Selected Abstracts
Clinical Nephrology
Reduced circulatory volume/sepsis/hepatorenal
c 
Is the administration of dopamine associated with adverse outcomes in
acute renal failure?
c
The role of loop diuretics in acute renal failure? A double-
blind, randomised controlled trial
Cyclosporine, ARF in transplant patients
c
Thyroid hormone for treatment of acute tubular necrosis in
renal allografts: a prospective, randomized trial
Embolic disease
c
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis due to cholesterol atheroembolic
disease: Clinicopathologic correlations
Acute glomerulonephritis/RPGN
c
Effect of initial histology and plasmapheresis treatment on
prognosis in RPGN: results of the German prospective randomized
multicenter study
c
Superantigen-related glomerulonephritis and vasculitis due to MRSA
infection
Acute interstitial nephritis/NSAID
c
Renal gallium scintigraphy helps decision-making in acute renal
failure
Radiocontrast media
c
Effect of hemodialysis after contrast media application in
adults with renal insufficiency
Post surgical
c
Acute renal failure following cardiac surgery
Urinary tract obstruction
c
Distinctive effects between obstructive and non-obstructive
pyelocaliectasis by duplex-Doppler ultrasonography
Infections (other than hepatitis, peritonitis)
c
Outcome of HIV-infected patients on hemodialysis
Hereditary polycystic disease
c
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease patients are at risk for
recurrent intracranial aneurysms
c
Rate of loss of renal function in hypertensive and normotensive
autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease patients
Hyperkalemia
c
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in standard dose causes
hyperkalemia
c
Hyporeninemia is associated with erythropoietin deficiency in
type I diabetic patients
c
Examination for the thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter as a
candidate gene in Gordon's syndrome
Renal biopsy techniques, tips, complications
c
Bleeding time does not predict bleeding complications post
renal biopsy
c
Timing of complications in percutaneous renal biopsy: what is
the optimal period of observation?
Diabetes
c
Effect of nondihydropyridine calcium antagonists on progression of
nephropathy from non-insulin dependent diabetics: a five year
follow-up study
c
The ACE gene polymorphism in patients with diabetic nephropathy
c
Short-term comparison of ACE inhibition vs. calcium channel blockade
in African Americans with type II diabetic nephropathy
c
Long-term effect of captopril on kidney function in normotensive
insulin-dependent diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy
c
Correlates of diabetic and non-diabetic renal disease in NIDDM
c
Smoking -- a major predictor of nephropathy in newly diagnosed type
II diabetes
c
Kidney/pancreas transplant versus kidney transplant alone
c
Efficacy of captopril in normotensive diabetic patients with
microalbuminuria - 8 years follow up
c
Progression of overt diabetic nephropathy: Role of metabolic control
c
Glomerular structure in long term type II diabetes with and
without microalbuminuria
c
Cyclosporine nephrotoxicity in insulin-dependent diabetic
patients: an eight year follow up
c
Renal production of TGF-beta is increased in diabetic patients
c
Progression of diabetic nephropathy and the insertion/deletion
polymorphismof the ACE gene
Focal, collapsing, fibrillary GN
c
The impact of plasmapheresis on recurrent focal glomerular
sclerosis in renal allografts
c
Results of a 6 month randomized control trial of cyclosporine versus
placebo in adults with steroid-resistant, idiopathic, focal segmental
glomerulosclerosis
c
Glomerular number in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and
minimal change nephrotic syndrome
IgA Nephropathy
c
The deletion polymorphism in the ACE gene is a risk factor for the
progression to renal failure independent of the M235T polymorphism in
the angiotensinogen gene
c
A family history of hypertension is associated to
nephrosclerosis and predicts the future onset of hypertension in
patients with IgA nephropathy
Hepatitis-associated nephropathy
c
Infection with hepatitis C virus increases the risk of de novo
glomerulonephritis in renal transplant recipients
c
Serological and virological profiles in renal transplant
candidates
c
Liver histology in renal transplant patients after more than 10
years of HCV infection
c
Localization of HCV in renal tissue of HCV-infected patients with
cryoglobulinemic mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis: an immuno-
histochemical study
c
Glomerular disease in HIV-infected patients with hepatitis C
virus
HIV-associated nephropathy
c
Clinicopathologic evaluation of prednisone treatment or patients with
HIV nephropathy
c
Response to early and prolonged inhibition of angiotensin converting
enzyme in HIV-associated nephropathy
c
HIV/AIDS as a cause of renal failure
c
Contribution of globulins to plasma oncotic pressure and the
presence of edema in HIV patients with proteinuria
c
Cryoglobulinemia in HIV-infected patients with renal disease
c
Captopril increases renal survival in patients with HIV
nephropathy
c
Absence of edema in HIV-infected patients with ESRD
c
Prednisone ameliorates the progression on HIV-associated
nephropathy
c
Decreasing incidence of severe acute renal failure in patients with
HIV infection
c
Renal disease prevalence and risk factors among HIV-infected
inner city residents
c
Are we missing an epidemic of HIV-associated nephropathy?
Lupus nephritis
c
Renal lesions in drug induced lupus syndromes
Membranous GN
c
Changing incidence of idiopathic glomerular diseases in adults
c
Therapy of membranous glomerulonephritis with nephrotic syndrome. Five
year follow-up of a prospective, randomized study
c
Urinary C5b-9 in early and advanced renal insufficiency in
membranous nephropathy
Vasculitis (Wegener's PAN, etc.)
c
Assessing the severity of renal disease in systemic vasculitis: how to
the histopathologic data predict renal outcome?
c
Prevention of relapses in systemic vasculitis
c
ANCA-associated vasculitis and renal involvement: preliminary results
of a prospective randomized study comparing daily oral versus monthly I.V.
cyclophosphamide application
c
Humanized monoclonal antibody therapy for Wegener's
granulomatosis
c
Prevention of relapses of Wegener's granulomatosis by treatment with
co-trimoxazole. A placebo controlled trial.
c
Outcome of children with ANCA positive glomerulonephritis
Renal Stones: Diagnosis
c
Primary hyperoxaluria types I and II: clinical and lithogenic features
Renal Stones: Etiology
c
Decreased bone formation in idiopathic hypercalciuric calcium stone
formers explains reduced bone density
c
A prospective study of dietary and supplemental calcium and the risk
of kidney stones in women
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