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July | ||
Review Course: Laragh's lessons in pathophysiology and clinical pearls for treating hypertension | Am J Hypertens | |
Excluding pulmonary embolism at the bedside without diagnostic imaging: Using a simple clinical model and D-dimer | Ann Intern Med | |
Ineffective secondary prevention in survivors of cardiovascular events in the US population | Arch Int Med | |
Relation between insufficient response to antihypertensive treatment and poor compliance with treatment: A prospective case-control study | Br Med J | |
A score for predicting the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based on individual patient data from randomized controlled trials | Br Med J | |
C-reactive protein, insulin resistance, central obesity, and coronary heart disease risk in Indian Asians from the United Kingdom compares with European whites | Circulation | |
Effect of lipid lowering by simvastatin on human atherosclerotic lesions: A longitudinal study by high-resolution, noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging | Circulation | |
Short- and Long-term black tea consumption reverses endothelial dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease | Circulation | |
C-reactive protein is an independent predictor of increase in early carotid atherosclerosis | Circulation | |
Abciximab suppresses the rise in levels of circulating inflammatory markers after percutaneous coronary revascularization | Circulation | |
Simvastatin induces regression of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis and improves cardiac function in a transgenic rabbit model of human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Circulation | |
Prognostic significance of endothelial dysfunction in hypertensive patients | Circulation | |
Cerebral protection with filter devices during carotid artery stenting | Circulation | |
Impact of viral and bacterial infectious burden on long-term prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease | Circulation | |
Transepithelial sodium absorption is increased in people of African origin | Hypertension | |
6-18-f-Fluorodopamine positron emission tomographic (PET scanning for diagnostic localization of phemochromocytoma | Hypertension | |
Initiation of hormone replacement therapy after acute myocardial infarction is associated with more cardiac events during follow-up | J Am Coll Cardiol | |
Effect of statin therapy on C-reactive protein levels | J Am Med Assoc | |
C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus | J Am Med Assoc | |
Long-term effects of arterial stenting on kidney function for patients with ostial atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis and renal insufficiency | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Remission and regression in the nephropathy of type 1 diabetes when blood pressure is controlled aggressively | Kidney Int | |
Full text: Monogenic hypertension: Lessons from the genome | Kidney Int | |
Long-term beneficial effect of ACE inhibition on diabetic nephropathy in normotensive type 1 diabetic patients | Kidney Int | |
Apolipoprotein E4 and coronary heart disease in middle-aged men who smoke: a prospective study | Lancet | |
Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease | N Engl J Med | |
Reduction of left ventricular mass by lisinopril and nifedipine in hypertensive renal transplant recipients: A PRDB Study | Transplantation | |
August | ||
Review: Ongoing trials of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition: What they can tell us | Am J Hypertens | |
Primary aldosteronism: Factors associated with normalization of blood pressure after surgery | Ann Intern Med | |
Hormone replacement therapy and longitudinal changes in blood pressure in postmenopausal women | Ann Intern Med | |
Dietary patterns and risk of coronary heart disease in women | Arch Int Med | |
Review: Long-term pharmacotherapy of obesity 2000: A review of efficacy and safety | Arch Int Med | |
Better psychological functioning and higher socioeconomic status may largely explain the apparent health benefits of wine | Arch Int Med | |
Antioxidant supplements block the response of HDL to simvastatin- niacin therapy in patients with coronary artery disease and low HDL | Arterioscl Thromb Vasc Biol | |
Improving endothelial vasomotor function | Br Med J | |
Risk of macular degeneration in users of statins: Cross sectional study | Br Med J | |
Mortality and smoking in Hong Kong: Case-control study of all adult deaths in 1998 | Br Med J | |
Impact of smoking on angiographic restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention | Circulation | |
Effect of aging on prognostic significance of ambulatory systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressure in essential hypertension | Circulation | |
Decreased coagulability has no clinically relevant effect on atherogenesis | Circulation | |
Postchallenge hyperglycemia and mortality in a national sample of U.S. adults | Diabetes Care | |
