Spring 1997

Articles


Hypertension

h Health effects of obstructive sleep apnea and the effectiveness of a continuous positive airways pressure: a systematic review of the research evidence (Apr 97 BMJ)
h End-stage renal disease in African-American and white men (Apr 97 JAMA)
h Health outcomes associated with antihypertensive therapies used as first-line agents (Apr 97 JAMA)
h Randomised study of the effect of ibopamine on survival in patients with advanced severe heart failure (Apr 97 LANCET)
h Effect of renal artery stenting on the progression of renovascular renal failure (Apr 97 LANCET)
h Inflammation, aspirin, and the risk of cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy men (Apr 97 NEJM)
h A clinical trial of the effects of dietary patterns on blood pressure (Apr 97 NEJM)
h Proposal of reference values for home blood pressure measurement: Prognostic criteria based on a prospective observation of the general population in Oshsama, Japan (May 97 AJH)
h Radiofrequency volumetric reduction of the tongue: a porcine pilot study for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (May 97 CHE)
h Kidney vascular damage and cocaine (May 97 CN)
h Contrasting effects of calcium channel blockade versus converting enzyme inhibition on proteinuria in African Americans with NIDDM nephropathy (May 97 JASN)
h Grapefruit juice increases felodipine oral availability in humans by decreasing intestinal CYP3A protein expression (May 97 JCI)
h The International Stroke Trial (IST): a randomised trial of aspirin, subcutaneous heparin, both, or neither among 19345 patients with acute ischaemic stroke (May 97 LANCET)
h Defective excitation-contraction coupling in experimental cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure (May 97 SCI)
h Evaluation of social status as a contributing factor to the stroke belt region of the United States (May 97 STROKE)
h Is hypertriglyceridemia a risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease?: A simple question with a complicated answer (Jun 97 AIM)
h 24-hour blood pressure monitoring to evaluate the effects of nifedipine in pre-eclampsia and in chronic hypertension in pregnancy (Jun 97 BJOG)
h Prevalence of undiagnosed NIDDM and impaired glucose tolerance in a cohort of older persons with hypertension (Jun 97 JAGS)
h Plasma homocysteine as a risk factor for vascular disease (Jun 97 JAMA)
h Randomised placebo-controlled trial of lisinopril in normotensive patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and normoalbuminuria or microalbuminuria (Jun 97 LANCET)
h Silent brain infarction on magnetic resonance imaging and neurologic abnormalities in community-dwelling older adults (Jun 97 STROKE)

Dialysis, Chronic Renal Failure

d High C-reactive protein is a strong predictor of resistance to erythropoietin in hemodialysis patients (Apr 97 AJKD)
d The importance of dietary calcium and phosphorus in the secondary hyperparathyroidism of patients with early chronic renal failure (Apr 97 AJKD)
d Effect of ketoconazole plus low-dose prednisone on progression of chronic renal failure (Apr 97 AJKD)
d End-stage renal disease among silica-exposed gold miners (Apr 97 JAMA)
d Bone health of adult hemodialysis patients is related to vitamin K status (Apr 97 KI)
d Are glycopeptide-resistant enterococci in animals a threat to human beings? (Apr 97 LANCET)
d Orthostatic hypoxaemia in dialysed adult polycystic kidney disease patients (Apr 97 NDT)
d Technical report: indwelling silicone femoral catheters: experience of three hemodialysis centres (Apr 97 NDT)
d Preliminary evidence for a role of apolipoprotein E alleles in identifying hemodialysis patients at high vascular risk (Apr 97 NDT)
d Left ventricular hypertrophy and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in chronic renal failure (Apr 97 NDT)
d Gynecologic and reproductive issues in women on dialysis (May 97 AJKD)
d A cost-effectiveness analysis of anemia screening before erythropoietin in patients with ESRD (May 97 AJKD)
d Determinants of albumin concentration in hemodialysis patients (May 97 AJKD)
d Simultaneous removal and replacement of infected peritoneal dialysis catheters (May 97 AJKD)
d Correction of acidosis in hemodialysis patients increases the sensitivity of the parathyroid glands to calcium (May 97 JASN)
d Subacute infusion of physiologic doses of parathyroid hormone raises blood pressure in humans (May 97 NDT)
d Hepatitis G virus infection in a haemodialysis unit: prevalence and clinical implications (May 97 NDT)
d Survival in long-term haemodialysis patients: results from the annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (May 97 NDT)
d Current status of renal replacement therapy in Japan: results of the annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (May 97 NDT)
d Sudden death in chronic dialysis patients (May 97 NDT)
d Aluminum neurotoxicity in preterm infants receiving intravenous feeding solutions (May 97 NEJM)
d Pharmacokinetics of oral glyburide in subjects with non-insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus and renal failure (Jun 97 AJKD)
d Prevention of bacterial endocarditis: Recommendations by the American Heart Association (Jun 97 JAMA)
d Hemodialyzer mass transfer-area coefficients for urea increase at high dialysate flow rates. The Hemodialysis (HEMO) Study (Jun 97 KI)
d Blood transfusion during heparin-free hemodialysis (Jun 97 KI)
d Splanchnic erythrocyte content decreases during hemodialysis: a new compensatory mechanism for hypovolemia (Jun 97 KI)
d Randomised placebo-controlled trial of effect of ramipril on decline in glomerular filtration rate and risk of terminal renal failure in proteinuric non-diabetic nephropathy (Jun 97 LANCET)
d Intradermal vs. intramuscular hepatitis B re-vaccination in non- responsive chronic dialysis patients: A prospective randomized study with cost-effectiveness evaluation (Jun 97 NDT)
d Technical report. Ultrasound-guided cannulation versus the landmark- guided technique for acute hemodialysis access (Jun 97 NDT)
d Comparison of lactate and bicarbonate buffered haemofiltration fluids: use in critically ill patients (Jun 97 NDT)

