RENAL PHYSIOLOGY:

"CHYMASE: AN ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY OF ANGIOTENSIN II-MEDIATED DIABETIC AND HYPERTENSIVE KIDNEY DISEASE"
Hui Y Lan, MD, PhD.
Associate Professor of Medicine. Department of Medicine-Nephrology. Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. USA

"ACTIVATION OF PROTEIN KINASE C-MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE PATHWAY AND DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY"
Daisuke Koya MD., Ryuichi Kikkawa MD., Atsunori Kashiwagi MD. and Masakazu Haneda MD.
Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science Seta, Otsu. Shiga, Japan

"CALCITRIOL AS A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM"
Yan Chun Li PH.D
Deparment of Medicine. University of Chicago. Illinois. USA

"CLINICAL APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH A LARGE URINE OUTPUT: TOWARDS A BETTER DEFINITION OF POLYURIA"
Andre F. Charest MD, Mathieu Lemaire MSc, Mohammad Ali Shafiee MD, Kamel S. Kamel MD, and Mitchell L Halperin MD
Renal Division, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto. Ontario, Canada

"CONGENITAL OBSTRUCTIVE NEPHROPATHY: LESSONS FROM ANIMAL MODELS"
Helen Liapis MD., and Sanjay Jain MD. PhD.
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis. MO, USA

"REGULATION OF THE URINE PH AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF KIDNEY STONES"
Kamel S. Kamel MD and Mitchell L Halperin.
Division of Nephrology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"BASES MOLECULARES DE LA BARRERA DE FILTRACION GLOMERULAR - SINDROME NEFROTICO CORTICORRESISTENTE"
Stella Dieguez MD.
Nefrología Infantil. Hospital de Niños R. Gutierrez. Buenos Aires. Argentina

"MAST CELLS IN THE KIDNEY: WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE?"
Ian S. Roberts MD.
Renal Pathologist, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.

CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY:

GLOMERULOPATHIES

"NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IGA NEPHROPATHY"
Colin C. Geddes FRCP. (Gla)
Renal Unit, Western Infirmary, Glasgow - UK

"PROGRESIÓN DE LA NEFROPATÍA IGA"
Dres. Luis Carreras, Francesc Moreso y Rafael Poveda.
Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge. Barcelona. España

"NECROTIZING CRESCENTIC IgA NEPHROPATHY"
Franco Ferrario MD.
Renal Immunopathology Center. San Carlo Borromeo Hospital. Milan. Italia

"TREATMENT OF VISCERAL HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA: WHAT DO WE KNOW, WHAT DO WE NEED ?"
Eric Thervet MD. PhD.
Service de Néphrologie et Transplantation Rénale. Hôpital Saint-Louis. Paris, France

"GLOMERULONEFRITIS MEMBRANO PROLIFERATIVA, UN PROBLEMA NO RESUELTO".
Dr. Abdias Hurtado.
Servicio de Nefrologia. Hospital Arzobispo Loayza. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima. Perú

"MORPHOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF CRESCENTIC GLOMERULOPATHIES. (CRESCENTIC GLOMERULITIS OR CRGL)".
Ernesto O. Hoffmann, MD. PhD.
Professor of Patologia, Louisiana State University Medical Center and VA Medical Center. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

"CYTOKINES IN PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL CRESCENTIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS"
Frederick W. K. Tam, MB. BChir. PhD. MRCP.
Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine. Imperial College London, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London. UK

"ANTIGLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE"
Jeremy B. Levy, MA, PhD, ILTM, MRCP.
Consultant Nephrologist. Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals, Imperial College London, UK

"GLOMERULOPATHIES WITH ORGANIZED DEPOSITS"
Samy S. Iskandar, MBBCh, PhD.
Professor of Pathology Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Medical Center Blvd. Winston-Salem, NC. USA

"ENFERMEDAD DE ALPORT: UN DIAGNÓSTICO DIFÍCIL"
Suzanne Meleg-Smith, M.D.
Professor of Pathology Head, Renal Pathology. Head, Autopsy Services. Tulane University School of Medicine. New Orleans, LA, USA

