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  1. Contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) particularly in high risk patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), increases morbidity and mortality. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a pro...

    Authors: Adis Tasanarong, Pisit Hutayanon and Dilok Piyayotai
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:270
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  2. Renal dysfunction is associated with a variety of cardiac alterations including left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, LV dilation, and reduction in systolic and diastolic function. It is common and associated wit...

    Authors: Morten Schou, Jesper Kjaergaard, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Christian Hassager, Finn Gustafsson, Dilek Akkan, Jacob E Moller and Lars Kober
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:267
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  3. Chronic fluid overload is associated with higher mortality in dialysis patients; however, the link with cardiovascular morbidity has not formally been established and may be influenced by subclinical inflammat...

    Authors: Marlies Antlanger, Manfred Hecking, Michael Haidinger, Johannes Werzowa, Johannes J Kovarik, Gernot Paul, Manfred Eigner, Diana Bonderman, Walter H Hörl and Marcus D Säemann
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:266
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  4. Equations to estimate GFR have not been well validated in the elderly and may misclassify persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We measured GFR and compared the performance of the Modification of Diet in ...

    Authors: Marcelo B Lopes, Lara Q Araújo, Michelle T Passos, Sonia K Nishida, Gianna M Kirsztajn, Maysa S Cendoroglo and Ricardo C Sesso
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:265
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  5. There have been major changes in the management of anemia in US hemodialysis patients in recent years. We sought to determine the influence of clinical trial results, safety regulations, and changes in reimbur...

    Authors: Dana C Miskulin, Jing Zhou, Navdeep Tangri, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Courtney Cook, Patti L Ephraim, Deidra C Crews, Julia J Scialla, Stephen M Sozio, Tariq Shafi, Bernard G Jaar and L Ebony Boulware
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:264
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  6. Clinical outcomes of dialysis patients are variable, and improved knowledge of prognosis would inform decisions regarding patient management. We assessed the value of simple, chest X-ray derived measures of ca...

    Authors: Ethan Bohn, Navdeep Tangri, Brent Gali, Blair Henderson, Manish M Sood, Paul Komenda and Claudio Rigatto
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:263
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  7. The current treatment options for idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN) carry significant toxicity. In this prospective, observational pilot study, we used single time infusion of bone marrow derived autolog...

    Authors: Upal Sengupta, Vinod Kumar, Ashok K Yadav, Neelam Marwaha, Harbir S Kohli, Vinay Sakhuja and Vivekanand Jha
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:262
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  8. Among kidney transplant recipients, non-adherence with immunosuppressive medications frequently precedes allograft loss. We sought to determine the prevalence and correlates of medication non-adherence among k...

    Authors: Francis L Weng, Sheenu Chandwani, Karen M Kurtyka, Christopher Zacker, Marie A Chisholm-Burns and Kitaw Demissie
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:261
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  9. The mechanism for the development of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) during sepsis has only been partially elucidated. TMA is recognized as a disease caused by various factors, and may be involved in the emer...

    Authors: Yusuke Sakamaki, Konosuke Konishi, Koichi Hayashi, Akinori Hashiguchi, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Eiji Kubota, Takao Saruta and Hiroshi Itoh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:260
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  10. Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is common in hemodialysis patients and is a powerful predictor of morbidity and mortality. Although much progress has been made in recent years in identifying the causes and pathog...

    Authors: Justine Magnard, Thibault Deschamps, Christophe Cornu, Anne Paris and Dan Hristea
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:259
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. There is no single model available to predict the long term survival for patients starting renal replacement therapy (RRT). The available models either predict survival on dialysis until transplantation, survi...

    Authors: Aline C Hemke, Martin BA Heemskerk, Merel van Diepen, Willem Weimar, Friedo W Dekker and Andries J Hoitsma
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:258
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  12. The ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI) can be used to predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertensive patients. However, data on AASI in Chinese patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD...

    Authors: Cheng Wang, Jun Zhang, Cui-Cui Li, Wen-Yu Gong, Xun Liu, Zeng-Chun Ye, Hui Peng and Tan-Qi Lou
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:257
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  13. The best treatment option for end-stage renal disease is usually a transplant, preferably a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT). The most effective ways to educate kidney transplant candidates about the risks,...

