Issue 4/2018
Content (32 Articles)
A consensus statement on health-care transition of patients with childhood-onset chronic kidney diseases: providing adequate medical care in adolescence and young adulthood
Wataru Kubota, Masataka Honda, Hirokazu Okada, Motoshi Hattori, Masayuki Iwano, Yuko Akioka, Akira Ashida, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Mayumi Sako, Yoshio Terada, Daishi Hirano, Mikiya Fujieda, Shouichi Fujimoto, Takao Masaki, Shuichi Ito, Osamu Uemura, Yoshimitsu Gotoh, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Shinichi Nishi, Mitsue Maru, Ichiei Narita, Shoichi Maruyama
Recent advances of animal model of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Jae Won Yang, Anne Katrin Dettmar, Andreas Kronbichler, Heon Yung Gee, Moin Saleem, Seong Heon Kim, Jae Il Shin
The functionality of African-specific variants in the TGFB1 regulatory region and their potential role in HIVAN
M. Nel, J.-M. Buys, F. C. J. Botha, N. Wearne, S. Prince, J. M. Heckmann
Arterial wall hypertrophy is ameliorated by α2-adrenergic receptor antagonist or aliskiren in kidneys of angiotensinogen-knockout mice
Haruka Nakamori, Shin-ichiro Yoshida, Hiroaki Ishiguro, Shota Suzuki, Hiroaki Yasuzaki, Tatsuo Hashimoto, Tomoaki Ishigami, Nobuhito Hirawa, Yoshiyuki Toya, Satoshi Umemura, Kouichi Tamura
AQP2 in human urine is predominantly localized to exosomes with preserved water channel activities
Yuko Miyazawa, Saki Mikami, Keiko Yamamoto, Masaki Sakai, Tatsuya Saito, Tadashi Yamamoto, Kenichi Ishibashi, Sei Sasaki
Effect of ferric citrate hydrate on FGF23 and PTH levels in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease with normophosphatemia and iron deficiency
Akira Iguchi, Suguru Yamamoto, Mihoko Yamazaki, Kazuyuki Tasaki, Yasushi Suzuki, Junichiro James Kazama, Ichiei Narita
Clinical features and pathogenesis of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis: a nationwide analysis of the Japan renal biopsy registry from 2007 to 2015
Naoki Nakagawa, Naoyuki Hasebe, Motoshi Hattori, Michio Nagata, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Hiroshi Sato, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Akira Shimizu, Yoshitaka Isaka, Shoichi Maruyama, Ichiei Narita
Inverse correlation between left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and contrast-induced nephropathy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
Guoqiang Gu, Hanghang Xing, Yaqing Zhou, Wei Cui
The clinical relevance of plasma CD147/basigin in biopsy-proven kidney diseases
Yoshiko Mori, Tomohiro Masuda, Tomoki Kosugi, Tomoki Yoshioka, Mayuko Hori, Hiroshi Nagaya, Kayaho Maeda, Yuka Sato, Hiroshi Kojima, Noritoshi Kato, Takuji Ishimoto, Takayuki Katsuno, Yukio Yuzawa, Kenji Kadomatsu, Shoichi Maruyama
The renoprotective effect and safety of a DPP-4 inhibitor, sitagliptin, at a small dose in type 2 diabetic patients with a renal dysfunction when changed from other DPP-4 inhibitors: REAL trial
Koichi Kanozawa, Yuichi Noguchi, Souichi Sugahara, Satoko Nakamura, Hirohisa Yamamoto, Keiko Kaneko, Rika Kono, Saeko Sato, Tomonari Ogawa, Hajime Hasegawa, Shigehiro Katayama
High-normal albuminuria and incident chronic kidney disease in a male nondiabetic population
Aki Ashitani, Toshinori Ueno, Ayumu Nakashima, Shigehiro Doi, Kiminori Yamane, Takao Masaki
Plasma lyso-Gb3: a biomarker for monitoring fabry patients during enzyme replacement therapy
Hitoshi Sakuraba, Tadayasu Togawa, Takahiro Tsukimura, Hiroshi Kato
Glucosuria and all-cause mortality among general screening participants
Kunitoshi Iseki, Tsuneo Konta, Koichi Asahi, Kunihiro Yamagata, Shouichi Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Ichiei Narita, Masato Kasahara, Yugo Shibagaki, Toshiki Moriyama, Masahide Kondo, Chiho Iseki, Tsuyoshi Watanabe
Uric acid-lowering and renoprotective effects of topiroxostat, a selective xanthine oxidoreductase inhibitor, in patients with diabetic nephropathy and hyperuricemia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study (UPWARD study)
