranth Reddy Pinnamareddy, Rajendra Pandey, Subhramanyam Sreepada and Santosh Durugkar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:415
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2019 20:90

  36. Secondary hyperparathyroidism is a common complication in patients with chronic kidney disease that requires vigilant treatment due to its high mortality rate. Pharmacologic therapy is recommended as an initia...

    Authors: Ho-Ryun Won, Jae Yoon Kang, In Ho Lee, Jin-Man Kim, Jae Won Chang and Bon Seok Koo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:414
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  37. Desmopressin is used to reduce bleeding after kidney biopsy but evidence supporting its use is weak, especially in patients with elevated creatinine. The present study was undertaken to evaluate efficacy of de...

    Authors: Ambarish Athavale, Hemant Kulkarni, Cagil D. Arslan and Peter Hart
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:413
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Inflammaging is a persistent, low−grade, sterile, nonresolving inflammatory state, associated with the senescence of the immune system. Such condition downregulates both innate and adaptive immune responses du...

    Authors: Vincenzo Sepe, Marilena Gregorini, Teresa Rampino, Pasquale Esposito, Rosanna Coppo, Francesco Galli and Carmelo Libetta
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:412
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Peritoneal fibrosis is the most common complication of peritoneal dialysis, but there is currently no effective treatment. We previously reported that suramin pretreatment prevents the development of peritonea...

    Authors: Chongxiang Xiong, Na Liu, Xiaofei Shao, Sairah Sharif, Hequn Zou and Shougang Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:411
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. IgA nephropathy (IgAN) involves mesangial matrix expansion, but the proteomic composition of this matrix is unknown. The present study aimed to characterize changes in extracellular matrix in IgAN.

    Authors: Flavia Teodora Ioana Paunas, Kenneth Finne, Sabine Leh, Tarig Al-Hadi Osman, Hans-Peter Marti, Frode Berven and Bjørn Egil Vikse
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:410
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Delayed graft function (DGF) is an important complication of kidney transplantation and can be diagnosed according to different definitions. DGF has been suggested to be associated with the long-term outcome o...

    Authors: Xiao-jun Hu, Jin Zheng, Yang Li, Xiao-hui Tian, Pu-xun Tian, He-li Xiang, Xiao-ming Pan, Chen-guang Ding, Xiao-ming Ding and Wu-jun Xue
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:409
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Nonadherence to medications by patients requiring hemodialysis (HD) leads to unfavorable clinical outcomes. Limited data exist to demonstrate the effect of incorporating patient-centered interventions using co...

    Authors: Sherine Ismail, Abrar Al-Subhi, Eman Youssif, Medhat Ahmed, Abdullah Almalki, Diane L. Seger, Andrew C. Seger and Earl Cook
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:408
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Following a substantial increase in the utilization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during the last decade, its associated benefits and complications, including acute kidney injury have become mo...

    Authors: Kianoush Kashani and Marlies Ostermann
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:404
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  45. Kidney disease is a serious manifestation of systemic amyloidosis and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Tuberculosis (TB) occurs up to 27 times more commonly in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infec...

    Authors: Muhammed Hassen, William Bates and Mohammed Rafique Moosa
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:406
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Persistent hyperparathyroidism after kidney transplantation has been associated with adverse outcomes. Parathyroidectomy is the definitive treatment approach, but the success of parathyroidectomy relies on the...

    Authors: Jun Yang, Jun Zhang, Jian-li Bi, Wan-wen Weng and Meng-jie Dong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:405
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  47. The renal function of the remaining kidney in living donors recovers up to 60~70% of pre-donation estimated-glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by compensatory hypertrophy. However, the degree of this hypertroph...

    Authors: Sho Nishida, Yuji Hidaka, Mariko Toyoda, Kohei Kinoshita, Kosuke Tanaka, Chiaki Kawabata, Satoshi Hamanoue, Akito Inadome, Hiroshi Yokomizo, Asami Takeda, Soichi Uekihara and Shigeyoshi Yamanaga
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:403
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Patients with chronic kidney diseases (CKD) on haemodialysis (HD) have high morbidity and mortality rates, which are also due to the inherent risks associated with nephropathy. Non-adherence (NA) to the differ...

    Authors: Lianna G. G. Dantas, Mário de Seixas Rocha, José Andrade Moura Junior, Edson Luiz Paschoalin, Sandra R. K. P. Paschoalin and Constança M. Sampaio Cruz
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:402
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Cystinosis is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterized by accumulation of cystine in lysosomes throughout the body. Cystinosis is caused by mutations in the CTNS gene that encodes the lysos...

    Authors: Svetlana Papizh, Victoria Serzhanova, Alexandra Filatova, Mikhail Skoblov, Vyacheslav Tabakov, Lambert van den Heuvel, Elena Levtchenko and Larisa Prikhodina
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:400
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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