    Authors: Francis L Weng, Diane R Brown, John D Peipert, Bart Holland and Amy D Waterman
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:256
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  14. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome is characterized by neurological symptoms resulting from cerebral edema, which occurs as a consequence of hemodialysis. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome most often occurs in pa...

    Authors: Yohei Tsuchida, Takuma Takata, Toshihiko Ikarashi, Noriaki Iino, Junichiro J Kazama and Ichiei Narita
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:255
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. Few population-based studies have examined the relationship between glycemic status and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in China. We examined the prevalence of CKD across categories of glycemia [diagnosed diabete...

    Authors: Yi Zhou, Justin B Echouffo-Tcheugui, Jian-jun Gu, Xiao-nan Ruan, Gen-ming Zhao, Wang-hong Xu, Li-ming Yang, Hong Zhang, Hua Qiu, K M Venkat Narayan and Qiao Sun
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:253
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  17. Both vitamin C deficiency and inflammation are prevalent in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the effect of oral vitamin C supplementation on inflammatory status in ...

    Authors: KunYing Zhang, YinHui Li, XuYang Cheng, Li Liu, WenYing Bai, WeiYa Guo, LeiYun Wu and Li Zuo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:252
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  18. The purpose of this study was to determine whether AMPK influences the survival of primary cultures of mouse proximal tubular (MPT) cells subjected to metabolic stress. Previous studies, using an immortalized ...

    Authors: Wilfred Lieberthal, Meiyi Tang, Leiqing Zhang, Benoit Viollet, Vimal Patel and Jerrold S Levine
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:251
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  19. The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) has been widely integrated into clinical practice. Although useful in screening for CKD, its’ applica...

    Authors: Andrew A Udy, Fraser JA Morton, Sallyanne Nguyen-Pham, Paul Jarrett, Melissa Lassig-Smith, Janine Stuart, Rachel Dunlop, Therese Starr, Robert J Boots and Jeffrey Lipman
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:250
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  20. Several observational studies have evaluated the effect of a single exposure window with blood pressure (BP) medications on outcomes in incident dialysis patients, but whether BP medication prescription patter...

    Authors: Wendy L St Peter, Stephen M Sozio, Tariq Shafi, Patti L Ephraim, Jason Luly, Aidan McDermott, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Klemens B Meyer, Deidra C Crews, Julia J Scialla, Dana C Miskulin, Navdeep Tangri, Bernard G Jaar, Wieneke M Michels, Albert W Wu and L Ebony Boulware
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:249
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  22. Elevated cardiac troponin I (TnI) levels are associated with all-cause mortality in stable hemodialysis patients. Their relationship to cardiac-specific death has been inconsistent, and the reason for their el...

    Authors: Ahsan Alam, Andrea Palumbo, Istvan Mucsi, Paul E Barré and Allan D Sniderman
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:247
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  23. Low 24-hour urine volume (24UV) may be a significant risk factor for decline in kidney function. We therefore aimed to study associated markers and possible determinants of 24UV in a sample of the Swiss popula...

    Authors: Tobias Schoen, Jonas Blum, Fred Paccaud, Michel Burnier, Murielle Bochud and David Conen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:246
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  24. Placental growth factor (PlGF), pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE), extracellular newly identified receptor for RAGE binding protein (E...

    Authors: Oskar Zakiyanov, Vitezslav Kriha, Jan Vachek, Tomas Zima, Vladimir Tesar and Marta Kalousova
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:245
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  26. Hemoglobin (Hb) variability is a common occurrence in hemodialysis patients treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents. High amplitude fluctuations have been associated with greater risk of morbidity and m...

    Authors: Jacques B Rottembourg, Floride Kpade, Fadia Tebibel, Aurélie Dansaert and Gaelle Chenuc
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:243
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  27. Malnutrition affects 1/3 of hemodialysis patients and associates with a higher risk of morbidity and mortality. Serum albumin is a marker of nutrition and inflammation, and predicts mortality, particularly whe...

    Authors: Nagaraja Rao Sridhar and Sowmya Josyula
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:242
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  28. Disordered mineral metabolism is implicated in the pathogenesis of vascular calcification in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) is the main regulator of phosphate metabolism. In t...