Takashi Wada, Tatsuo Hosoya, Daisuke Honda, Ryusuke Sakamoto, Kazutaka Narita, Tomomitsu Sasaki, Daisuke Okui, Kenjiro Kimura
Optimal conditions and the advantages of using laser microdissection and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for diagnosing renal amyloidosis
Michiko Aoki, Dedong Kang, Akira Katayama, Naomi Kuwahara, Shinya Nagasaka, Yoko Endo, Mika Terasaki, Shinobu Kunugi, Yasuhiro Terasaki, Akira Shimizu
Detection of copy number variations by pair analysis using next-generation sequencing data in inherited kidney diseases
China Nagano, Kandai Nozu, Naoya Morisada, Masahiko Yazawa, Daisuke Ichikawa, Keita Numasawa, Hiroyo Kourakata, Chieko Matsumura, Satoshi Tazoe, Ryojiro Tanaka, Tomohiko Yamamura, Shogo Minamikawa, Tomoko Horinouchi, Keita Nakanishi, Junya Fujimura, Nana Sakakibara, Yoshimi Nozu, Ming Juan Ye, Hiroshi Kaito, Kazumoto Iijima
Progressive kidney disease may not alter the association of hyponatremia with mortality
Ladan Golestaneh, Joel Neugarten, Frederick Kaskel, Aileen P. McGinn
Significance of early detection of acute kidney function worsening among outpatients having CKD using automatic calculation system for the rate of eGFR decline
Jun Ito, Hirofumi Kita, Takashi Fujisawa
Semaphorin 7A in circulating regulatory T cells is increased in autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease and decreases with tolvaptan treatment
Yashang Lee, Katrina Lehmann Blount, Feng Dai, Siobhan Thompson, Jonathan Kaufman Scher, Sherrie Bitterman, Madeline Droher, Erica L. Herzog, Gilbert Moeckel, Anil Karihaloo, Neera K. Dahl
Comparison of long-term follow-up outcomes between multiple-drugs combination therapy and tonsillectomy pulse therapy for pediatric IgA nephropathy
Yukihiko Kawasaki, Ryo Maeda, Syuto Kanno, Yuichi Suzuki, Shinichiro Ohara, Kazuhide Suyama, Mitsuaki Hosoya
Clinical features in a series of 258 Japanese pediatric patients with thrombotic microangiopathy
Akira Ashida, Hideki Matsumura, Toshihiro Sawai, Rika Fujimaru, Yuko Fujii, Akihiko Shirasu, Hyogo Nakakura, Kazumoto Iijima
Validation of estimated glomerular filtration rate equations for Japanese children
Yoshimitsu Gotoh, Osamu Uemura, Kenji Ishikura, Tomoyuki Sakai, Yuko Hamasaki, Yoshinori Araki, Riku Hamda, Masataka Honda
Ensuring safe drug administration to pediatric patients with renal dysfunction: a multicenter study
Ryoko Harada, Kenji Ishikura, Shunsuke Shinozuka, Naoaki Mikami, Riku Hamada, Hiroshi Hataya, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Tae Omori, Hirotaka Takahashi, Yuko Hamasaki, Tetsuji Kaneko, Kazumoto Iijima, Masataka Honda
Patient knowledge and adherence to maintenance hemodialysis: an International comparison study
Kana N. Miyata, Jenny I. Shen, Yasuhide Nishio, Manabu Haneda, Kobena A. Dadzie, Nijal R. Sheth, Renjiro Kuriyama, Chika Matsuzawa, Ken Tachibana, Nikolas B. Harbord, James F. Winchester
Risk of cardiovascular mortality predicted by the serum calcium level and calcification score at the initiation of dialysis
Hiroyuki Sato, Tasuku Nagasawa, Ayako Saito, Mariko Miyazaki
Rationale, design, and characteristics of a trial to evaluate the new phosphate iron-based binder sucroferric oxyhydroxide in dialysis patients with the goal of advancing the practice of E.B.M. (EPISODE)
Yoshitaka Isaka, Hideki Fujii, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Satoshi Teramukai, Takayuki Hamano
Diagnostic utility of 18FDG-PET/CT for ADPKD cyst infection
Yoshinosuke Shimamura, Hideki Takizawa
Emphysematous cystitis complicated by unilateral hydronephrosis
Yoichi Iwafuchi, Yuko Oyama, Ichiei Narita
Distinct renal outcomes for transcatheter aortic valve replacement and surgical repair
Abhilash Koratala, Shahab Bozorgmehri, Amir Kazory
Controversies of the classification of TMA and the terminology of aHUS
Hideki Kato, Masaomi Nangaku, Hirokazu Okada, Shoji Kagami
Reduction of 50% of renal mass in children: consequences of hyperfiltration up to the fifth decade of life
Denis A. Cozzi, Silvia Ceccanti, Francesco Cozzi
Cinacalcet HCl therapy in East Asian patients and rs1042636 carriers
H. M. Rothe