Summer 1997

Articles

Hypertension

h Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer: pooled data from clinical trials (Jul 97 BMJ)
h Randomixed, double blind, multicentre comparison of hydrochlorothiazide, atenolol, nitrendipine, and enalapril in hypertensive treatment: results of the HANE study (Jul 97 BMJ)
h Report of the Expert Committee on the diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus (Jul 97 DC)
h Neurovascular compression of the rostral ventrolateral medulla related to essential hypertension (Jul 97 HYP)
h Lisinopril vs. hydrochlorothiazide in obese hypertensive patients: a multicenter placebo-controlled trial (TROPHY Study Group) (Jul 97 HYP)
h Safety of nifedipine in patients with hypertension: a meta-analysis (Jul 97 HYP)
h Effect of beta-blockade on mortality in patients with heart failure: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (Jul 97 JACC)
h Chinese adults are less susceptible than white to age-related endothelial dysfunction (Jul 97 JACC)
h Thromboxane antagonism and cough induced by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (Jul 97 LANCET)
h Trial of calcium to prevent preeclampsia (Jul 97 NEJM)
h Plasma homocysteine levels and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (Jul 97 NEJM)
h Influence of night-time blood pressure on left atrial size in uncomplicated arterial systemic hypertension (Aug 97 AJH)
h New onset hypertension after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: age related incidence and prediction by intrarenal resistive index (Aug 97 JUROL)
h Recurrent strokes in a 34-year-old man (Aug 97 LANCET)
h Randomised trial of roxithromycin in non-Q-wave coronary syndromes: ROXIS pilot study (Aug 97 LANCET)
h Systematic review of evidence on thrombolytic therapy for acute ischaemic stroke (Aug 97 LANCET)
h Evidence for circulating bufenolide in a volume-expanded patient (Aug 97 LANCET)
h Valvular heart disease associated with fenfluramine-phentermine (Aug 97 NEJM)
h Renal artery stenosis: evaluation with colour duplex ultrasonography (Aug 97 NDT)
h Treatment of childhood syndrome X (Aug 97 PED)
h ACE gene polymorphism as a risk factor for ischemic cerebrovascular disease (Sep 97 AIM)
h Update in cardiology (Sep 97 AIM)
h Differences in the effect of cigarette smoking on endothelial function in Chinese and white adults (Sep 97 AIM)
h Hormonal regulation of lipoprotein (a) levels: effects of estrogen replacement therapy on Lp(a) and acute phase reactants in postmenopausal women (Sep 97 ATVB)
h A common prothrombin variant (20210 G to A) increases the risk of myocardial infarction in young women (Sep 97 BLOOD)
h Effects of blood pressure control on progressive renal disease in blacks and whites. Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Group (Sep 97 HYP)
h Angiotensin II stimulates expression of the chemokine RANTES in rat glomerular endothelial cells (Sep 97 JCI)
h Double-blind randomised trial of modest salt restriction in older people (Sep 97 LANCET)
h Randomized double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension. The Syst- Eur Trial (Sep 97 LANCET)
h Clinical Alert: Periodic transfusions lower stroke risk in children with sickle cell anemia (Sep 97 NHLBI)

Dialysis, Chronic Renal Failure

d Clinical outcome relative to the dose of dialysis is not what you think: the fallacy of the mean (Jul 97 AJKD)
d Blood volume changes during three different profiles of dialysate sodium variation with similar intradialytic sodium balances in chronic hemodialyzed patients (Jul 97 AJKD)
d More on the inhibition of the urease reaction by boric acid (Jul 97 ACB)
d Protection from gentamicin ototoxicity by iron chelators in guinea pig in vivo (Jul 97 JPET)
d Reticulocyte hemoglobin content in the evaluation of iron status of hemodialysis patients (Jul 97 KI)
d Interim guidelines for prevention and control of Staphylococcal infection associated with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin (Jul 97 MMWR)
d Microcytic anemia mice have a mutation in Nramp2, a candidate iron transporter gene (Aug 97 NATGEN)
d Interferon treatment for hepatitis C in patients on hemodialysis (Jul 97 NDT)
d Assessment of nutritional status in CAPD patients: serum albumin is not a useful measure (Jul 97 NDT)
d Autonomic neuropathy predisposing to arrhythmias in hemodialysis patients (Aug 97 AJKD)
d Long-term performance and complications of the Tesio twin catheter system for hemodialysis access (Aug 97 AJKD)
d Catheter-related bacteremia and outcome of attempted catheter salvage in patients undergoing hemodialysis (Aug 97 AIM)
d Prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection by use of an antiseptic-impregnated catheter (Aug 97 AIM)
d Increasing numbers of AV fistulas for hemodialysis access (Aug 97 CN)
d Impaired delivery of hemodialysis prescriptions: an analysis of causes and an approach to evaluation (Aug 97 JASN)
d Impact of increasing dialysis volume on adequacy targets: a prospective study (Aug 97 JASN)
d Outcomes of single organism peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis: gram negatives vs. gram positives in the Network 9 Peritonitis Study (Aug 97 KI)
d Mutation (677 C to T) in the methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase gene aggravates hyperhomocystenemia in hemodialysis patients (Aug 97 KI)
d Dietary protein, urea nitrogen appearance and total nitrogen appearance in chronic renal failure and CAPD patients (Aug 97 KI)
d Randomised controlled study of the effect of parathyroid hormone on vertebral-bone mass and fracture incidence among postmenopausal women on oestrogen with osteoporosis (Aug 97 KI)
d Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin -- U.S. (Aug 97 MMWR)
d Initial subcutaneous embedding of the peritoneal dialysis catheter: a critical appraisal of this new implantation technique (Aug 97 NDT)
d Hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis: A comparison of adjusted mortality rates (Sep 97 AJKD)
d Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors on the progression of nondiabetic renal disease: a meta-analysis of randomized trials (Sep 97 AIM)
d Validation of a revised slow-stop flow recirculation method (Sep 97 KI)
d Effect of dietary protein restriction on nutritional status in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study (Sep 97 KI)
d Dialysis-related amyloidosis of the tongue in long-term hemodialysis patients (Sep 97 KI)
d Update: Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin -- United States, 1997 (Sep 97 MMWR)
d Staphylococcus aureus carriage in adult peritoneal dialysis patients and their spouses (Sep 97 PDI)
d Effect of dialysate modality and membrane transport characteristics on dialysate protein losses of patients on peritoneal dialysis (Sep 97 PDI)
d Oral vs. intraperitoneal application of clindamycin in tunnel infections: a prospective, randomized study in CAPD patients (Sep 97 PDI)
d 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 1-alpha hydroxylase and vitamin D synthesis (Sep 97 SCI)

