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December Highlights
DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
QUIZ PAGE Polyuria, Proximal Muscle Weakness, Bone Pain, and Photophobia in an Adult Rapur Ram, Gudithi Swarnalatha, Pamidi Nageswar Reddy, Neela Prasad, and Kaligotla Venkata Dakshinamurty
IN THE LITERATURE Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients: The Role of Antihypertensive Medications Dana C. Miskulin and Philip G. Zager
Is Choice of Antihypertensive Agent Important in Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Hypertensive Patients? Jula K. Inrig and Robert D. Toto
MASSRY LECTURE Clinical Transplantation Tolerance: A Myth No More, But. . . Jamil Azzi and Mohamed H. Sayegh
ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS Pathogenesis and Treatment of Kidney Disease Accuracy of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in Diagnosis and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Michael Haase, Rinaldo Bellomo, Prasad Devarajan, Peter Schlattmann, Anja Haase-Fielitz, and the NGAL Meta-analysis Investigator Group
Serum Cystatin C for Prediction of Dialysis Requirement or Death in Acute Kidney Injury: A Comparative Study Mary C. Perianayagam, Victor F. Seabra, Hocine Tighiouart, Orfeas Liangos, and Bertrand L. Jaber
Subclinical Tubular Injury in HIV-Infected Individuals on Antiretroviral Therapy: A Cross-sectional Analysis Andrew M. Hall, Simon G. Edwards, Marta Lapsley, John O. Connolly, Kreesan Chetty, Stephen O’Farrell, Robert J. Unwin, and Ian G. Williams
Obesity and Change in Estimated GFR Among Older Adults Ian H. de Boer, Ronit Katz, Linda F. Fried, Joachim H. Ix, Jose Luchsinger, Mark J. Sarnak, Michael G. Shlipak, David S. Siscovick, and Bryan Kestenbaum Continued
Highlights, Continued
Effect of a Low vs Moderate Protein Diet on Progression of CKD: Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial Bruno Cianciaruso, Andrea Pota, Vincenzo Bellizzi, Daniela Di Giuseppe, Lucia Di Micco, Roberto Minutolo, Antonio Pisani, Massimo Sabbatini, and Pietro Ravani
Dialysis Association of Soluble Endotoxin Receptor CD14 and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis Dominic S.C. Raj, Vallabh O. Shah, Mehdi Rambod, Csaba P. Kovesdy, and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Soluble CD14 Levels, Interleukin 6, and Mortality Among Prevalent Hemodialysis Patients Dominic S.C. Raj, Juan J. Carrero, Vallabh O. Shah, Abdul R. Qureshi, Peter Barany, Olof Heimburger, Bengt Lindholm, Jennet Ferguson, Pope L. Moseley, and Peter Stenvinkel
Computerized Decision Support for EPO Dosing in Hemodialysis Patients Dana C. Miskulin, Daniel E. Weiner, Hocine Tighiouart, Vladimir Ladik, Karen Servilla, Philip G. Zager, Alice Martin, H.K. Johnson, and Klemens B. Meyer, on behalf of the Medical Directors of Dialysis Clinic, Inc
Ascorbic Acid for Anemia Management in Hemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Vinay Deved, Penelope Poyah, Matthew T. James, Marcello Tonelli, Braden J. Manns, Michael Walsh, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Association Between Achievement of Hemodialysis Quality of Care Indicators and Quality of Life Scores Eduardo Lacson Jr, Jianglin Xu, Shu-Fang Lin, Sandie Guerra Dean, J. Michael Lazarus, and Raymond Hakim
Phosphate Removal With Several Thrice-Weekly Dialysis Methods in Overweight Hemodialysis Patients Marcello Tonelli, Wenjie Wang, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Anita Lloyd, and Braden Manns, on behalf of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network
