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  1. Early preparation for renal replacement therapy (RRT) is recommended for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet many patients initiate RRT urgently and/or are inadequately prepared.

    Authors: Raquel C Greer, Jessica M Ameling, Kerri L Cavanaugh, Bernard G Jaar, Vanessa Grubbs, Carrie E Andrews, Patti Ephraim, Neil R Powe, Julia Lewis, Ebele Umeukeje, Luis Gimenez, Sam James and L Ebony Boulware
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:37
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  2. Symptom burden in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is poorly understood. To date, the majority of research focuses on single symptoms and there is a lack of suitable multidimensional symptom measures. The purpose ...

    Authors: Hayfa Almutary, Ann Bonner and Clint Douglas
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:36
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  3. Recent studies suggest a causal role for increased plasma uric acid in the progression of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI). However, uric acid also functions as an antioxidant with possible beneficial effects.

    Authors: Venla Kurra, Tuija Vehmas, Arttu Eräranta, Jarkko Jokihaara, Päivi Pirttiniemi, Heikki Ruskoaho, Heikki Tokola, Onni Niemelä, Jukka Mustonen and Ilkka Pörsti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:35
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  4. It is unknown whether variability of estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) is a risk factor for dialysis or death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study aimed to evaluate variability o...

    Authors: Chin-Lin Tseng, Jean-Philippe Lafrance, Shou-En Lu, Orysya Soroka, Donald R Miller, Miriam Maney and Leonard M Pogach
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:34
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  5. Socioeconomic characteristics may affect the outcomes of patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD). There are two major medical insurances in China: the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), mainly for r...

    Authors: Zengsi Wang, Yanmin Zhang, Fei Xiong, Hongbo Li, Yanqiong Ding, Yihua Gao, Li Zhao and Sheng Wan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:33
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  6. The usage of nursing home (NH) services is a marker of frailty among older adults. Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the Medical Evidence Report Form CMS-2728 in 2005 to inclu...

    Authors: C Barrett Bowling, Rebecca Zhang, Harold Franch, Yijian Huang, Anna Mirk, William M McClellan, Theodore M Johnson II and Nancy G Kutner
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:32
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  7. Patient registries have great potential for providing data that describe disease burden, treatments, and outcomes; which can be used to improve patient care. Many renal registries exist, but a central reposito...

    Authors: Frank Xiaoqing Liu, Peter Rutherford, Karen Smoyer-Tomic, Sarah Prichard and Suzanne Laplante
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:31
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  8. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and is associated with high mortality. Type of ICU, category of admission diagnosis, and socioeconomic characteristics of the region...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto Santos and Diego Levi Silveira Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:30
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  9. Understanding the regulation of mineral homeostasis and function of the skeleton as buffer for Calcium and Phosphate has regained new interest with introduction of the syndrome “Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral ...

    Authors: Anders Nordholm, Maria L Mace, Eva Gravesen, Klaus Olgaard and Ewa Lewin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:29
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  10. Women with chronic kidney disease have an increased risk of maternal and fetal complications in pregnancy. Pre-pregnancy counselling is recommended but the format of the counselling process and the experience ...

    Authors: Kate S Wiles, Kate Bramham, Alina Vais, Kate R Harding, Paramit Chowdhury, Cath J Taylor and Catherine Nelson-Piercy
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:28
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  11. The TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) contributes to kidney inflammation producing secretion by renal cells. The present study examined whether the level of TWEAK is associated with histologic finding...

    Authors: Yohei Sasaki, Yoshio Shimizu, Yusuke Suzuki, Satoshi Horikoshi and Yasuhiko Tomino
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:27
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  12. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common form of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and occurs at a frequency of 1/800 to 1/1000 affecting all ethnic groups worldwide. ADPKD shows s...