"HIPERTROFIA GLOMERULAR EN LA NEFROPATÍA DIABÉTICA"
Dra. Ana Maria Cusumano.
Sección Nefrología, Departamento de Medicina Interna CEMIC (Centro de Educación Médica e Investigación Clínica). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"URINE CYTOLOGY IN RENAL GLOMERULAR DISEASE AND VALUE OF G1 CELL IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF GLOMERULAR BLEEDING"
Gia-Khanh Nguyen, MD.
Professor and Head of Cytopathology University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton. Alberta, Canada

"E-CADHERIN/CATENIN COMPLEX IN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS".
Prof. Lydia Nakopoulou MD and Aphrodite Nonni MD.
Department of Pathology, Medical School, The National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

OTHERS

"EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF POLYOMA VIRUS ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY"
Cinthia B. Drachenberg, M.D., John C. Papadimitriou, M.D., Ph.D. and Emilio Ramos M.D.
Departments of Pathology and Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine. Baltimore. USA

"DIAGNOSIS AND CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION".
Ita Pfeferman Heilberg, M.D., PhD.
Associate Professor. Nephrology Division. Universidade Federal de São Paulo. São Paulo. Brazil

"SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND THE KIDNEY"
Prof. Rashad Barsoum MD, FRCP, FRCPE
Head of the Nephrology Department of Cairo University. Kasr-El-Aini School of Medicine, Cairo University. Past President of Egyptian Society of Nephrology. Cairo, Egypt

"SNAKES AND SNAKE BITE IN NEPAL"
Sanjib Kumar Sharma MD.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine. BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.

"EPIDEMIOLOGÍA CLÍNICA DE LA UROLITIASIS EN AREAS TROPICALES"
Dr. D. Leonardo Ramon Reyes Rabanal.
Departamento de Fisiopatologia. Instituto de Nefrologia. Ciudad de la Habana. Cuba

"STAR FRUIT INTOXICATION IN URAEMIC PATIENTS"
Miguel Moyses Neto MD.
Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo University (USP), Brazil

COULD CHRONIC LEAD POISONING BE A CAUSE OF RENAL INSUFFICIENCY IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTENSION AND GOUT?
Ana I. Sánchez Fructuoso
Nephrology Unit, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

"OCCUPATIONAL RENAL DISEASES"
Richard P. Wedeen, MD.
Department of Veterans Affairs. New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange. NJ, USA.

"ENVIRONMENT, MEDICAL GEOLOGY AND THE ETIOLOGY OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY"
Calin A. Tatu, William H. Orem
Department of Immunology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania. US Geological Survey, Sunrise Valley Drive. Reston, USA

"PREVENTION OF INCIPIENT DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY BY THIAMINE AND BENFOTIAMINE"
Prof. Paul J. Thornalley
Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Essex U.K.

ACUTE RENAL FAILURE:

"NEONATAL RENAL FAILURE"
J.Balasubramaniam MD, PhD.
Kidney Care Centre. Madurai Road, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.

"HEPATORENAL SYNDROME: ADVANCES IN TREATMENT AND PREVENTION".
Pere Ginès MD.
Liver Unit. Hospital Clínic. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi-Sunyer (IDIBAPS). University of Barcelona School of Medicine. Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

"TROPICAL ACUTE RENAL FAILURE"
Omar Abboud MD. FRCP.
Hamad Medical Corporation. Doha, Qatar

"CRUSH SYNDROME"
Osman Dönmez, M.D.
Departments of Pediatric Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University. Bursa, Turkey.

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE:

POTASSIUM METABOLISM IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
Carlos G. Musso MD., and Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos MD., PhD.
Nephrologist of the Nephrology Department. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Argentina and
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Director - Peritoneal Dialysis Program, The University Health Network/The Toronto Western Hospital. Toronto. Canada

"CAUSES AND THERAPY OF MICROINFLAMMATION IN RENAL FAILURE"
Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler.
Abt. Nephrologie. Charité-Virchow Klinik. Berlin. Germany

"ARISTOLOCHIC ACID NEPHROPATHY (FORMERLY CHINESE HERBS NEPHROPATHY)".
Jean-Pierre Cosyns MD. PhD.
Department of Pathology, Medical School, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

"UREMIC PERICARDITIS"
Prof. Sanjay K. Agarwal, Dr. Vikram Kalra
Additional Professor, and Pool Officer. Department of Nephrology. AIIMS, New Delhi, India

"INFLAMMATION AND OXIDANT STRESS IN END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE PATIENTS"
Mary Lou Wratten Ph.D.
Research Department, Bellco, Mirandola (MO), and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Padova. Padova, Italy

"ACTUALIZATION ON STRATEGIES TO PREVENT PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE"
Malvinder Parmar, MD, FRCPC, FACP.
Assistant Professor (VPT). Department of Medicine. University of Ottawa. Timmins, ON. Canada.

