Current Therapy in Nephrology

Proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting on Current Therapy in Nephrology (Sorrento, Italy, May 22-25, 1988)

Contenu

I. Glomerular Diseases.- Therapy of Nephritis: New Strategies.- Cell mediated immunity in glomerulonephritis: prospects for treatment.- Enzyme therapy of experimental glomerulonephritis.- DNA antibodies and idiotypes.- Reduction of protein excretion by allopurinol in rats with adriamycin nephrosis.- Clinical experience with an antithrombotic agent (defibrotide) in glomerular diseases. Preliminary results.- Defibrination with ancrod in crescentic glomerular lesions: preliminary observation.- PAF induced glomerular and vascular alterations in the isolated perfused rat kidney.- Histogenesis of glomerular crescents in idiopathic proliferative extracapillary glomerulonephritis. Clinical Aspects.- Premises for an antioxidant therapy in pregnancy induced nephropathy.- Pulse therapy with cyclophosphamide in primary and systemic glomerulopathy resistant to steroid treatment.- IgA Nephropathy.- Clinical presentation of IgA nephropathy in southern Italy.- Interleukin-2 production and abnormalities of immune regulation in patients with primary IgA nephropathy.- In vitro study of T lymphocyte activation in IgA nephropathy.- HLA class II histoglobulins involvement in mesangial IgA glomerulonephritis (Berger's disease).- Variation in T lymphocyte subsets in IgA nephropathy.- Acute renal failure as expression of IgA nephropathy.- Abnormal intestinal permeability in IgA nephropathy.- Nephrotic Syndrome.- Efficiency and tolerance of cyclosporine treatment in adult nephrosis.- Cyclosporine treatment of childhood idiopathic nephrosis.- Acute renal effects of intravenous high dose methylprednisolone therapy in nephrotic syndromes.- Should steroid therapy be used in nephrotic syndrome related to hepatitis B virus associated nephritis?.- Cyclosporine A therapy in nephrotic adults.- Cyclosporine effect on corticoresistant nephrotic syndrome in primary glomerulonephritis.- Effects of Cyclosporine A on renal function and proteinuria in patients with nephrotic syndrome after a single oral administration.- Cyclosporine A therapy in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome.- Captopril as an antiproteinuric agent in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis.- Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome treated with Cyclosporine A.- Miscellany.- Intravascular volume expansion as therapeutic approach to the underfill state of pre-eclampsia.- A prospective randomized therapeutic trial for schistosomal specific nephropathy.- Immunotactoid glomerulopathy: what about therapy?.- Renal presentation is not a relevant factor in predicting renal outcome in patients with systemic lupus.- Is tubulointerstitial damage a reliable index for predicting renal outcome in primary membranous nephropathy?.- Serum IgA in children with acute post-infectious glomerulonephritis.- Epidemiology of idiopathic glomerular disease in a french area: a prospective study.- II. Therapy in Renal Failure.- Plasma Exchange in Acute Renal Failure.- Clinical course of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis during immunosuppressive therapy, plasma exchange and without specific therapy.- Plasma exchange in treatment of acute vascular rejection.- Evaluation of plasma exchange effect in patients with lung hemorrhage and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis either idiopathic or vasculitis associated.- Current treatment of acute renal failure from leptospirosis.- Plasma exchange induced improvement on extra-renal manifestations of systemic lupus erithematosus.- Medical Therapy in Chronic Renal Failure.- Feasibility of an integrated diet-dialysis program as a treatment of ESRD.- Treatment of uremic anemia with etretinate: comparison with recombinant human erythropoietin.- Acute effects of carnitine addition to the dialysis fluid during hemodialysis in patients with chronic renal failure.- Clonidine is effective in the treatment of "restless legs" syndrome in chronic uremic patients.- Hemorheology and hypertension in end-stage renal failure patients treated with erythropoietin.- Effects of chronic hyperproteic diet on renal function and albumin excretion.- ACE inhibition and progression of renal injury in man.- One year experience with hypoproteic diet and once a week hemodialysis (less than 5 hours).- Calcitriol and renal failure.- Torasemide, a loop diuretic, useful in correcting ECF volume expansion in patients with chronic renal failure.- Miscellany.- Treatment of rapidly progressive lupus glomerulonephritis.- The effect of a single perinatal treatment with captopril on cytotoxicity in rats.- New evidence for the neurotoxicity of PTH in uremia.- Connection between chronic renal insufficiency and alluvial soils in central Greece.- III. Dialysis.- New Techniques.- Clearances of small solutes in hemodiafiltration and paired filtration dialysis.- L-carnitine addition in the dialysis fluid: a new therapeutical approach for hemodialysis patients.- Bidirectional bloodpump with a bidirectional bloodpassage through the artificial kidney.- Hemodialysis with low flow of sterile dialysate. Experience of two years.- Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration for hemodynamic stabilisation by blood cooling in septic shock.- Blood volume changes during hemodialysis detected by conductivity measurements.- A new hemodialysis single patient unit in the short dialysis treatments.- Paired filtration dialysis: better purification than conventional hemodialysis.- Modification of biohumoral and electromyographic features in patients on PFD: 12 months follow up results.- Restoration of the strength of ESRF patients by PFD.- Beta-2-Microglobulin.- Relation between red blood cell function and beta-2 microglobulin concentration in hemodialysis.- Beta-2-microglobulin adsorption on activated charcoal.- Clinical characteristics of beta-2-microglobulin associated amyloidosis in chronic haemodialysis patients.- Plasma beta-2-microglobulin changes induced by different dialysis membranes.- Intradialytic behaviour of beta-2-microglobulin during acetate dialysis, biofiltration and paired filtration dialysis.- In vitro influence of six dialysis membranes on beta-2-microglobulin behaviour.- Behaviour of beta-2-microglobulin in CRF patients starting blood purification.- Nutrition.- Standards for nutritional assessment in dialysis.- Is malnutrition a clinically evident condition in patients undergoing hemodialysis?.- Serum branch-chain amino- and ketoacids in the nutritional and immunological assessment of uremics on conservative and dialysis treatment.- Nutritional abnormalities as a guide to prognosis in hemodialyzed patients.- Relationship between physical activity and nutritional status in patients on maintenance hemodialysis.- Risk factors of malnutrition in RDT patients.- Dietetic supplements in malnourished patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis.- Biocompatibility.- Clinical aspects of hemodialysis biocompatibility.- Cellular aspects of biocompatibility.- Hemodialysis-associated neutrophil abnormalities and generation of leukotriene B4.- An immunohistochemical technique for the study of plasma proteins absorbed on dialysis membranes.- Adsorption of anaphylatoxins C3a and C5a on AN-69 and polysulfone membranes of dialyzer-In vivo study.- Blood cooling prevents degranulation of neutrophils during hemodialysis.- Long term effects of blood-material interactions.- Blood concentration of plasticizer at steady-state in dialysing patients: A model.- IgE ethylene antioxide and eosinophilia dialysis.- Criteria of Adequacy.- Criteria for adequate hemodialysis.- Dialytic adequacy of different replacement treatments.- Routine evaluation of kt/V and protein catabolic rate.- Adequacy of biofiltration: A comparative study with standard acetate hemodialysis.- Is it possible a mathematical verification of Kt/V?.- Adequacy of dialysis and prolonged reuse.- Acid-Base Balance.- Positive acid balance in patients undergoing chronic hemofiltration.- Trends of BUN a…