    Authors: Hamad Ali, Naser Hussain, Medhat Naim, Mohamed Zayed, Fahd Al-Mulla, Elijah O Kehinde, Lauren M Seaburg, Jamie L Sundsbak and Peter C Harris
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:26
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  13. Cool dialysate is often recommended for prevention of intra-dialytic hypotensive episodes in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, its effect on toxin removal is not studied. It is known that inter-...

    Authors: Vaibhav Maheshwari, Titus Lau, Lakshminarayanan Samavedham and Gade P Rangaiah
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:25
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  14. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with poor outcome in critically ill children. While data extracted from retrospective study of pediatric populations demonstrate a high incidence of AKI, the literature ...

    Authors: Rajit K Basu, Ahmad Kaddourah, Tara Terrell, Theresa Mottes, Patricia Arnold, Judd Jacobs, Jennifer Andringa and Stuart L Goldstein
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:24
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  15. The outcome of kidney allograft transplantation is associated with numerous donor-dependent and recipient-dependent immunological and non-immunological factors. Studies on genetic factors affecting the non-imm...

    Authors: Leszek Domański, Karolina Kłoda, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Ewa Borowiecka, Krzysztof Safranow, Arleta Drozd, Andrzej Ciechanowicz and Kazimierz Ciechanowski
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:23
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  16. Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is a rare but frequently severe disorder that is typically characterized by cystic kidneys and congenital hepatic fibrosis but displays pronounced phenotyp...

    Authors: Kathrin Ebner, Markus Feldkoetter, Gema Ariceta, Carsten Bergmann, Reinhard Buettner, Anke Doyon, Ali Duzova, Heike Goebel, Dieter Haffner, Barbara Hero, Bernd Hoppe, Thomas Illig, Augustina Jankauskiene, Norman Klopp, Jens König, Mieczyslaw Litwin…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:22
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  17. The first aim of the study was to investigate the accuracy and intra-laboratory variation of serum creatinine measurements in clinical laboratories in Flanders. The second purpose was to check the effect of th...

    Authors: Liesbeth Hoste, Kathleen Deiteren, Hans Pottel, Nico Callewaert and Frank Martens
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:21
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  18. Increasing dialysate flow rates (Qd) from 500 to 800 ml/min has been recommended to increase dialysis efficiency. A few publications show that increasing Qd no longer led to an increase in mass transfer area c...

    Authors: Marta Albalate, Rafael Pérez-García, Patricia de Sequera, Elena Corchete, Roberto Alcazar, Mayra Ortega and Marta Puerta
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:20
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  19. Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) is expressed in tubular epithelial cells after injury and may have a role in the development of renal graft fibrosis. In this study we evaluated the molecular and protein expre...

    Authors: Aline Lima Nogare, Francisco Veríssimo Veronese, Virna Nowotny Carpio, Rosangela Munhoz Montenegro, José Alberto Pedroso, Karla Laís Pegas, Luiz Felipe Gonçalves and Roberto Ceratti Manfro
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:19
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  20. The role of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a diagnostic marker for acute kidney injury (AKI) in sepsis is still debated. We hypothesized that in sepsis, the performance of serum(s) and ur...

    Authors: Jill Vanmassenhove, Griet Glorieux, Norbert Lameire, Eric Hoste, Annemieke Dhondt, Raymond Vanholder and Wim Van Biesen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:18
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  21. Recent studies have reported an association between periodontal disease and mortality among dialysis patients. Therefore, preventive dental care should be considered very important for this population. In Japa...

    Authors: Masami Yoshioka, Yasuhiko Shirayama, Issei Imoto, Daisuke Hinode, Shizuko Yanagisawa and Yuko Takeuchi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:17
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  22. Irisin, an exercise induced myokine, has broad implications for metabolism and energy homeostasis. Available evidence about the association of serum irisin with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is limited.