Clinical Nephrology

c Race and creatinine excretion in chronic renal insufficiency (Jul 97 AJKD)
c Demonstration of the proliferation marker Ki-67 in renal biopsies: correlation to clinical findings (Jul 97 AJKD)
c Response to high dose interferon-alpha after failure of standard therapy in MPGN associated with hepatitis C virus infection (Jul 97 AJKD)
c Crystalluria and urinary tract abnormalities associated with indinavir (Jul 97 AIM)
c Serum hyaluronan levels follow disease activity in vasculitis (Jul 97 CN)
c Zafirlukast (Accolate) and Churg Strauss Syndrome (Jul 97 FDA)
c Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in HIV- associated nephropathy (Jul 97 JASN)
c Mutation in mitochondrial tRNA(Leu(UUR)) gene associated with progressive kidney disease (Jul 97 JASN)
c Enhanced collagen synthesis in cultured skin fibroblasts from insulin- dependent diabetic patients with nephropathy (Jul 97 JASN)
c Use of urine specific gravity to improve screening for albuminuria (Jul 97 KI)
c Aminoguanidine prolongs survival in strepotozotocin-induced diabetic rats (Aug 97 AJKD)
c End-stage renal failure from mushroom poisoning with Cortinarius Orellanus: Report of four cases and literature review (Aug 97 AJKD)
c Monitoring warfarin therapy in patients with lupus anticoagulants (Aug 97 AIM)
c Intracranial arterial dolichoectasia in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (Aug 97 JASN)
c Severe hepatitis in patients with AIDS and hemophilia B treated with indinavir (Aug 97 LANCET)
c Treatment of ANCA-associated systemic vasculitis: initiatives of the European Community Systemic Vasculitis Clinical Trials Study Group (ECSYSVASTRIAL) (Aug 97 MCP)
c Intermittent etidronate therapy to prevent corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis (Aug 97 NEJM)
c Autosomal dominant Alport syndrome linked to the type IV collagen (alpha)3 and (alpha)4 genes (COL4A3 and COL4A4) (Aug 97 NDT)
c CTLA4-Ig and anti-CD40 ligand prevent renal allograft rejection in primates (Aug 97 PNAS)
c Multicenter randomized trial comparing tacrolimus (FK506) and cyclosporine in the prevention of renal allograft rejection: a report of the European Tacrolimus MR Study Group (Aug 97 TRANSP)
c Combination therapy with interferon alpha and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in thalassaemic patients (Sep 97 BJH)
c Association of the angiotensin I converting enzyme gene deletion polymorphism with early onset of ESRD in PKD1 adult polycystic kidney disease (Sep 97 KI)
c Congenitally small kidneys with reflux as a common cause of nephropathy in boys (Sep 97 KI)
c Angiotensin II blockade decreases TGF-beta1 and matrix proteins in cyclosporine nephropathy (Sep 97 KI)
c A candidate gene for familial Mediterranean fever (Sep 97 NATGEN)
c Brief report. Autoantibodies against a kidney-liver protein associated with quinolone-induced acute interstitial nephritis or hepatitis (Sep 97 NDT)
c A large TSC2 and PKD1 gene deletion is associated with renal and extrarenal signs of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (Sep 97 NDT)
c Incomplete distal renal tubular acidosis coinherited with a mutation in the band (AE1) gene (Sep 97 NDT)
c Stabilization of glomerular filtration rate over 2 years in patients with diabetic nephropathy under intensified therapy regimens (Sep 97 NDT)
c Maintenance cyclosporin monotherapy after renal transplantation - clinical predictors of long-term outcome (Sep 97 NDT)
c Rapid screening assay for anti-GBM antibody and ANCAs: an important tool for the differential diagnosis of pulmonary renal syndromes (Sep 97 NDT)


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