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The Newlyweds
I fell in love with the science and physiology of nephrology as a medical student. What started as innocent flirtation soon grew into a torrid romance, and by the end of my pediatric residency, I deci...
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J. Bryan Carmody
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A25-A26
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Quiz Page June 2012: Kidney Failure in an HIV-Positive Patient
A 71-year-old man was admitted with a recent decrease in kidney function. In March 2008, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)-1 was diagnosed and cART (combination antiretroviral therapy) was started wi...
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S. Coelho,
S.R. Aparício,
R. Manso,
Katrina Soto
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A27-A30
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Regional Citrate Anticoagulation for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: The Better Alternative?
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Ashita Tolwani,
Keith M. Wille
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745-747
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Doctor, Should I Remain on Dialysis or Accept the ECD Kidney Offered to Me?
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Kristian Heldal,
Karsten Midtvedt
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748-750
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Eliminating Racial Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: How Can Centers Do Better?
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Peter P. Reese,
Meera Nair,
Roy D. Bloom
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751-753
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| In the Literature |
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Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients: No Light at the End of the Tunnel?
19 December 2011
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Gere Sunder-Plassmann,
Manuela Födinger,
Marcus D. Säemann
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754-757
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Desensitization Offers Hope to Highly HLA-Sensitized Patients for a Longer Life Expectancy After Incompatible Kidney Transplant
01 April 2012
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Stanley C. Jordan,
Ashley A. Vo
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758-760
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| Original Investigations |
| Pathogenesis and Treatment of Kidney Disease |
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Bone and Mineral Metabolism and Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Levels After Kidney Donation
17 November 2011
Background: Living kidney donation offers a unique setting to study changes in phosphate and vitamin D homeostasis attributable to mild isolated decreases in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR...
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Ann Young,
Anthony B. Hodsman,
Neil Boudville,
Colin Geddes,
John Gill,
David Goltzman,
Sarbjit Vanita Jassal,
Scott Klarenbach,
Gregory Knoll,
Norman Muirhead,
G.V. Ramesh Prasad,
Darin Treleaven,
Amit X. Garg,
Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network
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761-769
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Fracture Risk in Living Kidney Donors: A Matched Cohort Study
03 April 2012
Background: Chronic kidney disease increases the risk of bone fragility fractures (osteoporotic fractures). Living kidney donors lose 50% of their renal mass and show changes in calcium homeostasis. W...
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Amit X. Garg,
Jennie Pouget,
Ann Young,
Anjie Huang,
Neil Boudville,
Anthony Hodsman,
Jonathan D. Adachi,
William D. Leslie,
Suzanne M. Cadarette,
Charmaine E. Lok,
Mauricio Monroy-Cuadros,
G.V. Ramesh Prasad,
Sonia M. Thomas,
Kyla Naylor,
Darin Treleavan,
Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network
et al.
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770-776
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Association of Estimated GFR With Platelet Inhibition in Patients Treated With Clopidogrel
19 March 2012
Background: The reasons that decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) might alter the clinical efficacy of clopidogrel are poorly understood. Study Design: In this study, we sought to evaluate wheth...
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Clotilde Muller,
Sophie Caillard,
Laurence Jesel,
Soraya El Ghannudi,
Patrick Ohlmann,
Erik Sauleau,
Thierry Hannedouche,
Christian Gachet,
Bruno Moulin,
Olivier Morel
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777-785
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Clinicopathologic Correlations in Multiple Myeloma: A Case Series of 190 Patients With Kidney Biopsies
13 March 2012
Background: Renal involvement is common in multiple myeloma. In this study, we examined kidney biopsy findings in patients with multiple myeloma and correlated them with their clinical renal and hemat...
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Samih H. Nasr,
Anthony M. Valeri,
Sanjeev Sethi,
Mary E. Fidler,
Lynn D. Cornell,
Morie A. Gertz,
Martha Lacy,
Angela Dispenzieri,
S. Vincent Rajkumar,
Robert A. Kyle,
Nelson Leung
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786-794
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GFR and Cardiovascular Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry
26 March 2012
Background: Despite strong evidence linking decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) to worse outcomes, the impact of GFR on mortality and morbidity in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI...
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Eun Hui Bae,
Sang Yup Lim,
Kyung Hoon Cho,
Joon Seok Choi,
Chang Seong Kim,
Jeong Woo Park,
Seong Kwon Ma,
Myung Ho Jeong,
Soo Wan Kim
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795-802
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| Hypertension and Acid-Base/Electrolyte Disorders |
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Dietary Amino Acids and Blood Pressure: A Cohort Study of Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
02 March 2012
Background: Dietary protein has been variably reported to either lower or raise blood pressure. The purpose of this study was to determine whether intakes of specific amino acids differentially associ...
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Katherine R. Tuttle,
Joan E. Milton,
Diane P. Packard,
Lynn A. Shuler,
Robert A. Short
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803-809
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Regional Citrate Versus Heparin Anticoagulation for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
09 January 2012
Background: Anticoagulation of the extracorporeal circuit is required in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Heparin is the classic choice for anticoagulation, although it may increase the ri...
