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Longitudinal Analysis of Vascular Function and Biomarkers of Metabolic Bone Disorders before and after Renal Transplantation
Yilmaz MI, Sonmez A, Saglam M, Yaman H, Kilic S, Turker T, Unal HU, Gok M, Cetinkaya H, Eyileten T, Oguz Y, Caglar K, Vural A, Mallamaci F, Zoccali C.
Department of Nephrology, Gulhane School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Am J Nephrol. 2013 Jan 31;37(2):126-134. [Epub ahead of print]

Atrial fibrillation, atrioventricular blocks and bundle branch blocks in hemodialysis patients

Mandi? A, Tomi? M, Petrov B, Romi? Z.
Health Center Siroki Brijeg, Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Coll Antropol. 2012 Dec;36(4):1395-9.

Comparison of outcomes for veterans receiving dialysis care from VA and non-VA providers

Wang V, Maciejewski ML, Patel UD, Stechuchak KM, Hynes DM, Weinberger M.
Health Services Research and Development, Durham VA Medical Center,
Durham, NC, 27705, USA.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2013 Jan 18;13:26. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-26.

Validity of the coding for intensive care admission, mechanical ventilation, and acute dialysis in the Danish National Patient Registry: a short report

Blichert-Hansen L, Nielsson MS, Nielsen RB,
Christiansen CF, Nørgaard M.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Clin Epidemiol. 2013;5:9-12. doi: 10.2147/CLEP.S37763.
Epub 2013 Jan 11.

Peginesatide for Anemia in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Not Receiving Dialysis

Iain C. Macdougall, M.D., Robert Provenzano, M.D., Amit Sharma, M.D., Bruce S. Spinowitz, M.D., Rebecca J. Schmidt, D.O., Pablo E. Pergola, M.D., Ph.D., Raja I. Zabaneh, M.D., Sandra Tong-Starksen, M.D., Martha R. Mayo, Pharm.D., Hong Tang, M.S., Krishna R. Polu, M.D., Anne-Marie Duliege, M.D., and Steven Fishbane, M.D. for the PEARL Study Groups
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:320-332January 24, 2013DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1203166

Dialysate Calcium Concentration and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Hemodialysis Patients

CJASN CJN.10000912; published ahead of print January 31, 2013, doi:10.2215/CJN.10000912
Patrick H. Pun, John R. Horton, and John P. Middleton

Human embryonic stem cells differentiate into functional renal proximal tubular–like cells

Karthikeyan Narayanan, Karl M Schumacher, Farah Tasnim, Karthikeyan Kandasamy, Annegret Schumacher, Ming Ni, Shujun Gao, Began Gopalan,
Daniele Zink and Jackie Y Ying

Kidney International (6 February 2013) | doi:10.1038/ki.2012.442

Clinical profile and post-transplant anaemia in renal transplant recipients restarting dialysis after a failed graft: changing trends between 2001 and 2009

Manuel Arias, Domingo Hernández, Luis Guirado, Josep M. Campistol, Jaime A. Sánchez Plumed, Ernesto Gómez, Miguel A. Gentil, and Carlos de Santiago
Clin Kidney J first published online February 3, 2013 doi:10.1093/ckj/sfs181

Access to kidney transplantation: outcomes of the non-referred

Albugami MM, Panek R, Soroka S, Tennankore K, Kiberd BA.
Transplant Res. 2012 Dec 10;1(1):22. doi: 10.1186/2047-1440-1-22.
Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 5820 University Avenue,
Halifax, NS, B3H 1V8, Canada.

Novel views on new-onset diabetes after transplantation: development, prevention and treatment

Hecking M, Werzowa J, Haidinger M, Hörl WH, Pascual J, Budde K, Luan FL, Ojo A, de Vries AP, Porrini E, Pacini G, Port FK, Sharif A, Säemann MD; European-New-Onset Diabetes After Transplantation Working Group.
1Clinical Division of Nephrology & Dialysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Claudia Praehauser

Cohort study on the quality of oral anticoagulation therapy in chronic haemodialysis patients treated with phenprocoumon

Praehauser C, Grandjean R, Steiger J, Mayr M.
Medical Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, SWITZERLAND
Swiss Med Wkly. 2013 Jan 7;143:0. doi: 10.4414/smw.2013.13730.

