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  1. Emergency start (ES) of dialysis has been associated with worse outcome, but remains poorly documented. This study aims to compare the profile and outcome of a large cohort of patients starting dialysis as an ...

    Authors: Alain Michel, Adelaide Pladys, Sahar Bayat, Cécile Couchoud, Thierry Hannedouche and Cécile Vigneau
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:233
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2018 19:266

  2. In low-immunological risk kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), reduced exposure to calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) appears particularly attractive for avoiding adverse events, but may increase the risk of developi...

    Authors: S. Girerd, J. Schikowski, N. Girerd, K. Duarte, H. Busby, N. Gambier, M. Ladrière, M. Kessler, L. Frimat and A. Aarnink
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:232
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  3. End-stage renal disease (ESRD) although rare among infants presents many management challenges. We sought to evaluate factors associated with PD catheter failure among infants initiated on chronic PD.

    Authors: Peace D. Imani, Jennifer L. Carpenter, Cynthia S. Bell, Mary L. Brandt, Michael C. Braun and Sarah J. Swartz
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:231
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  4. Patients on dialysis are physically inactive, with most reporting activity levels below the fifth percentile of healthy age-matched groups. Several small studies have reported efficacy of diverse exercise inte...

    Authors: Ram Jagannathan, Susan Lynn Ziolkowski, Mary Beth Weber, Jason Cobb, Nhat Pham, Jin Long, Shuchi Anand and Felipe Lobelo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:230
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. Long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation (KT) have not significantly improved during the past twenty years. Despite being a leading cause of graft failure, glomerular disease (GD) recurrence remains poorly...

    Authors: Audrey Uffing, Maria José Pérez-Sáez, Gaetano La Manna, Giorgia Comai, Clara Fischman, Samira Farouk, Roberto Ceratti Manfro, Andrea Carla Bauer, Bruno Lichtenfels, Juliana B. Mansur, Hélio Tedesco-Silva, Gianna M. Kirsztajn, Anna Manonelles, Oriol Bestard, Miguel Carlos Riella, Silvia Regina Hokazono…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:229
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies are highly specific for Goodpasture’s or anti-GBM disease, in which they are generally directed against the non-collagenous (NC1) domain of the alpha 3 chain ...

    Authors: Omid Sadeghi-Alavijeh, Scott Henderson, Paul Bass, Terence Cook, Kirsten DeGroot and Alan David Salama
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:228
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. The present increase in life span has been accompanied by an even higher increase in the burden of comorbidity. The challenges to healthcare systems are enormous and performance measures have been introduced t...

    Authors: Jean Philippe Coindre, Romain Crochette, Conrad Breuer and Giorgina Barbara Piccoli
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:227
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  9. Iron deficiency is highly prevalent in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. In clinical practice, iron deficiency is defined based on a combination of two commonly used markers, ferritin and transferrin satu...

    Authors: Michele F. Eisenga, Ilja M. Nolte, Peter van der Meer, Stephan J. L. Bakker and Carlo A. J. M. Gaillard
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:225
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis is rare in haematological malignancies and tends to manifest as minimal change disease, membranous glomerulonephritis or membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. We present t...

    Authors: Monica Suet Ying Ng, Leo Francis, Elango Pillai and Andrew John Mallett
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:224
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  11. Eighty percent of children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) relapse within 2 years and 40–50% patients show frequently-relapsing nephrotic syndrome (FRNS). Patients showing a relapse within 6 m...

    Authors: Taketsugu Hama, Koichi Nakanishi, Kenji Ishikura, Shuichi Ito, Hidefumi Nakamura, Mayumi Sako, Mari Saito-Oba, Kandai Nozu, Yuko Shima, Kazumoto Iijima and Norishige Yoshikawa
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:223
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  12. Corticosteroids are widely used to reduce the urine protein levels of patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN). However, their potential preventive effects on end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) are unclear.

    Authors: Ryoya Tsunoda, Joichi Usui, Junichi Hoshino, Takayuki Fujii, Satoshi Suzuki, Kenmei Takaichi, Yoshifumi Ubara and Kunihiro Yamagata
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:222
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Transcriptome analysis is emerging as emerging as a promising tool to enhance precision of diagnosis and monitoring in solid organ transplantation. Clinical progress has however been hampered by the current re...

