OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS
QUIZ PAGE When Things Are Not as They Seem Aswani Alavala, Elizabeth Ulliman, Mazda Shirazi, and Harold M. Szerlip
IN THE LITERATURE On Peginesatide and Anemia Treatment in CKD Patrick S. Parfrey, Geoff Warden, and Brendan J. Barrett
SPECIAL ARTICLE The Initial Impact of Medicare’s New Prospective Payment System for Kidney Dialysis Richard A. Hirth, Marc N. Turenne, John R.C. Wheeler, Tammie A. Nahra, Kathryn K. Sleeman, Wei Zhang, and Joseph A. Messana
ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS Pathogenesis and Treatment of Kidney Disease Association of Serum Bicarbonate With Risk of Renal and Cardiovascular Outcomes in CKD: A Report From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Mirela Dobre, Wei Yang, Jing Chen, Paul Drawz, L. Lee Hamm, Edward Horwitz, Thomas Hostetter, Bernard Jaar, Claudia M. Lora, Lisa Nessel, Akinlolu Ojo, Julia Scialla, Susan Steigerwalt, Valerie Teal, Myles Wolf, and Mahboob Rahman, on behalf of the CRIC Investigators
Long-term Kidney Disease Outcomes in Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis: A Case Series of 27 Patients Vincent Javaugue, Alexandre Karras, Franc¸ois Glowacki, Brigitte McGregor, Corinne Lacombe, Jean-Michel Goujon, Ste´phanie Ragot, Pierre Aucouturier, Guy Touchard, and Frank Bridoux
CKD and Cardiovascular Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: Interactions With Age, Sex, and Race Xuan Hui, Kunihiro Matsushita, Yingying Sang, Shoshana H. Ballew, Tibor Fu¨löp, and Josef Coresh
Continued
Highlights, Continued
Prognostic Importance of Serum Alkaline Phosphatase in CKD Stages 3-4 in a Clinical Population Jonathan J. Taliercio, Jesse D. Schold, James F. Simon, Susana Arrigain, Anne Tang, Georges Saab, Joseph V. Nally Jr, and Sankar D. Navaneethan
Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents in Patients With Decreased GFR: A Meta-analysis Zhi Jian Wang, Kishore J. Harjai, Chetan Shenoy, Fei Gao, Dong Mei Shi, Yu Yang Liu, Ying Xin Zhao, and Yu Jie Zhou
Influence of Urine Creatinine Concentrations on the Relation of Albumin-Creatinine Ratio With Cardiovascular Disease Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Caitlin E. Carter, Ronit Katz, Holly Kramer, Ian H. de Boer, Bryan R. Kestenbaum, Carmen A. Peralta, David Siscovick, Mark J. Sarnak, Andrew S. Levey, Lesley A.S. Inker, Matthew A. Allison, Michael H. Criqui, Michael G. Shlipak, and Joachim H. Ix
Hypertension and Acid-Base/Electrolyte Disorders Out-of-Hospital Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors and Hypomagnesemia at Hospital Admission: A Nested Case-Control Study Ioannis Koulouridis, Mansour Alfayez, Hocine Tighiouart, Nicolaos E. Madias, David M. Kent, Jessica K. Paulus, and Bertrand L. Jaber
Dialysis Association of Dialysate Bicarbonate Concentration With Mortality in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) Francesca Tentori, Angelo Karaboyas, Bruce M. Robinson, Hal Morgenstern, ˙ Jinyao Zhang, Ananda Sen, T. Alp Ikizler, Hugh Rayner, Rachel B. Fissell, Raymond Vanholder, Tadashi Tomo, and Friedrich K. Port
Trends in Hip Fracture Rates in US Hemodialysis Patients, 1993-2010 Thomas J. Arneson, Shuling Li, Jiannong Liu, Ryan D. Kilpatrick, Britt B. Newsome, and Wendy L. St. Peter
Hyponatremia, Mineral Metabolism, and Mortality in Incident Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Cohort Study Sagar U. Nigwekar, Julia Wenger, Ravi Thadhani, and Ishir Bhan
Outcomes of Patients Receiving Maintenance Dialysis Admitted Over Weekends Ankit Sakhuja, Jesse D. Schold, Gagan Kumar, Aaron Dall, Puneet Sood, and Sankar D. Navaneethan
Sevelamer Versus Calcium Carbonate in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: Results of an Open-Label, 24-Month Randomized Clinical Trial Biagio Di Iorio, Donald Molony, Cynthia Bell, Emanuele Cucciniello, Vincenzo Bellizzi, Domenico Russo, and Antonio Bellasi, on behalf of the INDEPENDENT Study Investigators
Variability of Predialytic, Intradialytic, and Postdialytic Blood Pressures in the Course of a Week: A Study of Dutch and US Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients Johanna Kuipers, Len A. Usvyat, Jurjen K. Oosterhuis, Judith J. Dasselaar, Paul E. de Jong, Ralf Westerhuis, Jeffrey J. Sands, Yuedong Wang, Peter Kotanko, and Casper F.M. Franssen
Efficacy and Safety of Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2b and Ribavirin Combination Therapy Versus Pegylated Interferon Monotherapy in Hemodialysis Patients: A Comparison of 2 Sequentially Treated Cohorts Po-Lin Tseng, Te-Chuan Chen, Yu-Shu Chien, Chao-Hung Hung, Yi-Hao Yen, Kuo-Chin Chang, Ming-Chao Tsai, Ming-Tsung Lin, Chien-Te Lee, Chien-Heng Shen, and Tsung-Hui Hu
CASE REPORTS Acute Kidney Injury During Therapy With an Antisense Oligonucleotide Directed Against PCSK9 Eveline P. van Poelgeest, Reinout M. Swart, Michiel G.H. Betjes, Matthijs Moerland, Jan J. Weening, Yann Tessier, Michael R. Hodges, Arthur A. Levin, and Jacobus Burggraaf
Babesiosis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury With Prominent Urinary Macrophages Randy L. Luciano, Gilbert Moeckel, Matthew Palmer, and Mark A. Perazella
Cystic Kidney Disease in a Patient With Systemic Toxicity From Long-term D-Penicillamine Use Farrukh M. Koraishy, Robert A. Cohen, Gary M. Israel, and Neera K. Dahl
NARRATIVE REVIEW Bone Alkaline Phosphatase in CKD–Mineral Bone Disorder Sunita Sardiwal, Per Magnusson, David J.A. Goldsmith, and Edmund J. Lamb
IN TRANSLATION Current Status and Practical Use of Effluent Biomarkers in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Deirisa Lopes Barreto and Raymond T. Krediet
KIDNEY BIOPSY TEACHING CASE AA Amyloidosis Associated With Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Abhijeet Saha, Yogiraj Chopra, Jason D. Theis, Julie A. Vrana, and Sanjeev Sethi
IMAGING TEACHING CASE Renovascular Hypertension Associated With Pseudoaneurysm Following Blunt Trauma Eric Judd, Mark E. Lockhart, and Dana V. Rizk
Continued
Highlights, Continued
CORRESPONDENCE Letters to the Editor Ingestion of Lanthanum Carbonate Tablets Alan Ali Moazzam and Sarinya Boongird
Minimal Change Disease and Lenalidomide Matthieu Jamme, Pierre Galichon, and Alexandre Hertig
Research Letter Diabetes and Lifetime Risk of ESRD in High-Risk Remote-Dwelling Australian Aboriginal People: A 20-Year Cohort Study Zhiqiang Wang and Wendy E. Hoy