Csaba P. Kovesdy MD FASN

Csaba P. Kovesdy, L. Darryl Quarles, Evan H. Lott, Jun Ling Lu, Jennie Z. Ma, Miklos Z. Molnar, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
American Journal of Kidney Diseases - 31 January 2013 (10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.12.012)

Plasma Sodium and Subclinical Left Atrial Enlargement in Chronic Kidney Disease

1Angela Yee-Moon Wang, MD, PhD, 1Ye Lu, PhD, 1Sharon Cheung, BSc, 2Iris Hiu-Shuen Chan, PhD, 3Christopher Wai-Kei Lam, PhD.

1Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2 Department of Chemical Pathology, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong. 3 Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print]

Edmund Huang, Chong Parke, Alireza Mehrnia, Mandana Kamgar, Phuong-Thu Pham, Gabriel Danovitch, and Suphamai Bunnapradist
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. first published online January 22, 2013 doi:10.1093/ndt/gfs585

Effect of Peripheral Vascular Disease on Kidney Allograft Outcomes: A Study of U.S. Renal Data System.
Brar A, Jindal RM, Elster EA, Tedla F, John D, Sumrani N, Salifu MO.
1 Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate School of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY. 2 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. 3 Address correspondence to: Rahul M. Jindal, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., Department of Transplantation, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, 8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20889.
Transplantation. 2013 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print]

Effects of angiotensin receptor blockade (ARB) on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with long-term haemodialysis: a randomized controlled trial

Kunitoshi Iseki, Hisatomi Arima, Kentaro Kohagura, Ichiro Komiya, Shinichiro Ueda, Kiyoyuki Tokuyama, Yoshiki Shiohira, Hajime Uehara, and Shigeki Toma
Effects of angiotensin receptor blockade (ARB) on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with long-term haemodialysis: a randomized controlled trial Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. first published online January 25, 2013 doi:10.1093/ndt/gfs590

Jason M. Misurac, MD

Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Are an Important Cause of Acute Kidney Injury in Children

Jason M. Misurac, MD, Chad A. Knoderer, PharmD, Jeffrey D. Leiser, MD, PhD, Corina Nailescu, MD, Amy C. Wilson, MD, and Sharon P. Andreoli, MD, appears in The Journal of Pediatrics (www.jpeds.com), DOI 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.11.069,

Frank J.M.F. Dor, MD, PhD

Jeff A. Lafranca, MD, PhD-candidate

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relation between body mass index and short-term donor outcome of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Kidney International , (23 January 2013) | doi:10.1038/ki.2012.485
Jeffrey A Lafranca, Sander M Hagen, Leonienke F C Dols, Lidia R Arends, Willem Weimar, Jan N M IJzermans and Frank J M F Dor

Gastrointestinal factors contribute to glucometabolic disturbances in nondiabetic patients with end-stage renal disease.

Idorn T, Knop FK, Jørgensen M, Holst JJ, Hornum M, Feldt-Rasmussen B.
Department of Nephrology, Rigshospitalet,

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kidney Int. 2013 Jan 16. doi: 10.1038/ki.2012.460. [Epub ahead of print]

Urinary Cystatin C and Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery
Jay L. Koyner, Amit X. Garg, Michael G. Shlipak, Uptal D. Patel, Kyaw Sint, Kwangik Hong, Prasad Devarajan, Charles L. Edelstein, Michael Zappitelli, Heather Thiessen-Philbrook, Chirag R. Parikh, Translational Research Investigating Biomarker Endpoints in AKI (TRIBE AKI) Consortium
American Journal of Kidney Diseases - 18 January 2013 (10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.12.006)

Dr John Pickering

Combining creatinine and volume kinetics identifies missed cases of acute kidney injury followng cardiac arrest.