"WHEN TO START DIALYSIS"
James E. Tattersall. MD.
Department of Nephrology, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

"MORTALITY RISKS AMONG NEW END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE (ESKD) PATIENTS IN THE UNITED STATES"
Austin G. Stack MBBCh, MS, MRCPI.
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. USA.

"HEPATITIS B VACCINATION IN RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS"
Dimosthenis Vlassopoulos MD.
A Fleming General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Athens, Greece.

"CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS INFECTION IN PATIENTS ON RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY"
Thomas Fehr MD and Patrice M. Ambühl MD
Transplantation Biology Research Center. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. USA, and
Renal Division, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

"ACYCLOVIR TREATMENT IN RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS"
Anders Helldén, MD.
Huddinge University Hospital. Stockholm. Sweden

"QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE"
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, California, USA

"INFLAMACIÓN EN LA INSUFICIENCIA RENAL CRÓNICA".
Francisco Caravaca MD.
S. Nefrología. Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina. Badajoz. Spain

"IMPORTANCIA DEL DIAGNÓSTICO DE LA INSUFICIENCIA RENAL CRÓNICA EN EL ANCIANO"
Dr. Enrique Andrés
Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona. España

"CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IS A RISK FACTOR FOR MALNUTRITION"
Prof. Sergio Acchiardo
Professor of Medicine. University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Memphis Medical Center. Memphis, USA

ANEMIA AND RENAL FAILURE:

"INFLAMMATION AND RESISTANCE TO ERYTHROPOIESIS-STIMULATING AGENTS - LINKS TO OXIDATIVE STRESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY"
Peter Bárány, MD.
Department of Renal Medicine. Huddinge University Hospital. Stockholm, Sweden

"THE USE OF VITAMIN C AS AN ADJUVANT THERAPY TO RECOMBINANT HUMAN ERYTHROPOIETIN IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE"
Sehsuvar Ertürk, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Ankara University Medical School. Ankara, Turkey

"CAN CORRECTION OF ANEMIA SLOW THE PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC RENAL DISEASES?"
Jerome Rossert, MD, PhD.
Department of Nephrology, Tenon Hospital. AP-HP and Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

"IS RECOMBINANT-HUMAN ERYTHROPOIETIN RESISTANCE ANOTHER PREDICTOR OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN END-STAGE RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS?"
Paraskevi Tseke, MD. and George Tsirpanlis, MD.
Renal Unit, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION:

"NOVEL CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN END STAGE RENAL DISEASE"
Carmine Zoccali MD.
CNR Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica e Fisopatologia delle Malattie Renali e Dell'Ipertensione Arteriosa, Istituto di Biomedicina, Ospedali Riuniti, Reggio Calabria, Italy.

"LA ENFERMEDAD RENAL CRÓNICA COMO FACTOR DE RIESGO CARDIOVASCULAR"
Dr. Jordi Bover.
Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona. España

"MEDIAL THICKENINGS OF CORONARY ARTERY IN RELATION TO RENAL MICROVASCULOPATHIES OF HYPERTENSION".
Richard E. Tracy MD. PhD.
Department of Pathology. Louisiana State University. Health Sciences Center. New Orleans. USA

CASUAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT IN CHILDREN"
Vera H. Koch, M.D.
Head, Pediatric Nephrology Unit. Instituto da Criança- Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo. Brazil

"RENAL INVOLVEMENT IN MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION"
Solomon Kadiri MD.
Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

"HYPERTENSION AND SALT-SENSITIVITY. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS".
Alejandro de la Sierra, MD, PhD, Ernesto Bragulat, MD, María Larrousse, MD
Hypertension Unit. Department of Internal Medicine. IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer). Hospital Clínic. Barcelona. Spain