    Authors: Abdullah Ozkok, Cigdem Kekik, Gonca Emel Karahan, Tamer Sakaci, Alper Ozel, Abdulkadir Unsal and Alaattin Yildiz
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:241
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  29. Urban migration is associated with an increased risk of hypertension, obesity and diabetes in Indian migrants. This study assessed the relationship between internal migration and renal function in the Hyderaba...

    Authors: Phillippa K Bailey, Charles RV Tomson, Sanjay Kinra, Shah Ebrahim, KV Radhakrishna, Hannah Kuper, Dorothea Nitsch and Yoav Ben-Shlomo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:240
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  30. The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on laboratory findings in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients in Fukushima.

    Authors: Nobuhiro Haga, Junya Hata, Michihiro Yabe, Kei Ishibashi, Norio Takahashi, Ken Kumagai, Souichiro Ogawa, Masao Kataoka, Hidenori Akaihata and Yoshiyuki Kojima
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:239
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  31. Traditionally, for DNA analyses, DNA is recovered from buffy coats. Since DNA in urine has been reported to deteriorate quickly, this option is often not considered. To complete our DNA database in patients wi...

    Authors: Marc Hilhorst, Ruud Theunissen, Henk van Rie, Pieter van Paassen and Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:238
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  32. Renal disease is a known contributor to mortality in adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) and renal abnormalities are evident in childhood. Hyperfiltration (evidenced by elevated glomerular filtration rate, G...

    Authors: Prasad Bodas, Alex Huang, Mary Ann O’Riordan, John R Sedor and Katherine MacRae Dell
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:237
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  33. Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a group of rare kidney diseases with a substantial health burden and high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. Research in GN has been limited by poor availability of larg...

    Authors: Sean Barbour, Monica Beaulieu, Jagbir Gill, Ognjenka Djurdjev, Heather Reich and Adeera Levin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:236
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  34. Chloride administration has been found to be harmful to the kidney in critically ill patients. However the association between plasma chloride concentration and renal function has never been investigated.

    Authors: Zhongheng Zhang, Xiao Xu, Haozhe Fan, Danyu Li and Hongsheng Deng
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:235
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  35. Because of the absorption of glucose in peritoneal dialysis (PD) solution, PD patients show an atherogenic lipid profile, which is predictive of poor survival in PD patients. Lipoprotein subclasses consist of ...

    Authors: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Asami Iwamoto, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Yoshitaka Maeda, Sei Sasaki and Masayuki Yoshida
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:234
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  37. Recent guidelines suggest the adoption of regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) as first choice CRRT anticoagulation modality in patients without contraindications for citrate. Regardless of the anticoagulati...

    Authors: Santo Morabito, Valentina Pistolesi, Luigi Tritapepe, Elio Vitaliano, Laura Zeppilli, Francesca Polistena, Enrico Fiaccadori and Alessandro Pierucci
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:232
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  38. Accumulated to-date microarray data on ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) of kidney represent a powerful source for identifying new targets and mechanisms of kidney IRI. In this study, we conducted a meta-analy...

    Authors: Dmitry N Grigoryev, Dilyara I Cheranova, Daniel P Heruth, Peixin Huang, Li Q Zhang, Hamid Rabb and Shui Q Ye
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:231
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  39. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) developed guidelines to care for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). While these are disseminated through the NKF...

    Authors: Michelle M Estrella, Bernard G Jaar, Kerri L Cavanaugh, Chester H Fox, Mark A Perazella, Sandeep S Soman, Emily Howell, Michael V Rocco and Michael J Choi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:230
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  40. Cardiac troponin T is independently associated with cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Serum levels of high sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-TnT) reflect subcl...

    Authors: Ruth F Dubin, Yongmei Li, Jiang He, Bernard G Jaar, Radhakrishna Kallem, James P Lash, Gail Makos, Sylvia E Rosas, Elsayed Z Soliman, Ray R Townsend, Wei Yang, Alan S Go, Martin Keane, Christopher deFilippi, Rakesh Mishra, Myles Wolf…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:229
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  41. Frailty is a condition characterized by a decline in physical function and functional capacity. Common symptoms of frailty, such as weakness and exhaustion, are prevalent in patients with chronic kidney diseas...