John W Pickering, Azrina Md Ralib and Zoltan H Endre
Critical Care 2013, 17:R7 doi:10.1186/cc11931
Published: 17 January 2013

Chronic Kidney Disease is Associated with Increased Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis as Revealed by Multidetector Computed Tomographic Angiography
Sion K. Roy, MD, Albert Cespedes, MD, Dong Li, MD, Tae-young Choi, MD, and Matthew J. Budoff, MD
Tex Heart Inst J. 2012; 39(6): 811–816.
PMCID: PMC3528227

Social adaptability and substance abuse: Predictors of depression among hemodialysis patients?

Santos PR, Arcanjo FP.
BMC Nephrol. 2013 Jan 15;14(1):12. [Epub ahead of print]

Selecting renal replacement therapies: what do African American and non-African American patients and their families think others should know? A mixed methods study

DePasquale N, Ephraim PL, Ameling J, LewisBoy?r L, Crews DC, Greer RC, Rabb H, Powe NR et al.
 BMC Nephrology 2013, 14:9 (14 January 2013)

Electrocardiographic Assessment of Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Hemodialysis Patients

Keiko Nishi, Shouichi Fujimoto, Shuichi Hisanaga,
Osamu Ogawa, Kazuo Kitamura

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis
Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01137.x

Efficacy of cinacalcet with low-dose vitamin D in incident haemodialysis subjects with secondary hyperparathyroidism

Pablo Ureña-Torres, Ian Bridges, Cynthia Christiano, Serge H. Cournoyer, Kerry Cooper, Mourad Farouk, Nelson P. Kopyt, Mariano Rodriguez, Daniel Zehnder, and Adrian Covic

High serum bicarbonate level within the normal range prevents the progression of chronic kidney disease in elderly chronic kidney disease patients

Kanda E, Ai M, Yoshida M, Kuriyama R, Shiigai T.
Department of Nephrology, Tokyo Kyosai Hospital, Nakameguro 2-3-8, Meguroku, Tokyo, 153-8934, Japan. Tokyo
BMC Nephrol. 2013 Jan 9;14:4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2369-14-4.

Determinants of renal function at hospital discharge of patients treated with renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit.

Fortrie G, Stads S, de Geus HR, Groeneveld AB,
Zietse R, Betjes MG.
Department of Nephrology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Crit Care. 2012 Dec 19. pii: S0883-9441(12)00369-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2012.10.013. [Epub ahead of print]

How are patients managing with the costs of care for chronic kidney disease in Australia?

How are patients managing with the costs of care for chronic kidney disease in Australia?
Essue B, Wong G, Chapman J, Li Q and Jan S. A cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrology 2013, 14:5 doi:10.1186/1471-2369-14-5

N.D. Vaziri M.D., MACP

Exhaled breath and fecal volatile organic biomarkers of chronic kidney disease.

Meinardi S, Jin KB, Barletta B, Blake DR, Vaziri ND.
2012 Dec 26. doi:pii: S0304-4165(12)00352-2. 10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.12.006.
[Epub ahead of print]

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Role of Urea in Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction and Disruption of Epithelial Tight Junction in Chronic Kidney Disease.

Vaziri ND, Yuan J, Norris K.
Am J Nephrol. 2012 Dec 19;37(1):1-6. [Epub ahead of print]

Charuhas V Thakar, MD, FASN

Degree of Acute Kidney Injury before Dialysis Initiation and Hospital Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

Charuhas V. Thakar, Annette Christianson, Peter Almenoff, Ron Freyberg, and Marta L. Render, International Journal of Nephrology, vol. 2013, Article ID 827459, 7 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/827459

SALMAN WAHEED
MD, MPH

Combined Association of Creatinine, Albuminuria, and Cystatin C with All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular and Kidney Outcomes

Salman Waheed, Kunihiro Matsushita, Brad C. Astor#FFFFCC, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Christie Ballantyne, and Josef Coresh

CJASN CJN.04960512; published ahead of print December 20, 2012, doi:10.2215/CJN.04960512

Bisphenol A exposure is associated with low-grade urinary albumin excretion in children of the United States

Leonardo Trasande, Teresa M Attina and Howard Trachtman
Kidney Int advance online publication, January 9, 2013; doi:10.1038/ki.2012.422

