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Article Reviews/Hyperlinks by Date - Winter , 2001 |
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Article Reviews/Hyperlinks by Date - Winter , 2001 |
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January |
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Nonhypoglycemic effects of thiazolidinediones: Review | Ann Intern Med |
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Long-term weight loss and changes in blood pressure: Results of the Trials of Hypertension Prevention, Phase II | Ann Intern Med |
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Glycated hemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk) | Br Med J |
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The renaissance of C-reactive protein (Editorial Review) | Br Med J |
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Prophylactic treatment of migraine with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril: randomised placebo-controlled, crossover study | Br Med J |
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Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in circulating human monocytes is refractory to antibiotic treatment | Circulation |
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Immunomodulating therapy with intravenous immunoglobulin in patients with chronic heart failure | Circulation |
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Aldosterone production is activated in failing ventricle in humans | Circulation |
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Left ventricular hypertrophy with exercise and ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphism: A randomized controlled trial with losartan | Circulation |
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Effect of type 2 diabetes mellitus on left ventricular geometry and systolic function in hypertensive subjects | Circulation |
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The phytoestrogen genistein produces acute nitric-oxide dependent dilation of human forearm vasculature with similar potency to 17-beta- estradiol | Circulation |
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Low-dose aspirin and vitamin E in people at cardiovascular risk: a randomized trial in general practice | Lancet |
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The pathogenesis of acute pulmonary edema associated with hypertension | N Engl J Med |
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Effects on blood pressure of reduced dietary sodium and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet | N Engl J Med |
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February |
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Coffee consumption and serum lipids: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials | Am J Epidemiol |
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Inhaled human insulin treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus | Ann Intern Med |
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REVIEW: Recent advances in genetics, diagnosis, localization, and treatment of pheochromocytoma | Ann Intern Med |
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Prevalence of overweight and obese children between 1989 and 1998: population-based series of cross-sectional studies | Br Med J |
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Antiplatelet drugs for prevention of pre-eclampsia and its consequences: systematic review | Br Med J |
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Results of targeted anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy with etanercept (ENBREL) in patients with advanced heart failure | Circulation |
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Pravastatin treatment increases collagen content and decreases lipid content, inflammation, metalloproteinases, and cell death in human carotid plaques | Circulation |
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Chronic infections and the risk of carotid atherosclerosis | Circulation |
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Effects of ramipril and vitamin E on atherosclerosis: SECURE Study Results | Circulation |
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Antibodies to human heat shock protein 60 are associated with the presence and severity of coronary artery disease | Circulation |
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Hormone replacement therapy, prothrombotic mutations, and the risk of incident nonfatal myocardial infarction in postmenopausal women | J Am Med Assoc |
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Effect of aggressive versus conventional lipid lowering on atherosclerosis progression in familial hypercholesterolemia (ASAP): a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial | Lancet |
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Longitudinal assessment of neurocognitive function after coronary- artery bypass surgery | N Engl J Med |
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Use of Doppler ultrasonography to predict the outcome of therapy for renal artery stenosis | N Engl J Med |
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Variation in the progression of diabetic nephropathy according to racial origin | Nephrol Dial Transplant |
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March |
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ACC Press Release: Beta blocker reduces hospitalizations in patients with the most advances chronic heart failure | Am Coll Cardiol PR |
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ACC Press Release: Statin appears to reduce inflammatory markers in patients with cardiovascular risk factors | Am Coll Cardiol PR |
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ACC Press Release: New drug indication will provide major treatment advance for certain types of heart attack (Clopidogrel - CURE trial report) | Am Coll Cardiol PR |
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Effects of reduced sodium intake on hypertension control in older individuals | Arch Int Med |
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Are aneroid sphygmomanometers accurate in hospital and clinic settings? | Arch Int Med |
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Adverse drug effects, compliance, and initial doses of antihypertensive drugs recommended by the JNC vs. the Physicians' Desk Reference | Arch Int Med |
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High-normal serum creatinine concentration is a predictor of cardiovascular risk in essential hypertension | Arch Int Med |
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Randomized trial of folic acid supplementation and serum homocysteine levels | Arch Int Med |
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Full Text Review: Proinflammatory cytokines and heart disease | Blood Purif |
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Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension | Br Med J |
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Does the relation of blood pressure to coronary heart disease risk change with aging? The Framingham Heart Study | Circulation |
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Enhanced progression of early carotid atherosclerosis is related to Chlamydia pneumoniae (Taiwan Acute Repository) seropositivity | Circulation |
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Ticlodipine pretreatment before coronary stenting is associated with sustained decrease in adverse cardiac events | Circulation |
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Distribution of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the human arterial system and its relation to the local amount of atherosclerosis within an individual | Circulation |
