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17th April 2008 Update

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	CKD detection and screening: creatinine-based GFR estimation
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	Stenotic kidneys and stenotic coronaries
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	G.B. Fogazzi cases - Part III
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	NephroQUEST press release














	What is Cosmos?


	Stenotic kidneys, stenotic coronaries and a new poll by Carmine Zoccali, Editor-in-Chief of NDT-Educational
Prof C. Zoccali Unità di Nefrologia, Dialisi, Trapianto e Ipertensione OO.RR and CNR Istituto di Biomedicina Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica e Fisiopatologia delle Malattie Renali e dell'Ipertensione Reggio Calabria, Italy

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	Renovascular disease imaging. The potential of new noninvasive methods: MR perfusion imaging		Renovascular disease screening in high-risk populations: interactions of cardiologist and nephrologist
Dr Philip Kalra Department of Renal Medicine Hope Hospital Salford, United Kingdom		Prof J. Mann Dept. of Nephrology and Hypertension Schwabing General Hospital LMU Munich, Germany

	Getting to the “heart of the matter” - combatting high cardiovascular risk in renovascular disease
Dr David J A Goldsmith Renal Unit Guy's Hospital London, United Kingdom


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		An album of urinary microscopy images in a clinical context Part III
Dr G.B. Fogazzi and Dr S. Verdesca Research Laboratory on Urine, Unità Operativa di Nefrologia Fondazione IRCCS, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena Milan, Italy
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	Carol A. Dahl and Tadataka Yamada
	Global health inequity: scientific challenges remain but can be solved
	J. Clin. Invest. 118(4): 1242-1243 (2008).
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	Kamal Rahmouni, Melissa A. Fath, Seongjin Seo, Daniel R. Thedens,
	Christopher J. Berry, Robert Weiss, Darryl Y. Nishimura and Val C. Sheffield
	Leptin resistance contributes to obesity and hypertension in mouse
	models of Bardet-Biedl syndrome
	J. Clin. Invest. 118(4): 1458-1467 (2008).
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	Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation selected articles:

	Guntram Schernthaner
	Kidney disease in diabetology: lessons from 2007
	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2008 23: 1112-1115
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	Sean M. Bagshaw, Carol George, Irina Dinu, and Rinaldo Bellomo
	A multi-centre evaluation of the RIFLE criteria for early
	acute kidney injury in critically ill patients
	NDT Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2008 23: 1203-1210
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	Andrew J. Palmer, William J. Valentine, Roland Chen, Nazanin Mehin,
	Sylvie Gabriel, Bruno Bregman, and Roger A. Rodby
	A health economic analysis of screening and optimal treatment
	of nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension
	in the USA
	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2008 23: 1216-1223
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	Joanne L. Carter, Shelagh E. O’Riordan, Gillian L. Eaglestone, Michael P. Delaney,
	and Edmund J. Lamb
	Chronic kidney disease prevalence in a UK residential care home population
	NDT Advance Access published on November 19, 2007
	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2008 23: 1257-1264
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	Rudolf P. Obermayr, Christian Temml, Maarten Knechtelsdorfer, Georg Gutjahr,
	Josef Kletzmayr, Susanne Heiss, Anton Ponholzer, Stephan Madersbacher, Rainer
	Oberbauer, and Renate Klauser-Braun
	Predictors of new-onset decline in kidney function in a general
	middle-european population
	NDT Advance Access published on November 26, 2007
	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2008 23: 1265-1273
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Alcohol consumption and the risk of end-stage renal disease among Chinese men.	KI 2008 Apr; 73(7): 870-6.
N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide as a predictor of cardiovascular disease and mortality in blacks with hypertensive kidney disease: the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK).	Circulation. 2008 Apr 1;117(13):1685-92.
Renal toxicity mediated by glucose degradation products in a rat model of advanced renal failure.	Eur J Clin Invest. 2008 May;38(5):296-305.
Association of serum adiponectin levels with all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients.	Intern Med. 2008;47(6):485-91.


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Impact of ethnicity and gender differences on angiographic coronary artery disease prevalence and in-hospital mortality in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry.	Circulation. 2008 Apr 8; 117(14): 1787-801
Telmisartan, ramipril, or both in patients at high risk for vascular events	NEJM 2008 Apr 10; 358(15): 1547-59
Kidney function and progression of carotid intima-media thickness in a community study.	AJKD 2008 Apr; 51(4): 584-93
Travel time to dialysis as a predictor of health-related quality of life, adherence, and mortality: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).	AJKD 2008 Apr; 51(4):641-50
Coronary calcium as a predictor of coronary events in four racial or ethnic groups.	NEJM 2008 Mar 27; 358(13):1336-45.
Rate of atherosclerotic plaque formation predicts cardiovascular events in ESRD	JASN 2008 Apr; 19(4): 757-63


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Ultrasound monitoring to detect access stenosis in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review.	AJKD 2008 Apr; 51(4): 630-40.
Obesity is not an obstacle for successful autogenous arteriovenous fistula creation in haemodialysis.	NDT 2008 Apr; 23(4): 1318-22.
Frequency and severity of acute pancreatitis in chronic dialysis patients.	NDT 2008 Apr; 23(4): 1401-5.
Patients with complex arrhythmias during and after haemodialysis suffer from different regimens of potassium removal.	NDT 2008 Apr; 23(4): 1415-21.
Impact of hemodialysis duration on the removal of uremic retention solutes.	KI 2008 Mar; 73(6): 765-70.
Achieving blood pressure targets during dialysis improves control but increases intradialytic hypotension.	KI 2008 Mar; 73(6): 759-64.
A new adjuvant improves the immune response to hepatitis B vaccine in hemodialysis patients.	KI 2008 Apr; 73(7): 856-62.
A comparison of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality, hospitalization, and morbidity in hemodialysis: a secondary analysis of the Dialysis Clinical Outcomes Revisited (DCOR) randomized trial using claims data.	AJKD 2008 Mar; 51(3): 445-54.


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Acute allergic-type reactions among patients undergoing hemodialysis--multiple states, 2007-2008.	MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008;57(5):124-125.


NephroQUEST project: Quality of Care in End-Stage Renal Disease: the Importance of Comparing “Apples with Apples”
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