Pediatric Nephrology

Alterations of leptin and ghrelin serum concentrations in renal disease: simple epiphenomena?

Jörg Dötsch, Kai Nüsken, Michael Schroth, Wolfgang Rascher, Udo Meißner

Heat-shock protein 70: molecular supertool?

Christoph Aufricht

Chronic kidney disease and inflammation in pediatric patients: from bench to playground

Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Lucimary C. Sylvestre, Peter Stenvinkel

Parathormone sensitivity and responses to protein kinases in subclones of opossum kidney cells

Douglas M. Silverstein, Adrian Spitzer, Mario Barac-Nieto

Beneficial in vitro effect of N-acetyl-cysteine on oxidative stress and apoptosis

Jacek Zachwieja, Marcin Zaniew, Waldemar Bobkowski, Ewa Stefaniak, Alfred Warzywoda, Danuta Ostalska-Nowicka, Agnieszka Dobrowolska-Zachwieja, Maria Lewandowska-Stachowiak, Aldona Siwińska

Dysregulation of renal MMP-3 and MMP-7 in canine X-linked Alport syndrome

Velidi H. Rao, George E. Lees, Clifford E. Kashtan, Duane C. Delimont, Rakesh Singh, Daniel T. Meehan, Gautam Bhattacharya, Brian R. Berridge, Dominic Cosgrove

The impact of ibuprofen on renal clearance in preterm infants is independent of the gestational age

Karel Allegaert, Veerle Cossey, Anne Debeer, Jean Paul Langhendries, Bart Van Overmeire, Jan de Hoon, Hugo Devlieger

C1q nephropathy: features at presentation and outcome

Keith K. Lau, Lillian W. Gaber, Noel M. Delos Santos, Robert J. Wyatt

Widening of foot processes in normoalbuminuric adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Torun Birgitta Torbjörnsdotter, Nina Elisabeth Staffansdotter Sohlman Perrin, Georg Alexander Jaremko, Ulla Birgitta Berg

Triamcinolone acetonide: a new management of noncompliance in nephrotic children

Tim Ulinski, Anne Carlier-Legris, Déborah Schlecht, Bruno Ranchin, Pierre Cochat

Neonates with extra-renal pelvis: the first 2 years

Ze’ev Katzir, Michaela Witzling, Gallina Nikolov, Gabriela Gvirtz, Eliana Arbel, David Kohelet, Mona Boaz, Shmuel Smetana, Mordechai Lorberboym

Percutaneous nephrostomy in children: diagnostic and therapeutic importance

Onder Yavascan, Nejat Aksu, Hakan Erdogan, Yahya Aydin, Orhan D. Kara, Murat Kangin, Ali Kanik

Association of vitamin-D and calcitonin receptor gene polymorphism in paediatric nephrolithiasis

Hemant Kumar Bid, Himanshu Chaudhary, Rama Devi Mittal

Determination of inulin clearance by single injection or infusion in children

Lyonne K. van Rossum, Karlien Cransberg, Yolanda B. de Rijke, Robert Zietse, Jan Lindemans, Arnold G. Vulto

Renal function during and after treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

Maryna Krawczuk-Rybak, Marta Kuźmicz, Jolanta Wysocka

Prospective surveillance of Canadian children with the haemolytic uraemic syndrome

François Proulx, Paul Sockett

How are hypertensive children evaluated and managed? A survey of North American pediatric nephrologists

Robert P. Woroniecki, Joseph T. Flynn

Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in infants and toddlers

Nataša Marčun Varda, Alojz Gregorič

Blood pressure and total peripheral resistance in children with chronic kidney disease

Mark M. Mitsnefes, Timothy Knilans, Wayne Mays, Philip R. Khoury, Stephen R. Daniels

Anti-GBM and anti-MPO antibodies coexist in a case of pulmonary renal syndrome

Marta Melgosa Hijosa, Laura Espinosa Román, Carlota Fernández Camblor, María Luz Picazo García, Dorotea Pascual Salcedo, Mercedes Navarro Torres

Rituximab in childhood systemic lupus erythematosus refractory to conventional immunosuppression

Monika Edelbauer, Therese Jungraithmayr, Lothar Bernd Zimmerhackl

Secondary renal Fanconi syndrome caused by valproate therapy

Toru Watanabe, Hideto Yoshikawa, Sawako Yamazaki, Yuki Abe, Tokinari Abe

A case report and review of hypokalemic paralysis secondary to renal tubular acidosis

Nilzete Liberato Bresolin, Eugênio Grillo, Vera Regina Fernandes, Francisca Lígia Cirilo Carvalho, José Eduardo Coutinho Goes, Ronaldo José Melo da Silva

Hemihypertrophy, renal dysplasia and benign nephromegaly

Mohammad Amin Memon, Suravi Mohanty, Kanishka Das, Isha Garg, Ashley Lucien Joseph D’Cruz

Clinico-pathologic findings in medullary cystic kidney disease type 2

Anthony J. Bleyer, Thomas C. Hart, Mark C. Willingham, Samy S. Iskandar, Michael C. Gorry, Howard Trachtman

Megacalycosis: report of two cases

Belde Kasap, Salih Kavukçu, Alper Soylu, Mehmet Türkmen, Mustafa Seçil

Successful stenting for renal artery stenosis in a patient with Alagille syndrome

Haruhiko Hirai, Yoko Santo, Shigetoyo Kogaki, Shunji Kurotobi, Yuri Etani, Sotaro Mushiake, Yoshiaki Nakatsuchi, Shigeo Nakajima, Keiichi Ozono

Simplified quantification of urinary protein excretion using a novel dipstick in children

Kazunari Kaneko, Tomonosuke Someya, Naoto Nishizaki, Takako Shimojima, Risako Ohtaki, Ken-Ichiro Kaneko

Liddle syndrome caused by P616R mutation of the epithelial sodium channel β subunit

Andrzej Ciechanowicz, Zdenek Dolezel, Grzegorz Placha, Jiri Starha, Jarosław Góra, Zbigniew Gaciong, Andrzej Brodkiewicz, Grażyna Adler

9α-fluorohydrocortisone therapy in aldosterone synthase deficiency

Ludwig Stapenhorst

Factitious proteinuria fabricated with adding human albumin: how to detect it?

Velibor Tasic, Blagica Korneti, Koco Cakalaroski, Petar Korneti

Cystatin C: our experience

Snežana Pavićević, Amira Peco-Antić

Bradley A. Warady, Franz S. Schaefer, Richard N. Fine, Steven R. Alexander (eds): Pediatric dialysis

Jennifer E. Slickers, Maria E. Ferris

XXIXth Congress of the Spanish Pediatric Nephrology Association, 25 - 28 June 2003, Avila, Spain

XXXth Congress of the Spanish Pediatric Nephrology Association, 2 - 5 June 2004, Murcia, Spain