Selected Abstracts
This review was prepared by Drs. Carlo Basile, Bruno Cianciaruso, Loreto Gesualdo, and Carmine
Zoccali. Dr. Carmine Zoccali acted as coordinator.
Hypertension
Kidney in hypertension
h 
Diuretic efficacy of low dose atrial natriuretic peptide (ANF)
in CRF
h
The role of chemokines and cytokines in the initiation and progression
of hypertensive nephrosclerosis
Endocrine hypertension
h
High concentrations of interleukin 1 beta in patients with
essential hypertension before any drug therapy: a pilot preliminary
study
Women
h
Pre-eclampsia: A pathogenetic role for nitric oxide synthase
Dialysis, Chronic Renal Failure
Dialyzers
d
Thermal energy flow and body temperature as a parameter of
biocompatibility during hemodialysis in ESRD
d
Randomized trial on the effect of different membranes and dialysis
technologies
Complications (acute)
d
Critical role of the extracorporeal blood temperature in the
hemodynamic response during hemofiltration
Cardiovascular/Hypertension
d
Endothelin-1 generation and endothelin-1 mediated basal vascular tone
is decreased in chronic renal failure
d
Endothelin-1 and reflex circulatory control in dialysis patients
GI/Liver, Hepatitis
d
Intestinal absorptive function and plasma levels of anorexigenic
substances in peritoneal dialysis patients. Their relationship with
malnutrition
Joint disease, beta-2 microglobulin
d
A new approach to the detection of dialysis related amyloidosis with
99m Tc aprotinin
d
Beta-2-microglobulin modified with advanced glycation end
products enhances osteoclast-induced bone resorption: Role in the
pathogenesis of dialysis-related amyloidosis
d
Selective extracorporeal removal of beta-2-microglobulin with
adsorbent column in dialysis related amyloidosis: multicenter study
d
3-deoxyglucosone accumulating in uremic serum modified beta-2-
microglobulin with age as observed in dialysis related amyloidosis
Bone disease/aluminum
d
Renagel-TM, a calcium and alluminium-free phosphate binder lowers
serum phosphorus in haemodialysis patients
d
Bone strontium levels are increased in dialysis patients with
osteomalacia
d
Nodular parathyroid hyperplasia is refractory to medical treatments
Infections (other than hepatitis, peritonitis)
d
Monocyte apoptosis in chronic hemodialysis patients
Outcomes (Morbidity, Mortality)
d
Are inflammatory markers predictive of mortality in
hemodialysis?
Rehabilitation, exercise
d
Effect of exercise training on muscle atrophy in hemodialysis patients
Complications of PD
d
Therapeutic effect of newly-developed antifibrotic agent pirfenidon
compbined with home parenteral nutrition on sclerosing encapsulated
peritonitis
Progression
d
ACE and angiotensin genotype influence progression of primary
renal disease
Clinical Nephrology
Embolic disease
c
A growing cause of iatrogenic renal failure: cholesterol crystal
embolisation. A series of 50 patients at one institution
Hereditary polycystic disease
c
Novel mutation and polymorphism in the PKD1 gene of a polycystic
kidney disease family
Pathogenesis, complications, RVT
c
Proteinuria induces apoptosis in cultured tubular cells
c
Oral sodium bicarbonate suppresses renal tubular peptide catabolism,
ammoniagenesis and reduces renal tubular injury in renal patients
Mechanisms of renal injury
c
Tubular MCP-1 production, a mechanism for proteinuria-induced
interstitial inflammation
c
Monocyte chemotactic peptide-1 (MCP-1) expression in IgA
nephropathy: a pathogenetic role in interstitital monocytes recruitment
c
alpha-smooth muscle actin and PDGF-beta receptor expression in human
IgA nephropathy: potential markers of tubulo-interstitial cell
activation
c
TGF-beta and endothelin-1 expression in IgA glomerulonephritis
correlates with the progression of renal damage
c
Angiotensin II triggers monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 MCP-
1 transforming growth factor (TGF-B1) and matrix protein gene expresion
in mesangal cells and interstitial renal fibroblast
Cryoglobylonemia not due to hepatitis
c
Cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis: in situ hybridization for
HCV in renal tissue
Hereditary hematuria/proteinuria
c
Familial occurence of lipoprotein glomerulopathy
Membranous GN
c
Actuarial survival and associated malignancy in membranous
nephropathy: a registry linkage study
Transplantation
c
Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA genome in liver biopsies of
renal transplants
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