CASE REPORTS Concurrent and Discrete Clinicopathologic Presentations of Wegener Granulomatosis and Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease Stephen Clyne, Candice Frederick, Frederick Arndt, Agnes B. Fogo, and Julia Lewis
Acute Kidney Injury During Warfarin Therapy Associated With Obstructive Tubular Red Blood Cell Casts: A Report of 9 Cases Sergey V. Brodsky, Anjali Satoskar, Jun Chen, Gyongyi Nadasdy, Jeremiah W. Eagen, Mirza Hamirani, Lee Hebert, Edward Calomeni, and Tibor Nadasdy
Treatment of Pregabalin Toxicity by Hemodialysis in a Patient With Kidney Failure Lawrence Yoo, Daniel Matalon, Robert S. Hoffman, and David S. Goldfarb Continued
Highlights, Continued
NARRATIVE REVIEW Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Prevalence, Prognosis, and Evidence-Based Management Greg A. Knoll
WORLD KIDNEY FORUM Organ Trafficking: Global Solutions for a Global Problem Tazeen H. Jafar
ACID-BASE AND ELECTROLYTE TEACHING CASE Gentamicin-Induced Bartter-like Syndrome Ying-Shou Chen, Hua-Chang Fang, Kang-Ru Chou, Po-Tsang Lee, Chih-Yang Hsu, Wei-Cheih Huang, Hsiao-Min Chung, and Chien-Liang Chen
KIDNEY BIOPSY TEACHING CASE Young Man With Kidney Failure and Hemorrhagic Interstitial Nephritis Anja Große Lordemann, Brian Hjelle, Dirk Theegarten, Florian Grabellus, Kurt Werner Schmid, Peter F. Hoyer, Udo Vester, and Jan U. Becker
IMAGING TEACHING CASE Transplant Renal Vein Thrombosis: Role of Preoperative and Intraoperative Doppler Sonography Piotr Sadej, Rick I. Feld, and Adam Frank
CORE CURRICULUM IN NEPHROLOGY Home Hemodialysis, Daily Hemodialysis, and Nocturnal Hemodialysis: Core Curriculum 2009 Jeffrey Perl and Christopher T. Chan
AJKD ELECTRONIC PAGES (Available online only at www.ajkd.org) CASE REPORT Linezolid-Associated Acute Interstitial Nephritis and Drug Rash With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome Se´bastien Savard, Simon Desmeules, Julie Riopel, and Mohsen Agharazii
QUIZ PAGE Polyuria, Proximal Muscle Weakness, Bone Pain, and Photophobia in an Adult Rapur Ram, Gudithi Swarnalatha, Pamidi Nageswar Reddy, Neela Prasad, and Kaligotla Venkata Dakshinamurty
IN THE LITERATURE Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients: The Role of Antihypertensive Medications Dana C. Miskulin and Philip G. Zager
Is Choice of Antihypertensive Agent Important in Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Hypertensive Patients? Jula K. Inrig and Robert D. Toto
MASSRY LECTURE Clinical Transplantation Tolerance: A Myth No More, But. . . Jamil Azzi and Mohamed H. Sayegh
ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS Pathogenesis and Treatment of Kidney Disease Accuracy of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in Diagnosis and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Michael Haase, Rinaldo Bellomo, Prasad Devarajan, Peter Schlattmann, Anja Haase-Fielitz, and the NGAL Meta-analysis Investigator Group
Serum Cystatin C for Prediction of Dialysis Requirement or Death in Acute Kidney Injury: A Comparative Study Mary C. Perianayagam, Victor F. Seabra, Hocine Tighiouart, Orfeas Liangos, and Bertrand L. Jaber
Subclinical Tubular Injury in HIV-Infected Individuals on Antiretroviral Therapy: A Cross-sectional Analysis Andrew M. Hall, Simon G. Edwards, Marta Lapsley, John O. Connolly, Kreesan Chetty, Stephen O’Farrell, Robert J. Unwin, and Ian G. Williams
Obesity and Change in Estimated GFR Among Older Adults Ian H. de Boer, Ronit Katz, Linda F. Fried, Joachim H. Ix, Jose Luchsinger, Mark J. Sarnak, Michael G. Shlipak, David S. Siscovick, and Bryan Kestenbaum Continued
Highlights, Continued