Diet and exercise dramatically delay type 2 diabetes mellitus: Diabetes medication, metformin, also effective | HHS News | |
Raised urinary glucocorticoid and adrenal androgen precursors in the urin of young hypertensive patients: possible partial glucocorticoid resistance | Heart | |
Iron supplementation inhibits cough associated with ACE inhibitors | Hypertension | |
Development of left ventricular hypertrophy in adults with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by cardiac myosin-binding protein C gene mutations | J Am Coll Cardiol | |
Risk of cardiovascular events associated with selective COX-2 inhibitors | J Am Med Assoc | |
Cost-effectiveness of vitamin therapy to lower plasma homocysteine levels for the prevention of coronary heart disease: Effect of grain fortification and beyond | J Am Med Assoc | |
Effects of physical activity counseling in primary care: A randomized controlled trial | J Am Med Assoc | |
Efficacy and safety of tenecteplase in combination with enoxaparin, abciximab, or unfractionated heparin: the ASSENT-3 randomized trial in acute myocardial infarction | Lancet | |
Prevalence of left-ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in the Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study: A population based study | Lancet | |
Relation between drug treatment and cancer in hypertension: The Swedish Trial in Old Patients with Hypertension 2: A PRCT | Lancet | |
Effects of pretreament with clopidogrel and aspirin followed by long- term therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: PCI- CURE Study | Lancet | |
Cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart Program: A cohort study | Lancet | |
Effects of clopidogrel in addition to aspirin in patients with acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation | N Engl J Med | |
Prognostic importance of elevated jugular venous pressure and a third heart sound in patients with heart failure | N Engl J Med | |
Characteristics of patients with uncontrolled hypertension in the United States | N Engl J Med | |
September | ||
Diagnostic tests for renal artery stenosis in patients suspected of having renovascular hypertension: A meta-analysis | Ann Intern Med | |
A prospective study of asymptomatic carriers of Factor V Leiden mutation to determine the incidence of venous thromboembolism | Ann Intern Med | |
Oral contraceptive use and hormone replacement therapy are associated with microalbuminuria | Arch Int Med | |
Drug interactions with oral hypoglycemic drugs | Austr Prescr | |
Randomized controlled trial of an interactive multimedia decision aid on hormone replacement therapy in primary care | Br Med J | |
Oxidative stress and platelet activation in homozygous homocystinuria | Circulation | |
Effect of once-daily angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and calcium channel blockade-based antihypertensive treatment regimens on LVH and diastolic filling in hypertension | Circulation | |
Smoking cessation strategies for the 21st century | Circulation | |
Point mutation in the stalk of angiotensin-converting enzyme causes a dramatic increase in serum angiotensin-converting enzyme but no cardiovascular disease | Circulation | |
Alterations of cardiac structure in patients with isolated office, ambulatory, or home hypertension: Data from the PAMELA Study | Circulation | |
Coronary heart disease prediction from lipoprotein cholesterol levels, triglycerides, lipoprotein(a), apolipoproteins A-I and B, and HDL density subfractions | Circulation | |
Treatment satisfaction with inhaled insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus | Diabetes Care | |
Advanced glycation end products in nondiabetic patients with coronary artery disease | Diabetes Care | |
Overweight and sympathetic overactivity in Black Americans | Hypertension | |
Blood pressure and inflammation in apparently healthy men | Hypertension | |
Birth weight influences blood pressure values and variability in children and adolescents | Hypertension | |
Aspirin use and all-cause mortality among patients being evaluated for known or suspected coronary artery disease | J Am Med Assoc | |
The continuing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in the United States | J Am Med Assoc | |
Long-term weight loss with sibutramine: A randomized, controlled trial | J Am Med Assoc | |
Renal vascular function in hypercholesterolemia is preserved by chronic antioxidant function | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Prediction of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in elderly people from one low serum thyrotropin result: a 10-year cohort study | Lancet | |
Effect of levodopa in combination with physiotherapy on functional motor recovery after stroke: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study | Lancet | |
Trial of invasive vs. medical therapy in elderly patients with chronic symptomatic coronary artery disease (TIME_: A randomized trial | Lancet | |