    Authors: Shuyu Yang, Fangsen Xiao, Lingling Pan, Huijie Zhang, Zhimin Ma, Suhuan Liu, Yongwen Liu, Wei Zhang, Xin Zeng, Changqin Liu, Xiaoying Li, Xuejun Li and Zhibin Li
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:16
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  23. Nephrotoxicity due to drugs especially beta lactams and cephalosporins has been well recognised. Cefepime is a fourth-generation cephalosporin that is widely prescribed with few severe adverse reactions report...

    Authors: Kathy Mac, Ruchir Chavada, Sharon Paull, Kenneth Howlin and Jeffrey Wong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:15
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  24. The degree to which genetic or environmental factors are associated with early kidney damage among African Americans (AAs) is unknown.

    Authors: Ruth Tamrat, Carmen A Peralta, Salman M Tajuddin, Michele K Evans, Alan B Zonderman and Deidra C Crews
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:14
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  25. Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a genetic disorder characterized by multiple cysts and renal failure at an early age. In children, kidney disease is often accompanied by disordered mineral metabolism, failure...

    Authors: Kaitlin H Maditz, Brenda J Smith, Matthew Miller, Chris Oldaker and Janet C Tou
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:13
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  26. Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HB...

    Authors: Luciana Sowole, Wendy Labbett, Mauli Patel, Aisling O’Riordan, Jennifer Cross, Andrew Davenport and Tanzina Haque
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:12
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  27. Mortality rate among patients with stage five chronic kidney disease (CKD) maintained on hemodialysis (HD) is high. Although evidence suggests that use of Vitamin D Receptor Activators (VDRA) in CKD patients i...

    Authors: Piergiorgio Messa, Mario Cozzolino, Diego Brancaccio, Giuseppe Cannella, Fabio Malberti, Anna Maria Costanzo, Umberto di Luzio Paparatti, Vincenzo Festa, Giuliana Gualberti and Sandro Mazzaferro
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:11
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  28. Kimura's disease (KD) is a slowly progressing rare, benign inflammatory disorder of the soft tissues. It typically presents as subcutaneous tumor-like nodules, located most frequently in the head and neck regi...

    Authors: Sheng-lang Zhu, Peng-fei Wei, Jie-hui Chen, Zhen-fu Zhao, Qian-na Xu and Ling Ye
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:10
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Variants in CUBN, the gene encoding cubilin, a proximal tubular transport protein, have been associated with albuminuria and vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency. We hypothesized that low levels of B12 would be associate...

    Authors: Gearoid M McMahon, Shih-Jen Hwang, Rikki M Tanner, Paul F Jacques, Jacob Selhub, Paul Muntner and Caroline S Fox
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:7
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  30. Numerous well-established clinical parameters are taken into consideration for the follow-up adaptation of kidney transplant recipients, but there are important disparities between countries, centres and clini...

    Authors: Yohann Foucher, Aurélie Meurette, Pascal Daguin, Angélique Bonnaud-Antignac, Jean-Benoît Hardouin, Sabrina Chailan, Karine Neau, Emmanuelle Papuchon, Sandra Gaboriau, Christophe Legendre, Emmanuel Morélon, Philippe Tessier and Magali Giral
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:6
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  31. Urinary albumin can be measured in 24 h or spot samples. The 24 h urinary albumin excretion rate is considered the gold standard, but is cumbersome to collect. Instead, often an overnight sample is collected, ...

    Authors: Peter Fagerstrom, Gerd Sallsten, Magnus Akerstrom, Borje Haraldsson and Lars Barregard
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:8
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  33. Phosphorus retention plays a pivotal role in the onset of mineral and bone disorders (MBD) in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Phosphorus retention commonly occurs as a result of net intestinal absorption exceedi...

    Authors: Claudia D’Alessandro, Giorgina B Piccoli and Adamasco Cupisti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:9
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  35. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of sepsis. We determined the prevalence of AKI among adult patients with sepsis on the medical wards in a low-income country and described their clinical patt...