"RECENT INSIGHTS INTO THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM AND PROGRESSION OF RENAL DISEASE"
Prof. Dr. Gunter Wolf.
Dept. Medicine, Div. Nephrology and Osteology University of Hamburg, University Hospital Eppendorf. Hamburg Germany

CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER LESIONS IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION
Cristina Sierra, MD, PhD
Hypertension Unit. Hospital Clinic. Institut d´Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS). University of Barcelona. Spain

"METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING".
A. Díez-Noguera, M.A. Sans-Fuentes, X. Sarrias.
Departament de Fisiología, Facultat de Farmacia. Universitat de Barcelona, Servei de Nefrología, Hospital de Bellvitge, Unidad de Hipertensión. CSUB. Barcelona. España

FÁRMACOS ANTI-SRA Y PROTECCIÓN RENAL"
Alberto Martínez Castelao
Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge. Hospitalet de Llobregat. Barcelona. España

BLOQUEO COMBINADO DEL EJE RENINA-ANGIOTENSINA
Nicolás Roberto Robles
Unidad de Hipertensión Arterial. Hospital Infanta Cristina. Badajoz, España

EPIDEMIOLOGIA DE HIPERTENSION ARTERIAL EN PACIENTES EN HEMODIALISIS
Enrique Inchausti, Dennis Bueno
CENDIAL, GAMBRO Healthcare. Mar del Plata, San Salvador de Jujuy – Argentina

FACTORES DE RIESGO CARDIOVASCULAR EN TRASPLANTE RENAL
Joan Manuel Díaz MD.
Unitat Trasplantament Renal. Servicio Nefrología. Fundación Puigvert. Barcelona.

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS:

"ICODEXTRIN: TEN YEARS OF CLINICAL EXPERIENCE"
Gianpaolo Amici MD. and Giorgio Da Rin MD
Nephrology and Dialysis Division, and Clinical Chemistry. Regional Hospital "S. Maria dei Battuti", Treviso, Italy

"SERUM ALBUMIN IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS"
Colin H Jones MB ChB, MD, FRCP
Renal Unit, York Hospital. York, United Kingdom.

"LONG-TERM SURVIVAL ON PERITONEAL DIALYSIS IN END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE DUE TO DIABETES"
Ploumis Passadakis, Vassilis Vargemezis, Dimitrios Oreopoulos
Department of Nephrology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece;
University Health Sciences, The Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

APOPTOSIS: A NEW PLAYER IN PD COMPLICATIONS
Alberto Ortiz, MD, PhD
Associate Chief of Nephrology. Unidad de Diálisis. Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y Grupo de Estudios Peritoneales de Madrid del Instituto Reina Sofia de Investigaciones Nefrológicas. España

IMPORTANCIA DE LA TECNICA DE DIALISIS PERITONEAL EN EL BALANCE DE SODIO
Miguel Pérez Fontán
Hospital Juan Canalejo. La Coruña. España

HEMODIALYSIS:

PERSONAL HISTORY OF VASCULAR ACCESS En honor de los Dres. Belding Scribner and Nils Alwall.
Sir Stanley Shaldon MA.MD.FRCP.
Monaco

"TESTING PROTEIN PERMEABILITY OF DIALYSIS MEMBRANES USING SDS-PAGE".
Prof. Helmut Mann MD, PhD. H. Melzer, MD
Institute for Applied Nephrology INTERNEPH. Aachen, Germany

"PRURITUS IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS"
Giovambattista Virga, MD.
Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Camposampiero. Padova, Italy

"EVALUACION DEL ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE LOS PACIENTES RENALES Y AJUSTE DEL PESO SECO EN CAPD Y HD: PAPEL DE LA BIOIMPEDANCIA"
Secundino Cigarrán , Guillermina Barril , Carmen Bernis, Antonio Cirugeda, Isabel Herraiz, Rafael Selgas
Servicio de Nefrologia. Hospital de la Princesa. Madrid, España.

"CARNITINE SUPPLEMENTATION IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS"
Dr. Charles Chazot.
Centre de Rein Artificiel, Tassin, France.

"NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS DE TRATAMIENTO DEL AGUA"
D. Pedro Sobrino.
Tecnico del Servicio de Nefrología del Hospital de la Princesa. España.