    Authors: Øystein Eikrem, Tedd C. Walther, Arnar Flatberg, Vidar Beisvag, Philipp Strauss, Magnus Farstad, Christian Beisland, Even Koch, Thomas F. Mueller and Hans-Peter Marti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:221
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  15. Nephrotoxicity is a major hazard complicating the use of platinum based drugs (PBD), which can hinder using higher doses protocols to maximize the therapeutic gain. Shortage of serum creatinine level as an acc...

    Authors: Mostafa Abdelsalam, Ekramy Elmorsy, Hassan Abdelwahab, Osman Algohary, Mahmoud Naguib, Ahmed Abd El Wahab, Ahmed Eldeeb, Ehab Eltoraby, Adel Abdelsalam, Alaa Sabry, Mohamed El-Metwally, Mohamed Akl, Nahla Anber, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Fahad Almutairi and Tamer Mansour
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:219
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  16. Previous studies have reported a wide range of prevalence of post-donation anxiety, depression, and regret in living kidney donors (LKDs). It is also unclear what risk factors are associated with these outcomes.

    Authors: Courtenay M. Holscher, Joseph Leanza, Alvin G. Thomas, Madeleine M. Waldram, Christine E. Haugen, Kyle R. Jackson, Sunjae Bae, Allan B. Massie and Dorry L. Segev
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:218
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Following publication of the original article [1], an error in one of the author names was reported. In this Correction the incorrect and correct author names are listed.

    Authors: Eunjeong Kang, Joongyub Lee, Hyo Jin Kim, Miyeun Han, Soo Wan Kim, Kyu-Beck Lee, Suah Sung, Tae-Hyun Yoo, Wookyung Chung, Curie Ahn and Kook-Hwan Oh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:217
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2018 19:203

  18. The risk of infective endocarditis (IE) is markedly increased in patients receiving chronic hemodialysis compared with the general population, but outcome data are sparse. The present study investigated causes...

    Authors: Mavish S. Chaudry, Gunnar H. Gislason, Anne-Lise Kamper, Marianne Rix, Anders Dahl, Lauge Østergaard, Emil L. Fosbøl, Trine K. Lauridsen, Louise B. Oestergaard, Christian Hassager, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Niels E. Bruun
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:216
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. The clinical outcome varies considerably in primary membranous nephropathy (pMN). Risk factors for kidney prognosis include ageing, male gender, persistent heavy proteinuria, decreased eGFR at presentation, pe...

    Authors: Xiao-dan Zhang, Zhao Cui, Mu-fan Zhang, Jia Wang, Yi-miao Zhang, Zhen Qu, Xin Wang, Jing Huang, Fang Wang, Li-qiang Meng, Xu-yang Cheng, Su-xia Wang, Gang Liu and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:215
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Intradialytic hypotension is a common complication of hemodialysis. The Hemocontrol biofeedback system, improving intradialytic hemodynamic stability, is associated with an initial transient increase in plasma...

    Authors: Esmée M. Ettema, Johanna Kuipers, Martijn van Faassen, Henk Groen, Arie M. van Roon, Joop D. Lefrandt, Ralf Westerhuis, Ido P. Kema, Harry van Goor, Ron T. Gansevoort, Carlo A. J. M. Gaillard and Casper F. M. Franssen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:214
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  21. With advancement of hemodialysis (HD) technique, late fistula failure (LFF) remains a problem significantly affecting life quality of patients. We attempt to identify factors affecting LFF in patients on chron...

    Authors: Cheng-Chieh Yen, Ching-Fang Tsai, Yueh-Yun Luo, Hsin-Yi Yang, Mei-Yin Liu, Peir-Haur Hung and Yueh-Han Hsu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:213
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  22. Cardiovascular complications are common in kidney transplant patients and calcification propensity of blood, measured as T50, is associated with cardiovascular outcomes. Paricalcitol supplementation affects calci...

    Authors: Amin Ussif, Hege Pihlstrøm, Andreas Pasch, Hallvard Holdaas, Anders Hartmann, Knut Smerud and Anders Åsberg
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:212
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. To address a current paucity of European data, this study developed equations to predict risks of mortality, major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and renin angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitor (RAASi) disco...

    Authors: Hans Furuland, Phil McEwan, Marc Evans, Cecilia Linde, Daniel Ayoubkhani, Ameet Bakhai, Eirini Palaka, Hayley Bennett and Lei Qin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:211
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  24. The management of malignancy post kidney transplantation includes reduction in immunosuppression and referral to an oncologist management of their malignancy. Recent advances in oncology have resulted in the a...