Clinical Nephrology

c The impact of renal transplantation on survival in hepatitis C- positive ESRD patients (Apr 97 AJKD)
c Nonacidotic proximal tubulopathy transmitted as autosomal dominant trait (Apr 97 AJKD)
c Comparison of dietary calcium with supplemental calcium and other nutrients as factors affecting the risk for kidney stones in women (Apr 97 AIM)
c Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura associated with ticlodipine therapy (Apr 97 JASN)
c A randomized study comparing three cyclosporine-based regimens in cadaveric renal transplantation (Apr 97 JASN)
c Cyclophosphamide therapy for lupus nephritis: poor renal survival in black Americans (Apr 97 KI)
c Spinal meningeal diverticula in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (Apr 97 LANCET)
c A trial of three regimens for primary amyloidosis: colchicine alone, melphalan and prednisone, and melphalan, prednisone, and colchicine (Apr 97 NEJM)
c Prevention of mucosal Escherichia coli infection by FimH- adhesin-based systemic vaccination (Apr 97 SCI)
c Pentoxifylline promotes replication of human cytomegalovirus in vivo and in vitro (May 97 BLOOD)
c Glycosaminoglycans delay the progression of nephropathy in NIDDM (May 97 DC)
c Acute hypertension as an adverse effect of pyrazinamide (May 97 JAMA)
c Isoform switching of type IV collagen is developmentally arrested in X-linked Alport Syndrome leading to increased susceptibility of renal basement membranes to endoproteolysis (May 97 JCI)
c Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism with magnetic resonance angiography (May 97 NEJM)
c Weekly CPC: Case 17-1997: A 67-year-old woman with vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and azotemia (May 97 NEJM)
c Histologic subclassification of IgA nephropathy: a clinicopathologic study of 244 cases (Jun 97 AJKD)
c Prevalence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in a large inception cohort of patients with connective tissue diseases (Jun 97 AIM)
c Predictors of mortality from kidney cancer in 332,547 men screened for the multiple risk factor intervention trial (Jun 97 CANCER)
c Polycystic kidney disease: an unrecognized emerging infectious disease? (Jun 97 EID)
c Pancreatorenal syndrome associated with combination antiretroviral therapy in HIV infection (Jun 97 LANCET)
c PKD1 interacts with PKD2 through a probable coiled-coil domain (Jun 97 NATGEN)
c Von Hippel-Lindau disease: an important differential diagnosis of polycystic kidney disease (Jun 97 NDT)
c Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection of bone marrow dendritic cells from multiple myeloma patients (Jun 97 SCI)


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