Effect of a Low vs Moderate Protein Diet on Progression of CKD: Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial Bruno Cianciaruso, Andrea Pota, Vincenzo Bellizzi, Daniela Di Giuseppe, Lucia Di Micco, Roberto Minutolo, Antonio Pisani, Massimo Sabbatini, and Pietro Ravani
Dialysis Association of Soluble Endotoxin Receptor CD14 and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis Dominic S.C. Raj, Vallabh O. Shah, Mehdi Rambod, Csaba P. Kovesdy, and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Soluble CD14 Levels, Interleukin 6, and Mortality Among Prevalent Hemodialysis Patients Dominic S.C. Raj, Juan J. Carrero, Vallabh O. Shah, Abdul R. Qureshi, Peter Barany, Olof Heimburger, Bengt Lindholm, Jennet Ferguson, Pope L. Moseley, and Peter Stenvinkel
Computerized Decision Support for EPO Dosing in Hemodialysis Patients Dana C. Miskulin, Daniel E. Weiner, Hocine Tighiouart, Vladimir Ladik, Karen Servilla, Philip G. Zager, Alice Martin, H.K. Johnson, and Klemens B. Meyer, on behalf of the Medical Directors of Dialysis Clinic, Inc
Ascorbic Acid for Anemia Management in Hemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Vinay Deved, Penelope Poyah, Matthew T. James, Marcello Tonelli, Braden J. Manns, Michael Walsh, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Association Between Achievement of Hemodialysis Quality of Care Indicators and Quality of Life Scores Eduardo Lacson Jr, Jianglin Xu, Shu-Fang Lin, Sandie Guerra Dean, J. Michael Lazarus, and Raymond Hakim
Phosphate Removal With Several Thrice-Weekly Dialysis Methods in Overweight Hemodialysis Patients Marcello Tonelli, Wenjie Wang, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Anita Lloyd, and Braden Manns, on behalf of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network
CASE REPORTS Concurrent and Discrete Clinicopathologic Presentations of Wegener Granulomatosis and Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease Stephen Clyne, Candice Frederick, Frederick Arndt, Agnes B. Fogo, and Julia Lewis
Acute Kidney Injury During Warfarin Therapy Associated With Obstructive Tubular Red Blood Cell Casts: A Report of 9 Cases Sergey V. Brodsky, Anjali Satoskar, Jun Chen, Gyongyi Nadasdy, Jeremiah W. Eagen, Mirza Hamirani, Lee Hebert, Edward Calomeni, and Tibor Nadasdy
Treatment of Pregabalin Toxicity by Hemodialysis in a Patient With Kidney Failure Lawrence Yoo, Daniel Matalon, Robert S. Hoffman, and David S. Goldfarb Continued
Highlights, Continued
NARRATIVE REVIEW Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Prevalence, Prognosis, and Evidence-Based Management Greg A. Knoll
WORLD KIDNEY FORUM Organ Trafficking: Global Solutions for a Global Problem Tazeen H. Jafar
ACID-BASE AND ELECTROLYTE TEACHING CASE Gentamicin-Induced Bartter-like Syndrome Ying-Shou Chen, Hua-Chang Fang, Kang-Ru Chou, Po-Tsang Lee, Chih-Yang Hsu, Wei-Cheih Huang, Hsiao-Min Chung, and Chien-Liang Chen
KIDNEY BIOPSY TEACHING CASE Young Man With Kidney Failure and Hemorrhagic Interstitial Nephritis Anja Große Lordemann, Brian Hjelle, Dirk Theegarten, Florian Grabellus, Kurt Werner Schmid, Peter F. Hoyer, Udo Vester, and Jan U. Becker
IMAGING TEACHING CASE Transplant Renal Vein Thrombosis: Role of Preoperative and Intraoperative Doppler Sonography Piotr Sadej, Rick I. Feld, and Adam Frank
CORE CURRICULUM IN NEPHROLOGY Home Hemodialysis, Daily Hemodialysis, and Nocturnal Hemodialysis: Core Curriculum 2009 Jeffrey Perl and Christopher T. Chan
AJKD ELECTRONIC PAGES (Available online only at www.ajkd.org) CASE REPORT Linezolid-Associated Acute Interstitial Nephritis and Drug Rash With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome Se´bastien Savard, Simon Desmeules, Julie Riopel, and Mohsen Agharazii