    Authors: Jonathan W. Goldman, Basmah Abdalla, Melody A. Mendenhall, Anthony Sisk, Jaime Hunt, Gabriel M. Danovitch and Erik L. Lum
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:210
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  25. Obesity emerged as the leading global health concern in 2017. Although higher body mass index (BMI) is a health risk in the general population, its implications for chronic kidney disease (CKD) are not entirel...

    Authors: Samuel Chan, Anne Cameron, Zaimin Wang, Sree K. Venuthurupalli, Ken S. Tan, Helen G. Healy and Wendy E. Hoy
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:209
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) is a form of small vessel vasculitis associated with purpura and IgA deposition in the glomeruli. The International Study of Kidney Disease in Children (ISKDC) classif...

    Authors: Koji Inagaki, Ahmad Baseer Kaihan, Asaka Hachiya, Takaya Ozeki, Masahiko Ando, Sawako Kato, Yoshinari Yasuda and Shoichi Maruyama
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:208
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Minimal change disease (MCD) is a common cause of the nephrotic syndrome in adults with limited evidence on its treatment and prognosis. We examined the presenting characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of ...

    Authors: Anthony Fenton, Stuart W. Smith and Peter Hewins
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:207
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Obesity is a well-established risk factor for atherosclerosis. However, it is unknown which measure of adiposity best relates to atherosclerosis in relatively lean maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. We a...

    Authors: Chaomin Zhou, Hongying Peng, Jing Yuan, Xin Lin, Yan Zha and Hui Chen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:206
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Conservative care is argued to be a reasonable treatment alternative for dialysis in older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, comparisons are scarce and generally focus on survival o...

    Authors: Wouter R. Verberne, Janneke Dijkers, Johannes C. Kelder, Anthonius B. M. Geers, Wilbert T. Jellema, Hieronymus H. Vincent, Johannes J. M. van Delden and Willem Jan W. Bos
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:205
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Research note to this article has been published in BMC Research Notes 2019 12:722

  31. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease and mortality. However, the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and LVH in chronic kidney disease remai...

    Authors: Eunjeong Kang, Joongyub Lee, Hyo Jin Kim, Miyeun Han, Soo Wan Kim, Kyu-Beck Lee, Suah Sung, Tae-Hyun Yoo, Wookyung Chung, Curie Ahn and Kook-Hwan Oh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:203
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2018 19:217

  32. Volume overload poses a major risk in hemodialysis patients but simple detection methods are lacking. We propose a novel marker, the Interdialytic Creatinine Rise (IDCR), readily calculated as the change in se...

    Authors: Ljubomir M. Ilic, Roger B. Davis, Robert S. Brown and Stewart H. Lecker
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:202
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Few post-marketing surveillance studies have examined the safety and efficacy of Rapamune® (Sirolimus) in Asian countries. This study aimed to better understand safety and efficacy of Rapamune for kidney trans...

    Authors: Hee Jung Jeon, Hahn-Ey Lee and Jaeseok Yang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:201
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Microalbuminuria signifies the onset of diabetic nephropathy, but normoalbuminuric patients with diabetes who have a low Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) are not uncommon. The purpose of the study was to estim...

    Authors: Polwatta Liyanage Gayani Chandima Liyanage, Sarath Lekamwasam, Thilak Priyantha Weerarathna and Dodanduwa Waduge Shyamal Yashodara Srikantha
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Cardiovascular disease is prevalent in children on dialysis and accounts for almost 30% of all deaths. Randomised trials in adults suggest that haemodiafiltration (HDF) with high convection volumes is associat...

    Authors: Rukshana Shroff, Aysun Bayazit, Constantinos J. Stefanidis, Varvara Askiti, Karolis Azukaitis, Nur Canpolat, Ayse Agbas, Ali Anarat, Bilal Aoun, Sevcan Bakkaloglu, Devina Bhowruth, Dagmara Borzych-Dużałka, Ipek Kaplan Bulut, Rainer Büscher, Claire Dempster, Ali Duzova…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:199
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often asymptomatic in its early stages but is indicated and is diagnosed with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 60 ml/min/1.73m2. Certain sociodemographic groups are...

