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Welcome to Nephrology Now, a monthly list of the most pertinent and/or potentionally controversial articles in clinical Nephrology. These articles are selected from a wide range of journals from both the Nephrology and Internal Medicine literature.

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Original Research - General Nephrology

The DREAM Trial Investigators.
Effect of Ramipril on the Incidence of Diabetes
N Engl J Med 2006; 355: 1551-1562 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Commentary]
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JM Hollingsworth, MAM Rogers, SR Kaufman, TJ Bradford, S Saint, JT Wei and BK Hollenbeck
Medical Therapy to Facilitate Urinary Stone Passage: a Meta-Analysis.
Lancet 2006; 368:1171-1179
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MV Rocco, DL Frankenfield, SD Hopson, and WM McClellan.
Relationship between Clinical Performance Measures and Outcomes among Patients Receiving Long-Term Hemodialysis.
Ann Intern Med 2006; 145: 512-519 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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P Saudan, M Niederberger, S De Seigneux, J Romand, J Pugin, T Perneger and PY Martin.
Adding a Dialysis Dose to Continuous Hemofiltration Increases Survival in Patients with Acute Renal Failure.
Kidney Int 2006, 70: 1312-1317. [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Commentary]
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H Shah, M Chu, JM Bargman.
Perioperative Management of Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Undergoinng Hernia Surgery Without the Use of Interim Hemodialysis.
Peritoneal Dialysis 2006; 26: 684–687. [Free Abstract] [Free PDF]***
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TDJ Smilde, DJ van Veldhuisen, G Navis, AA Voors and HL Hillege.
Drawbacks and Prognostic Value of Formulas Estimating Renal Function in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure and Systolic Dysfunction.
Circulation 2006;114:1572-1580 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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AG Vinayak, J Levitt, B Gehlbach, AS Pohlman, JB Hal, JP Kress.
Usefulness of the External Jugular Vein Examination in Detecting Abnormal Central Venous Pressure in Critically Ill Patients.
Arch Intern Med 2006;166 2132-2137 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Free Video]
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K Wakai, T Kawamura, M Endoh, M Kojima, Y Tomino, A Tamakoshi, Y Ohno, Y Inaba, and H Sakai.
A Scoring System to Predict Renal Outcome in IgA Nephropathy: From a Nationwide Prospective Study.
Nephrol Dial Transplant 2006; 21: 2800-2808 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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EJ Bini, A Kinkhabwala, DS Goldfarb.
Predictive Value of a Positive Fecal Occult Blood Test Increases as the Severity of CKD Worsens.
AJKD 2006; 48: 580-586 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Original Research - Transplantation

SJ Kim, GVR Prasad, M Huang, MM Nash, O Famure, J Park, MA Thenganat, N Chowdhury, EH Cole, SSA Fenton, DC Cattran, JS Zaltzman,CJ Cardella.
A Comparison of the Effects of C2-Cyclosporine and C0-Tacrolimus on Renal Function and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Transplantation 2006; 82: 924-930. [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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R Wen, V Wu, S Dmitrienko, A Yu, R Balshaw, P A Keown and the Genome Canada Biomarkers in Transplantation Group.
Biomarkers in Transplantation: Prospective, Blinded Measurement of Predictive Value for the Flow Cytometry Crossmatch after Negative Antiglobulin Crossmatch in Kidney Transplantation.
Kidney Int 2006; 70: 1474-1481[Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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Guidelines

A Levin and D Mendelssohn
Care & Referral of Adult Patients with Reduced Kidney Function
Canadian Society of Nephrology Position Paper Oct 2006
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SD Shemie, AJ Baker, G Knoll, W Wall, G Rocker, D Howes, J Davidson, J Pagliarello, J Chambers-Evans, S Cockfield, C Farrell, W Glannon, W Gourlay, D Grant, S Langevin, B Wheelock, K Young, and J Dossetor
Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death in Canada
CMAJ 2006; 175: S1 [Free Abstract] [Free Full Text] [Free PDF]

CJ White, MR Jaff, ZJ Haskal, DJ Jones, JW Olin, KJ Rocha-Singh, KA Rosenfield, JH Rundback, and SL Linas
Indications for Renal Arteriography at the Time of Coronary Arteriography: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association Committte on Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization, Council on Clinical Cardiology, and the Councils on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention and on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease.
Circulation 2006; 114: 1892-1895 [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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Reviews

BY Choy, TM Chan, KN Lai
Recurrent Glomerulonephritis After Kidney Transplantation.
Am Jour of Transplantation 2006; 6: 2535-2542. [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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M Waldman and G B Appel
Update on the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
Kidney Int 2006; 70: 1403-1412. [Free Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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Opinion

JM Bargman
Peritoneal dialysis solutions and patient survival: does wishing make it so?
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2006; 21: 2684-2686.
[Free Full Text] [Free PDF]

EA Friedman and L Friedman
Payment for donor kidneys: Pros and cons.
Kidney International 2006; 69: 960–962.[Free Full Text] [Free PDF]
[Free Additional Commentary]

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