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Mei-Yi Wu,
Yung-Ho Hsu,
Chyi-Huey Bai,
Yuh-Feng Lin,
Chih-Hsiung Wu,
Ka-Wai Tam
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810-818
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Survival in Patients Treated by Long-term Dialysis Compared With the General Population
24 February 2012
Background: Relative survival, a methodology previously used in epidemiologic studies of cancer, compares the observed survival of a patient cohort with expected survival derived from general populati...
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Maurizio Nordio,
Aurelio Limido,
Umberto Maggiore,
Michele Nichelatti,
Maurizio Postorino,
Giuseppe Quintaliani,
Italian Dialysis and Transplantation Registry
et al.
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819-828
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GFR at Initiation of Dialysis and Mortality in CKD: A Meta-analysis
02 April 2012
Background: The proportion of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) initiating dialysis therapy at a higher glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has increased during the past decade. Recent ...
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Paweena Susantitaphong,
Sarah Altamimi,
Motaz Ashkar,
Ethan M. Balk,
Vianda S. Stel,
Seth Wright,
Bertrand L. Jaber
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829-840
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Age and the Associations of Living Donor and Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys With Kidney Transplant Outcomes
10 February 2012
Background: Recent studies show a survival advantage with kidney transplant in elderly patients compared with those on dialysis therapy. Study Design: In our present study, we examined and compared th...
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Miklos Z. Molnar,
Elani Streja,
Csaba P. Kovesdy,
Anuja Shah,
Edmund Huang,
Suphamai Bunnapradist,
Mahesh Krishnan,
Joel D. Kopple,
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
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841-848
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Center-Level Factors and Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
27 February 2012
Background: On average, African Americans attain living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) at decreased rates compared with their non–African American counterparts. However, center-level variations i...
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Erin C. Hall,
Nathan T. James,
Jacqueline M. Garonzik Wang,
Jonathan C. Berger,
Robert A. Montgomery,
Nabil N. Dagher,
Niraj M. Desai,
Dorry L. Segev
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849-857
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Management of Chronic Pain in a Patient With Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Sequential Celiac Plexus Blockade, Radiofrequency Ablation, and Spinal Cord Stimulation
24 February 2012
Chronic pain frequently is associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and is a significant cause of morbidity. The classic approach to treat pain in patients with this disease starts...
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Nathaniel Walsh,
Jose E. Sarria
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858-861
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Comparison of Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Perfusion Defects During Stress Induced by Hemodialysis Versus Adenosine
26 March 2012
The cardiac stress imposed by hemodialysis may differ from that induced by pharmacologic agents used for myocardial perfusion imaging-based stress testing. With repetitive intradialytic [13N]ammonia p...
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Solmaz Assa,
Judith J. Dasselaar,
Riemer H.J.A. Slart,
Paul E. de Jong,
Adriaan A. Voors,
René A. Tio,
Casper F.M. Franssen
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862-864
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| Narrative Review |
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Risk Stratification of Patients With IgA Nephropathy
12 April 2012
In this review, we summarize recent advances in the risk stratification of patients with immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy. Several clinical variables have consistent and independent associations wit...
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Sean J. Barbour,
Heather N. Reich
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865-873
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| In Practice |
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Hepatorenal Syndrome: A Severe, but Treatable, Cause of Kidney Failure in Cirrhosis
06 April 2012
Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a unique type of kidney failure that occurs in advanced cirrhosis. It is characterized by functional impairment of the kidneys due to vasoconstriction of the renal arteri...
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Cláudia Fagundes,
Pere Ginès
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874-885
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| Kidney Biopsy Teaching Case |
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Adenovirus-Induced Interstitial Nephritis Following Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
12 March 2012
We present a case of a 27-year-old man who received an unrelated donor umbilical cord blood transplant for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. His postsurgery course was complicated by acute kidney injury, ...
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Mira Keddis,
Nelson Leung,
Sandra Herrmann,
Ziad El-Zoghby,
Sanjeev Sethi
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886-890
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Stroke Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis
Power et al confirm that hemodialysis patients are at extraordinarily high risk of stroke, and we agree that large-scale randomized trials, particularly of blood pressure control, are a priority. Anot...
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William G. Herrington,
David A. Lewis
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In Reply to ‘Stroke Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis’
We thank Drs Herrington and Lewis for their comments and agree regarding the lack of a coherent evidence base to guide thromboembolic stroke prophylaxis. In our study, 12% of patients with a baseline ...
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Albert Power,
Neill Duncan
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891-892
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Kidney Disease Education One Year After the Medicare Improvement of Patients and Providers Act: A Survey of US Nephrology Practices
01 April 2012
The past 20 years witnessed a 67% increase in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4 (glomerular filtration rate of 15-30 mL/min/1.73 m2). Patient knowledge of CKD increases the incide...
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Kim Zuber,
Jane Davis,
Dana V. Rizk
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892-894
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Erratum Regarding Charytan et al, “Trends in the Use and Outcomes of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Patients Undergoing Dialysis in the United States” [Am J Kidney Dis 2011; 58:409-417]
13 April 2012
In the article entitled “Trends in the Use and Outcomes of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Patients Undergoing Dialysis in the United States” (Charytan et al, American Journal of Kidney Dis...
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July Highlights
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This Month in AJKD
See Wu et al, pages 810-818; and Tolwani and Wille, pages 745-747.
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