    Authors: Irene Ma, Maggie Guo, Daniel Muruve, Hallgrimur Benediktsson and Christopher Naugler
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:198
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Dialysis is often initiated in the hospital during episodes of acute kidney injury and critical illness. Little is known about how patients or their surrogate decision makers feel about dialysis initiation in ...

    Authors: Amar D. Bansal, Nina R. O’Connor and David J. Casarett
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:197
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Exercise improves functional outcomes and quality of life of older patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis. Yet exercise is not promoted as part of routine care. Health care providers and...

    Authors: Pia Kontos, Alisa Grigorovich, Romeo Colobong, Karen-Lee Miller, Gihad E. Nesrallah, Malcolm A. Binns, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Trisha Parsons, Sarbjit Vanita Jassal, Alison Thomas and Gary Naglie
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:195
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. While there is a great deal of research updating methods for estimating renal function, many of these methods are being developed in either adults with CKD or younger children. Currently, there is limited unde...

    Authors: Michael Webster-Clark, Byron Jaeger, Yi Zhong, Guido Filler, Ana Alvarez-Elias, Nora Franceschini and Maria E. Díaz-González de Ferris
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Genitourinary tuberculosis (GUTB) is a type of extrapulmonary TB that exerts a deleterious effect on renal function by promoting renal calcification and ureteric stricture. Therefore, we investigated the risk ...

    Authors: Eun Jin Kim, Woonji Lee, Woo Yong Jeong, Hen Choi, In Young Jung, Jin Young Ahn, Su Jin Jeong, Nam Su Ku, Jun Yong Choi, Young Hwa Choi, Young Goo Song and June Myung Kim
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:193
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  42. Increased plasma level of lipoprotein(a) (Lpa) is a risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. This study aimed to explore the role of Lpa in the progression of atherosclerosis in patients with end-stage renal di...

    Authors: Kun Ling Ma, Tie Kai Gong, Ze Bo Hu, Yang Zhang, Gui Hua Wang, Liang Liu, Pei Pei Chen, Jian Lu, Chen Chen Lu and Bi Cheng Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:192
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) has emerged as a new sepsis biomarker. It is not known whether suPAR has a role in critically ill patients with severe acute kidney injury (AKI).

    Authors: Anna Hall, Siobhan Crichton, Matt Varrier, Danielle E. Bear and Marlies Ostermann
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:191
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Investigations on the role of the time-mean serum uric acid (SUA) value in determining the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are limited. We investigated whether the time-mean SUA value indicates the risk o...

    Authors: Meiyu Ye, Kang Hu, Juan Jin, Diandian Wu, Peiying Hu and Qiang He
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:190
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Kidney transplantation (KTx) is the best therapeutic approach for chronic kidney diseases leading to irreversible kidney failure. Considering the origin of the graft, several studies have reported differences ...

    Authors: S. Inés Lozano-Ramos, Ioana Bancu, Laura Carreras-Planella, Marta Monguió-Tortajada, Laura Cañas, Javier Juega, Josep Bonet, M. Pilar Armengol, Ricardo Lauzurica and Francesc E. Borràs
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:189
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  46. Ongoing efforts are focused on shortening ischemia intervals as much as possible during partial nephrectomy to preserve renal function. Off-clamp partial nephrectomy (off-PN) has been a common strategy for to ...

    Authors: Wen Deng, Xiaoqiang Liu, Jieping Hu, Luyao Chen and Bin Fu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:188
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) was introduced to predict poor prognosis in various diseases, but not all variants of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). In this study, we aimed to investigate whether NLR a...

    Authors: Sung Soo Ahn, Seung Min Jung, Jason Jungsik Song, Yong-Beom Park and Sang-Won Lee
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:187
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Both dialysis facilities and hospitals are accountable for 30-day hospital readmissions among U.S. hemodialysis patients. We examined the association of post-hospitalization processes of care at hemodialysis f...

    Authors: Laura C. Plantinga, Tahsin Masud, Janice P. Lea, John M. Burkart, Christopher M. O’Donnell and Bernard G. Jaar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:186
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. End stage renal disease (ESRD) is on the rise globally. Varicella infection among adult patients with ESRD has been reported to lead to multiple complications and even death. While varicella vaccination has be...

    Authors: Chong Yau Ong, Sher Guan Low, Farhad Fakhrudin Vasanwala, Shashidhar Baikunje and Lian Leng Low
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2018 19:185
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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