    Authors: Peace Bagasha, Frederick Nakwagala, Arthur Kwizera, Emmanuel Ssekasanvu and Robert Kalyesubula
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:4
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  37. Multiple factors influence timing of dialysis initiation. The impact of supply of nephrology workforce on timing and incidence of dialysis initiation is not well known.

    Authors: Elaine Ku, Kirsten L Johansen, Anthony A Portale, Barbara Grimes and Chi-yuan Hsu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:2
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  38. There is a recent debate on the "transplantability" of ECD (Expanded Criteria Donors) kidneys and the selection criteria used to allocate them to single or double transplantation. Remuzzi et al. have defined a...

    Authors: Carlo Grifasi, Vincenzo D’Alessandro, Maria D’Armiento, Severo Campione, Alessandro Scotti, Luigi Pelosio and Andrea Renda
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:207
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  39. The significant impact Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) has on patient morbidity and mortality emphasizes the need for early recognition and effective treatment. AKI presenting to or occurring during hospitalisation ...

    Authors: Helen Hobbs, Paul Bassett, Toby Wheeler, Michael Bedford, Jean Irving, Paul E Stevens and Christopher KT Farmer
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:206
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  41. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing an in-vitro, closed loop hemodialysis system as a method to assess drug clearance. Secondarily, this study tested the influence of variables ...

    Authors: Soo Min Jang, Katie E Cardone, Thomas D Nolin, Darius L Mason and Darren W Grabe
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:204
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  42. AKI frequently develops in sepsis patients, significantly decreasing the overall prognosis. There are currently no diagnostic markers available which reliably predict the prognosis of sepsis-associated AKI. Re...

    Authors: Daniel Patschan, Malte Heeg, Maria Brier, Gunnar Brandhorst, Simon Schneider, Gerhard A Müller and Michael J Koziolek
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:203
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  43. This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of surveillance for screening and treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis and colonized by Staphylococcus aureus.

    Authors: Cibele Grothe, Mônica Taminato, Angélica Belasco, Ricardo Sesso and Dulce Barbosa
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:202
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  44. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) counteracts peritoneal fibrosis in animal models and in-vitro studies, but no study explored effluent HGF in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients with ultrafiltration failure (UFF)....

    Authors: Ana Paula Bernardo, José C Oliveira, Olívia Santos, Maria J Carvalho, António Cabrita and Anabela Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:201
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  45. Although most outpatients are relatively healthy, many have chronic renal insufficiency, and high override rates for suggestions on renal dosing have been observed. To better understand the override of renal d...

    Authors: Insook Cho, Sarah P Slight, Karen C Nanji, Diane L Seger, Nivethietha Maniam, Patricia C Dykes and David W Bates
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:200
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  47. Diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), as defined by a reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR), are at greater risk for cardiovascular and renal events and mortality. The aim of this study was t...

    Authors: Temesgen Fiseha, Mehidi Kassim and Tilahun Yemane
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:198
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  48. Dialysis patients suffer from a high burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Partly this is due to progressive deterioration of calcium-phosphate homeostasis. Previous studies suggested that besides FGF-23, lo...

    Authors: Maurits S Buiten, Mihály K de Bie, Annet Bouma-de Krijger, Bastiaan van Dam, Friedo W Dekker, J Wouter Jukema, Ton J Rabelink and Joris I Rotmans
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:197
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  49. Serum cystatin C (ScysC) may help predicting cardiovascular outcome not only through its ability to detect renal dysfunction but also through its potential connection to others factors that are directly relate...

    Authors: Miriana Dinic, Nicolas Maillard, Damien Thibaudin, Martin Jannot, Ingrid Masson, Eric Alamartine and Christophe Mariat
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:196
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  50. Little is known about patients’ and carers’ experiences of interacting with home haemodialysis (HHD) technology, in terms of user experience, how the design of the technology supports safety and fits with home...

    Authors: Atish Rajkomar, Ken Farrington, Astrid Mayer, Diane Walker and Ann Blandford
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2014 15:195
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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