Concurrent use of diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of acute kidney injury: nested case-control study

Lapi F ,Azoulay L ,Yin H ,Nessim SJ ,Suissa S.
BMJ 2013;346:e8525

The Role of Serum Magnesium and Calcium on the Association between Adiponectin Levels and All-Cause Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients

Anastasia Markaki, John Kyriazis, Kostas Stylianou, George A. Fragkiadakis, Kostas Perakis, Andrew N. Margioris, Emmanuel S. Ganotakis, Eugene Daphnis
Research Article | published 20 Dec 2012 | PLOS ONE
10.1371/journal.pone.0052350

Dr. Belinda Spoto, CNR-IBIM

Dr. Carmine Zoccali CNR-IBIM

The fat-mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) predicts mortality in CKD of various severity.

Belinda Spoto, Francesco Mattace-Raso, Eric Sijbrands, Francesca Mallamaci, Daniela Leonardis, Filippo Aucella, Alessandra Testa, Antonio Gesuete, Maria C. Sanguedolce, Graziella D'Arrigo, Rosa M. Parlongo, Anna Pisano, Claudia Torino, Giuseppe Enia, Giovanni Tripepi, Maurizio Postorino, and Carmine Zoccali

Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2012) 27(suppl 4): iv58-iv62 doi:10.1093/ndt/gfs550

Mononuclear Leukocyte Apoptosis and Inflammatory Markers in Patients with CKD

1Evangelia Dounousi, 1Elli Koliousi, 2Aikaterini Papagianni, 3Kyriakos Ioannou, 1Xanthi Zikou, 1Konstantinos Katopodis, 3Apostolos Kelesidis, 4Dimitrios Tsakiris, 1Kostas C. Siamopoulos

Departments of Nephrology of 1University Hospital of Ioannina, 2General Hospital of Thessaloniki “Hippokration”,  3General Hospital of Veria, and 4General Hospital of Thessaloniki “Papageorgiou”, Greece

Am J Nephrol. 2012;36(6):531-6.
doi: 10.1159/000345352. Epub 2012 Nov 29.

Marisa Battistella, BSc Phm, Pharm D, ACPR

Conversion from epoetin alfa to darbepoetin alfa: effects on patients' hemoglobin and costs to canadian dialysis centres.

Jordan J, Breckles J, Leung V, Hopkins M, Battistella M.
,BScPharm, is a Pharmacist Consultant with Toronto East General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.
Can J Hosp Pharm. 2012 Nov;65(6):443-

Douglas D. DeCarolis, PharmD

Enoxaparin Outcomes in Patients With Moderate Renal Impairment.

DeCarolis DD, Thorson JG, Clairmont MA, Leuthner AM, Rector TS, Johnson GJ. Enoxaparin Outcomes in Patients With Moderate Renal Impairment. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(22):1713-1718. doi:10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.369.

Obesity-related chronic kidney disease is associated with spleen-derived IL-10

Koro Gotoh, Megumi Inoue, Takayuki Masaki, Seiichi Chiba, Kentaro Shiraishi, Takanobu Shimasaki, Kazue Matsuoka, Hisae Ando, Kansuke Fujiwara, Naoya Fukunaga, Kohei Aoki, Tomoko Nawata, Isao Katsuragi, Tetsuya Kakuma, Masataka Seike, and Hironobu Yoshimatsu

Hypothyroidism and Mortality among Dialysis Patients. 
Rhee CM, Alexander EK, Bhan I, Brunelli SM.  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012 Dec 20. [Epub ahead of print]

Incident Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease
Nisha Bansal, Dongjie Fan, Chi-yuan Hsu, Juan D. Ordonez, Gregory M. Marcus, and Alan S. Go
Circulation. 2012;CIRCULATIONAHA.112.123992published online before print December 28 2012, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.123992

Enoxaparin Outcomes in Patients With Moderate Renal Impairment.
DeCarolis DD, Thorson JG, Clairmont MA, Leuthner AM, Rector TS, Johnson GJ. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(22):1713-1718. doi:10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.369.