nephSAP: Volume 4
Volume 4, Number 1, January 2005
Transplantation
William M. Bennett, MD and John P. Vella, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
The recurrence of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in human renal allografts has remained an enigma ever since the first report of three patients with rapid recurrence of FSGS after transplantation was published by Hoyer et al. (1)....
Volume 4, Number 2, March 2005
Hypertension
George L. Bakris, MD and Stephen C. Textor, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
What health problem is responsible for the greatest number of human deaths today? AIDS? Malnutrition or its opposite, obesity? The great infectious diseases like tuberculosis or malaria? Smoking? Surprisingly, it is none of these....
Volume 4, Number 3, May 2005
Glomerular, Vascular, and Tubulointerstitual Diseases
Gerald B. Appel, MD and Richard J. Glassock, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
The postulated mechanisms of glomerular filtration and tubular reabsorption of proteins in physiologic and pathologic conditions have been extensively investigated over the past several decades (1). Briefly, two major mechanisms appear to be responsible f...
Volume 4, Number 4, July 2005
Genetic Diseases of the Kidney
Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, MD and Vicente E. Torres, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
Nephrology has been a recognized scientific discipline for nearly 40 years (1). During the first 20 years, hereditary conditions in this field of study would have more properly been classified as "Dangerfield's Disorders," because they, like famous lateni...
Volume 4, Number 5, September 2005
Renal Osteodystrophy, Disorders of Divalent Ions, and Nephrolithiasis
Stanley Goldfarb, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is common among patients with chronic kidney disease. It is an almost invariable consequence of progressive renal insufficiency in untreated patients, and it affects a substantial proportion of patients managed by dial...
Volume 4, Number 6, November 2005
End-Stage Renal Disease and Dialysis
Thomas A. Depner, MD and John M. Burkart, MD
6.0 category 1 credits
Diabetes mellitus was the assigned cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in 45% of the 99,057 newly diagnosed adult cases in the United States in 2002 (1). ESRD risk is three times higher among persons with diabetes mellitus compared to the general popu...