Kidney transplantation offers best hope to women with end-stage renal disease who wish to become pregnant. Pregnancy in a kidney transplant recipient continues to remain challenging due to side effects of immunosuppressive medication, risk of deterioration of allograft function, risk of adverse maternal complications of preeclampsia and hypertension, and risk of adverse fetal outcomes of premat...

BACKGROUND The use of the Internet for searching and sharing health information and for health care interactions may have a great potential for Renal Transplant Recipients (RTR). This study aims to determine the characteristics associated with Internet and social network use in a representative sample of RTR at the time of their inclusion in the study. METHODS Data of this cross-sectional des...

Profiling Live Kidney Donors in America: Cause for Optimism and for Concern Peter P. Reese* and John J. Friedewald *Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Comprehensive Transplant Center and Division of Nep...

This supplement of the Journal of American Society of Nephrology contains some of the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hypertension and the Kidney. The Conference, held in Madrid, Spain, in February 2006, was organized by the Department of Nephrology of the Hospital General, Universitario Gregorio Marañón, under the sponsorship of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spani...

BACKGROUND Combination therapy is frequently used to treat patients with pulmonary hypertension but few studies have compared treatment regimens. This study examined the long-term effect of different combination regimens of inhaled iloprost and oral sildenafil on survival and disease progression. METHODS This was a retrospective study of patients in the Giessen Pulmonary Hypertension Registry...

INTRODUCTION Kidney transplant is the preferred renal replacement therapy for patients with end stage kidney disease. However management of patients with kidney transplant in resource poor countries is evolving and groaning under several mental, financial and infrastructural challenges. The objective of the study is to evaluate the management of patients with kidney transplant in a kidney care ...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in children with end-stage renal disease. We investigated the presence of cardiac systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients on peritoneal dialysis or after renal transplantation. Methods and results. Fourteen patients on peritoneal dialysis for a mean of 1.4 years (range 0.1-5.3) and 39 patients with a functioning kidney trans...

Dr. M.R. Ogborn, Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, PO Box 3070, Halifax, N.S. B3J 3G9 (Canada) Dear Sir, The recent excellent review of posttransplantation hypertension by Waltzer et al. [1] suggests that deterioration of renal function with captopril therapy may be indicative of the severity of transplant artery stenosis. We report a case in which labile renal dysfunction was precipit...