Diet, lifestyle and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women | N Engl J Med | |
Systolic blood pressure response to exercise stress test and risk of stroke | Stroke |
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August | ||
Quantitation of dialysis: A historical perspective | Seminars Dial | |
July | ||
A preceding exchange with polyglucose versus glucose solution modifies peritoneal equilibration test results | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Recreational drug use: A neglected risk factor for end-stage renal disease | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Long-term outcomes of revascularization for peripheral vascular disease in end-stage renal disease patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Hepatitis C screening strategies in hemodialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Nonreferral and nonacceptance to dialysis by primary care physicians and nephrologists in Canada and the United States | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Residual renal function and mortality risk in hemodialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Significant association between the progression of coronary artery calcification and dyslipidemia in patients on chronic hemodialysis | Am J Kidney Dis | |
A crossover study of gabapentin in treatment of restless legs syndrome among dialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Noninvasive stool antigen assay can effectively screen Helicobacter pylori infection and assess success of eradication therapy in hemodialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and progression of nondiabetic renal diseases: A meta-analysis of patient-level data | Ann Intern Med | |
Diabetes-induced accelerated atherosclerosis in swine | Diabetes | |
Kidney disease and arthritis in a cohort of workers exposed to silica | Epidemiology | |
Prevalence and clinical correlates of coronary artery disease among new dialysis patients in the United States: A Cross-sectional study | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Cardiac natriuretic peptides are related to left ventricular mass and function and predict mortality in dialysis patients | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Vascular access for hemodialysis: An in-depth review | J Nephrol | |
Cardiac arrest and sudden death in dialysis units | Kidney Int | |
Risk factors and mortality associated with calciphylaxis in end-stage renal disease | Kidney Int | |
Noninvasive transcutaneous determination of access blood flow rate | Kidney Int | |
Differential survival after coronary revascularization procedures among patients with renal insufficiency | Kidney Int | |
Simplified citrate anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy | Kidney Int | |
Linezolid resistance in a clinical isolate of Staphylococci aureus | Lancet | |
Long-term CAPD patients are volume expanded and display more severe left ventricular hypertrophy than hemodialysis patients | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Methylene blue, a nitric oxide inhibitor, prevents hemodialysis hypotension | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Autonomic insufficiency as a factor contributing to dialysis- induced hypotension | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
The role of iron status markers in predicting response to intravenous iron in hemodialysis patients on maintenance erythropoietin | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
A novel technique to demonstrate disturbed appetite profiles in hemodialysis patients | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Effect of L-carnitine supplementation in hemodialysis patients | Nephron | |
August | ||
Short daily hemodialysis: Blood pressure control and left ventricular mass reduction in hypertensive hemodialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Excess mortality in women with hospital-acquired bloodstream infection | Am J Med | |
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus associated with cephalosporins in patients with renal failure | Am J Med | |
Pathophysiologic determinants of third heart sounds: A pospective clinical and Doppler echocardiographic study | Am J Med | |
Effectiveness of the diabetic foot risk classification system of the international working group on the diabetic foot | Diabetes Care | |
Opportunities for improving the care of patients with chronic renal insufficiency: Current practice patterns | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
High adenosine and deoxyadenosine concentrations in mononuclear cells of hemodialyzed patients | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Screening for subclinical stenosis in native arteriovenous fistulae | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Unintentional platelet removal by plasmapheresis | J Clin Apheres | |
Consequences of late referral of patients with end-stage renal disease | J Intern Med | |
Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (Alteplase) for restoration of flow in occluded central venous access devices: A DBPCT - The COOL Trial | J Vasc Interven Radiol | |
Novel erythropoiesis stimulating protein for treatment of anemia in chronic renal insufficiency | Kidney Int | |
Sustained low efficiency dialysis for critically ill patients requiring renal replacement therapy | Kidney Int | |
Clinical performance characteristics of hemodialysis graft monitoring | Kidney Int | |
Erythropoietin-mediated neuroprotection involves cross-talk between Jak2 and NF-kappaB signalling cascades | Nature | |
September | ||
Timing of nephrologist referral and arteriovenous access use: The CHOICE Study | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Gender modulates responsiveness to recombinant erythropoeitin | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Increases in mass transfer area coefficients and urea Kt/V with increasing dialysate flow rate are greater for high-flux dialyzers | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Relationship between effective ionic dialysance and in vivo urea clearance during hemodialysis | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Cocaine use, hypertension, and end-stage renal disease | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Hemodialysis access placement with preoperative noninvasive vascular mapping: Comparison between patients with and without diabetes | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Successful use of Tesio catheters in pediatric patients receiving chronic hemodialysis | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Needlestick injuries in primary care | Austr Prescr | |
Mechanism of syncope in patients with isolated syncope and in patients with tilt-positive syncope | Circulation | |
Arterial wave reflections and survival in end-stage renal disease | Hypertension | |
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a rural American Indian community | J Am Med Assoc | |
Basal muscle amino acid kinetics and protein synthesis in healhty young and older men | J Am Med Assoc | |
Thermal effects and blood pressure response during postdilution hemodiafiltration and hemodialysis: The effect of amount of replacement fluid and dialysate temperature | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Association of inflammation and malnutrition with cardiac valve calcification in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Vascular access blood flow monitoring reduces access morbidity and costs | Kidney Int | |
A randomized trial of continuous versus intermittent dialysis for acute renal failure | Kidney Int | |
Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomized trial | Lancet | |
Effect of losartan on renal and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and nephropathy | N Engl J Med | |
Renoprotective effect of the angiotensin-receptor antagonist irbesartan in patients with nephropathy due to type 2 diabetes | N Engl J Med | |
Measurement of blood urea concentration during dialysis is not an accurate method to determine equilibrated post-dialysis concentration | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Technical survival of CAPD catheters: comparison between percutaneous and conventional surgical placement techniques | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Effects of ultrapure dialysis fluid on nutritional status and inflammatory parameters | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Erectile dysfunction and the effects of sildenafil treatment in patients on hemodialysis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis | Nephrol Dial Transplant |
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July | ||
Coadministration of losartan and enalapril exerts additive antiproteinuric effect in IgA nephropathy | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Lesson of the week: Unsuspected nephrogenic diabetes insipidus | Br Med J | |
Protein C anticoagulant pathway and its role in controlling microvascular thrombosis and inflammation | Crit Care Med | |
Increased prevalence of microthromboses in retinal capillaries of diabetic individuals | Diabetes | |
Pharmacologic inhibition of diabetic retinopathy: aminoguanidine and aspirin | Diabetes | |
Analgesic use and renal function in men | J Am Med Assoc | |
Effect of ibandronate on bone loss and renal function after kidney transplantation | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody - associated glomerulonephritis in children | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Renal monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease: The disease spectrum | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Frequency of renal phosphate leak among patients with calcium nephrolithiasis | Kidney Int | |
Amyloid load and clinical outcome in AA amyloidosis in relation to circulating concentration of serum amyloid A protein | Lancet | |
Yellow fever vaccine: Is it really safe? | Lancet | |