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C-reactive protein- mediated low density lipoprotein uptake by macrophages: Implications for atherosclerosis | Circulation |
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Aspirin for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: safety and absolute benefit related to coronary risk derived from meta- analysis of randomized trials | Heart |
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Ascorbic acid status and subsequent diastolic and systolic blood pressure | Hypertension |
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Effect of smoking cessation on changes in blood pressure and incidence of hypertension | Hypertension |
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Hypothesis: beta-adrenergic receptor blockers and weight gain: A systematic analysis | Hypertension |
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Predominance of isolated systolic hypertension among middle-aged and elderly US hypertensives: Analysis based on NHANES III | Hypertension |
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Adverse cardiac effects of salt with fludrocortisone in hypertension | Hypertension |
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Relation of gemfibrozil treatment and lipid levels with major coronary events: VA-HIT: A randomized controlled trial | J Am Med Assoc |
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Renal perfusion in healthy African Americans | Kidney Int |
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Clinical reality of coronary prevention guidelines: a comparison of EUROASPIRE I and II in nine countries | Lancet |
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Effect of alcohol consumption on systemic markers of inflammation | Lancet |
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Relation between plasma ascorbic acid status and mortality in men and women in the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study | Lancet |
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Effect of fenofibrate on progression of coronary artery disease in diabetes: The Diabetes Atherosclerosis Intervention Study (DAIS) | Lancet |
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Urinary sodium excretion and cardiovascular mortality in Finland: A prospective study | Lancet |
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January |
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Staphylococcal peritonitis in CAPD: Colonization with identical strains at exit-site, nose and hands | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Preliminary observations of sildenafil treatment for erectile dysfunction in dialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Environmental lead exposure and progressive renal insufficiency | Arch Int Med |
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Effect of recolonization with interfering alpha streptococci on recurrences of acute and secondary otitis media in children: randomized placebo controlled trial | Br Med J |
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Clinical review: Chronic viral hepatitis | Br Med J |
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Lack of neointimal proliferation after implantation of sirolimus- coated stents in human coronary arteries | Circulation |
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HCFA posts on the web a comparative database of U.S. dialysis facilities with their achieved quality indicators | HCFA/Medicare |
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Interferon and ribavirin vs interferon alone in the re-treatment of chronic hepatitis C previously nonresponsive to interferon: A meta- analysis of randomized trials | J Am Med Assoc |
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Renal function and nutritional status at the start of chronic dialysis treatment | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Impact of sodium and ultrafiltration profiling on hemodialysis- related symptoms | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Long-term reduction in plasma homocysteine levels by super flux dialyzers in hemodialysis patients | Kidney Int |
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Nasal carriage as a source of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia | N Engl J Med |
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Improvement of sleep apnea in patients with chronic renal failure who undergo nocturnal hemodialysis | N Engl J Med |
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Intracoronary radiotherapy for restenosis | N Engl J Med |
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Low-potassium and glucose-free dialysis maintains urea but enhances potassium removal | Nephrol Dial Transplant |
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February |
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Treatment of severe intradialytic hypotension with the addition of high dialysate calcium concentration to midodrine and/or cool dialysate | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Efficacy and safety of iron sucrose for iron deficiency in patients with dialysis-associated anemia: North American Clinical Trial | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Use of erythropoietin before the initiation of dialysis and its impact on mortality | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Increasing dialysate flow rate increases dialyzer urea mass transfer area coefficient during clinical use | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Mortality risk by hemodialyzer reuse practice and dialyzer membrane characteristics: results from the USRDS dialysis morbidity and mortality study | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Prokinetic agents increase plasma albumin in hypoalbuminemic chronic dialysis patients with delayed gastric emptying | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Peritoneal transport status correlates with morbidity but not longitudinal change in nutritional status of CAPD patients: A 2-year prospective study | Am J Kidney Dis |
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REVIEW: Antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit | Ann Intern Med |
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Update in hepatology | Ann Intern Med |
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Interdialytic weight gain and dry weight | Blood Purif |
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Review: Vascular disease and atherosclerosis in uremia | Blood Purif |
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Debate: Should the hematocrit (hemoglobin) be normalized in pre-ESRD dialysis patients? | Blood Purif |
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Indications for dialysis in the ICU: Renal replacement vs. renal support | Blood Purif |
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Debate: Daily hemodialysis: Is it a complex therapy with unproven benefits? | Blood Purif |
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First clinical experience with an adjunctive hemoperfusion device designed specifically to remove beta-2 microglobulin in hemodialysis | Blood Purif |
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Review: Malnutrition and chronic inflammation as risk factors for cardiovascular disease in chronic renal failure | Blood Purif |
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Outpatient vancomycin use and vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization in maintenance dialysis patients | Kidney Int |
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Treatment of hyperhomocysteinemia in hemodialysis and renal transplant patients | Kidney Int |
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Relationship between hematocrit and renal function in men and women | Kidney Int |