    Authors: Simon R Walker, Kamalpreet Gill, Kerry Macdonald, Paul Komenda, Claudio Rigatto, Manish M Sood, Clara J Bohm, Leroy J Storsley and Navdeep Tangri
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:228
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  42. Acute kidney injury (AKI) severely worsens prognosis of hospitalized patients. Early Endothelial Outgrowth Cells act protective in murine acute ischemic renal failure and renoprotective actions of eEOCs have b...

    Authors: Daniel Patschan, Jörg Rinneburger, Nazif Idrizi, Rico Backhaus, Katrin Schwarze, Elvira Henze, Susann Patschan and Gerhard A Müller
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:227
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  43. Chronic kidney disease–mineral and bone disorder (CKD–MBD) is a common complication in CKD patients, particularly in those with end-stage renal disease that requires dialysis. Lanthanum carbonate (LC) is a pot...

    Authors: Chenglong Zhang, Ji Wen, Zi Li and Junming Fan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:226
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  44. Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) represents a chronic progressive interstitial nephritis in striking correlation with uroepithelial tumours of the upper urinary tract. The disease has endemic distribution in t...

    Authors: Rada Staneva, Blaga Rukova, Savina Hadjidekova, Desislava Nesheva, Olga Antonova, Plamen Dimitrov, Valeri Simeonov, Georgi Stamenov, Rade Cukuranovic, Jovana Cukuranovic, Vladislav Stefanovic, Momir Polenakovic, Ivanka Dimova, Ruslan Hlushchuk, Valentin Djonov, Angel Galabov…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:225
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  45. Patients undergoing hemodialysis are at high risk of falls, with subsequent complications including fractures, loss of independence, hospitalization, and institutionalization. Factors associated with falls are...

    Authors: Mara A McAdams-DeMarco, Sunitha Suresh, Andrew Law, Megan L Salter, Luis F Gimenez, Bernard G Jaar, Jeremy D Walston and Dorry L Segev
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:224
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  46. Chronic progressive mesangioproliferative nephropathy represents a major cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide. Until now, effective approaches to stop or even slow its progression are limited. We tested ...

    Authors: Yingrui Wang-Rosenke, Dymtro Khadzhynov, Tanja Loof, Alice Mika, Hiroshi Kawachi, Hans-H Neumayer and Harm Peters
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:223
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  47. Bixalomer (BXL) was developed to improve gastrointestinal symptoms and reduce constipation, relative to sevelamer hydrochloride, in hemodialysis patients. We prospectively evaluated the safety and effectivenes...

    Authors: Shingo Hatakeyama, Hiromi Murasawa, Takuma Narita, Masaaki Oikawa, Naoki Fujita, Hiromichi Iwamura, Joutaro Mikami, Yuta Kojima, Tendo Sato, Ken Fukushi, Yusuke Ishibashi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takuya Koie, Hisao Saitoh, Tomihisa Funyu and Chikara Ohyama
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:222
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  48. Vascular calcification (VC) contributes to high mortality rates in chronic kidney disease (CKD). High serum phosphate and FGF23 levels and impaired phosphaturic response to FGF23 may affect VC. Therefore, thei...

    Authors: Lourdes Craver, Adriana Dusso, Montserrat Martinez-Alonso, Felipe Sarro, José M Valdivielso and Elvira Fernández
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:221
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  49. Poor sleep quality (SQ) and daytime sleepiness (DS) are common in renal transplant (RTx) recipients; however, related data are rare. This study describes the prevalence and frequency of self-reported sleep dis...

    Authors: Hanna Burkhalter, Daniel P Brunner, Anna Wirz-Justice, Christian Cajochen, Terri E Weaver, Jürg Steiger, Thomas Fehr, Reto M Venzin and Sabina De Geest
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:220
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  50. Accurate blood pressure monitoring is critical for the management of chronic kidney disease, but changes in management in secondary care clinics may be based on a single blood pressure reading, with a subseque...

    Authors: Shona Brothwell, Mary Dutton, Charles Ferro, Stephanie Stringer and Paul Cockwell
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2013 14:218
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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