Three months versus one year of oral anticoagulant therapy for idiopathic deep venous thrombosis | N Engl J Med | |
Safety and efficaty of recombinant human galactosidase A replacement therapy in Fabry's disease | N Engl J Med | |
Neointimal and tubulointerstitial infiltration by recipient mesenchymal cells in chronic renal allograft rejection | N Engl J Med | |
Better microvascular function on long-term treatment with lisinopril than with nifedipine in renal transplant recipients | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Removal of contrast media by different extracorporeal treatments | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Review: The complement system in renal diseases | Nephron | |
Outcome of cadaveric renal transplant patients treated for 10 years with cyclosporine | Transplantation | |
Promising early outcomes with a novel complete steroid avoidance immunosuppression protocol in pediatric renal transplantation | Transplantation | |
Dose optimization of mycophenolate mofetil when administered with a low dose of tacrolimus in cadaveric renal transplant recipients | Transplantation | |
August | ||
Cystatin C is not more sensitive than creatinine for detecting early renal impairment in patients with diabetes | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Ethylene-glycol mediated tubular injury: Identification of critical metabolites and injury pathways | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Follow-up of patients with epidemic poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Combination therapy with pulse cyclophosphamide plus pulse methylprednisolone improves long-term renal outcome without adding toxicity in patients with lupus nephritis | Ann Intern Med | |
Escherichia coli O157 and Salmonella infections associated with sprouts in California, 1996-1998 | Ann Intern Med | |
Patient survival after human albumin administration | Ann Intern Med | |
Review: Lesson of the week: Causes of hematuria in adult polycystic kidney disease | Br Med J | |
Plasma clearance of iodine contrast media as a measure of glomerular filtration rate in critically ill patients | Crit Care Med | |
Use of dopamine in acute renal failure: A meta-analysis | Crit Care Med | |
Mycophenolate mofetil does not modify the incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV disease) after kidney transplantation but prevents CMV-induced chronic graft dysfunction | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
A controlled trial comparing two doses of cyclosporine in conjunction with mycophenolate mofetil and corticosteroids | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Biochemical profile of idiopathic uric acid nephrolithiasis | Kidney Int | |
FULL TEXT: Drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis | Kidney Int | |
Diagnosis of nut-cracker phenomenon using renal Doppler ultrasound in orthostatic proteinuria | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
ANCA titers, even of IgG subclasses, and soluble CD14 fail to predict relapses in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
September | ||
Recurrent IgA nephropathy in renal transplant allografts | Am J Kidney Dis | |
Subclinical renal injury induced by transient cyclosporine exposure is associated with salt-sensitive hypertension | Am J Transplant | |
Rapid discontinuation of steroids in living donor kidney transplantation: A pilot study | Am J Transplant | |
Premature osteonecrosis and sirolimus treatment in renal transplantation | Br Med J | |
Fortnightly review: Beneficial effects of potassium | Br Med J | |
Reversible hypophosphatemia during moderate hypothermia for brain-injured patients | Crit Care Med | |
Combined treatment with mycophenolate mofetil and an agiotensin II receptor antagonist fully protects from chronic rejection in a rat model of renal allograft | J Am Soc Nephrol | |
Reduction of oxaluria after an oral course of lactic acid bacteria at high concentration | Kidney Int | |
Prolonged cold preservation augments vascular injury independent of renal transplant immunogenicity and function | Kidney Int | |
Evidence of a PTH-independent humoral mechanism in post-transplant hypophosphatemia and phosphaturia | Kidney Int | |
FULL TEXT: An appraisal of antiretroviral drugs in hemodialysis | Kidney Int | |
A family-based study of metabolic phenotypes in calcium urolithiasis | Kidney Int | |
Radical nephrectomy plus interferon-alfa-based immunotherapy compared with interferon alfa alone in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomised trial | Lancet | |
Effect of sympathetic reinnervation on cardiac performanct after heart transplantation | N Engl J Med | |
Helical CT angiography in evaluation of live kidney donors | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Clinical features and long-term outcome of obesity-associated focal segmental glomeruslosclerosis | Nephrol Dial Transplant | |
Low tacrolimus concentrations and increased risk of early acute rejection in adult renal transplantation | Nephrol Dial Transplant |