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Effect of cause and time of dropout on the residual GFR: A comparative analysis of the decline of GFR on dialysis | Kidney Int |
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Changing hemodialysis thresholds for optimal survival | Kidney Int |
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Test dose no longer required in labeling for Ferlecit - sodium iron gluconate | Press Release |
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March |
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Strict volume control normalizes hypertension in peritoneal dialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Serum ferritin is a marker of morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Cardiac risk factors and use of cardioprotective medications in patients with chronic renal insufficiency | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Losartan reduces hematocrit in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and secondary erythrocytosis | Ann Intern Med |
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A comparative study of blood pressure control with short in-center vs. long home hemodialysis | Blood Purif |
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Medicare Coverage Policy Decision: Venofer (iron sucrose injection) | HCFA Dec Memo |
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Linezolid and reversible myelosuppression | J Am Med Assoc |
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Preventing dialysis hypotension: A comparison of usual protective maneuvers | Kidney Int |
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Anthropometry-based equations overestimate the urea distribution volume in hemodialysis patients | Kidney Int |
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Oral vitamin B12 and high-dose folic acid in hemodialysis patients with hyper-homocysteinemia | Kidney Int |
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Role of diuretics in the preservation of residual renal function in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis | Kidney Int |
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A synthetic pentasaccharide for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis after total hip replacement | N Engl J Med |
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Full text review / CEU: Arterial and venous pressure monitoring during hemodialysis | Nephrol Nursing J |
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Full text review: A molecular mechanism of erythropoietin signaling | Nephron |
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Full text review: Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in end-stage renal disease patients on chronic hemodialysis | Nephron |
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March |
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NKF 2001 Spring Clinical Meeting abtract links | Am J Kidney Dis |
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January |
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Breaking the camel's back: Multicenter clinical trials and local institutional review boards | Ann Intern Med |
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Sifting the evidence: what's wrong with significance tests | Br Med J |
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Urine detection of survivin and diagnosis of bladder cancer | J Am Med Assoc |
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Hypertension in autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease: Early occurrence and unique aspects | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Physiologic and immunologic hurdles to xenotransplantation | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Long-term results of TPMT activity monitoring in azathioprine-treated renal allograft recipients | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Hyponatremia as a complication of colonoscopy | Lancet |
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Risk factors for cerebral edema in children with diabetic ketoacidosis | N Engl J Med |
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February |
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A latex d-dimer reliably excludes venous thromboembolism | Arch Int Med |
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The molecular basis of familial hemolytic uremic syndrome: Analysis of factor H gene reveals a hot spot in short consensus repeat 20 | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Downregulation of hepatic cytochrome P450 in chronic renal failure | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Gitelman's syndrome revisited: An evaluation of symptoms and health- related quality of life | Kidney Int |
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Replacement of calcineurin inhibitors with mycophenolate mofetil in liver-transplant patients with renal dysfunction: a randomized controlled study | Lancet |
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Efficacy and safety of recombinant human activated protein C for sepsis | N Engl J Med |
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Fomepizole for the treatment of methanol poisoning | N Engl J Med |
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Effect of grapefruit juice on Sandimmun Neoral absorption among stable renal allograft recipients | Nephrol Dial Transplant |
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Laparoscopic or open surgery for living donor nephrectomy | Nephrol Dial Transplant |
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March |
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Propranolol rapidly reverses paralysis, hypokalemia, and hypophosphatemia in thyrotoxic periodic paralysis | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Anti-C1q antibodies may help in diagnosing a renal flare in lupus nephritis | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Coadministration of ketoconazole and cyclosporine for kidney transplant recipients: long-term follow-up and study of metabolic consequences | Am J Kidney Dis |
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Should all patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria receive angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors?: A meta-analysis of individual patient data | Ann Intern Med |
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Acute hyponatremia in children admitted to hospital: retrospective analysis of factors contributing to its development and resolution | Br Med J |
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Influence of tacrolimus on glucose metabolism before and after renal transplantation: A prospective study | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Trends of analgesic nephropathy in two high-endemic regions with different legislation | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Survival in recipients of marginal cadaveric donor kidneys compared with other recipients and wait-listed candidates | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Lowering of microalbuminuria in diabetic patients by a sympathoplegic agent: Novel approach to prevent progression of diabetic nephropathy? | J Am Soc Nephrol |
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Elevated blood pressure predicts the risk of acute rejection in renal allograft recipients | Kidney Int |
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Bone mineral density and histology in distal renal tubular acidosis | Kidney Int |
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Effects of hydroxyethylstarch and gelatin on renal function in severe sepsis | Lancet |
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Noninvasive diagnosis of renal allograft rejection by measurement of messenger RNA for perforin and granzyme B in urine | N Engl J Med |