"VALIDACION DE LA DOSIS DE DIALISIS MEDIDA CON ONLINE CLEARANCE MONITOR (OCM) Y EL Kt/V DE DAUGIRDAS 93. UTILIZACION DE LA ENFERMERIA NEFROLOGICA EN LA PRACTICA DIARIA EN UNA UNIDAD DE HEMODIALISIS."
Cigarrán S MD, Rodríguez Cabrera MJ DUE, Torres Márquez MªL DUE, Coronel F MD, Torrente MD, Brunete Mayor E DUE, Fernández-Palacios Ruiz V DUE, García-Mauriño Mundi C DUE, Lorenzo Ponce C.
Unidad Nefrológica Moncloa. Fresenius Medical Care. Madrid. España

"INFECTIONS RELATED TO PROSTHETIC MATERIALS IN PATIENTS ON CHRONIC DIALYSIS"
Stephen I. Vas MD PhD FRCPc.
Professor of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. University of Toronto. University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital. Toronto. Ontario. Canada

"ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE HEMO STUDY"
Mark Unruh MD.  
Assistant Professor of Medicine. Division of Nephrology. Scaife Hall. Pittsburgh, PA. USA

"DEFINING, DIALOGING, AND DIALYSING THE ELDERLY"
David C. Lowance, M.D.
LifeLink of Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

MARCADORES DE INFLAMACIÓN EN LOS PACIENTES EN HEMODIÁLISIS: SU VALOR PRONÓSTICO.
Pérez García R., Rodríguez Benítez P., Jofre R., López Gómez JM, Carretero D., Amann R. y Fernández Rodríguez ML.
Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital General Universitario "Gregorio Marañón". Madrid.

ROUND TABLE:
HEMODIALISIS DIARIA. UNA NUEVA ALTERNATIVA.

• "INDICACIONES Y PAPEL DE LA DIALISIS LARGA NOCTURNA"
  Andreas Pierratos MD FRCPC.
  Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• "EVALUACIÓN DE LA EFICACIA DE HD DIARIA (HDD) CORTA EN 11 PACIENTES DE MADRID. ESTUDIO PILOTO MULTICÉNTRICO"
  Dra Guillermina Barril Cuadrado.
  Hospital de la Princesa. Madrid. España
• "HEMODIAFILTRACIÓN EN LÍNEA DIARIA"
  Dr. Francisco Maduell.
  Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital General de Castellón. España

RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY:

"RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"
Adel Afifi, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Past president, National Kidney Foundation - Egypt.

BONE "DENSITOMETRY": SO EASY TO ORDER, SO DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET
A. Michael Parfitt M.D.
Professor of Medicine. Division of Endocrinology and Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Little Rock, Arkansas. USA

"POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS IN THE DIALYSIS PATIENT"
José R. Weisinger and Ezequiel Bellorin-Font
Division of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

"IMPLICACIONES BIOLOGICAS DE LA PTH, EL PTHrP Y SUS RECEPTORES"
Pablo Ureña MD.
Service de Nephrologie et Dialyse. Clinique de l'Orangerie. Aubervilliers, France.

"PARATHYROIDECTOMY IN RENAL HYPERPARATHYROIDISM".
Ulrich Neyer MD., and Helmut Hörandner, MD
Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, LKH Feldkirch, Austria

"THE REGIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PARATHYROID TISSUE AS USED FOR TISSUE SELECTION PRIOR TO AUTOTRANSPLANTATION".
Helmut Hörandner and Ulrich Neyer
Electron Microscopy Laboratory Mauer, Vienna
Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, VIVIT, Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment, LKH Feldkirch, Austria

"SOURCES OF PHOSPHORUS FOR RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS"
Jaime Uribarri, MD.
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Director Dialysis Services, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. New York, USA

"INTERACTION OF BONE AND VASCULAR DISEASE IN CKD-5"
Paolo Raggi MD, FACP, FACC
Director of Preventive and Non-Invasive Cardiology Tulane University Health Sciences Center. New Orleans. LA, USA

"PAPEL CARDIOVASCULAR DEL FÓSFORO"
Elvira Fernández, MD
Servei de Nefrologia. Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova. Lleida, Spain

"OSTEODISTROFIA PRECOZ: HALLAZGOS EN INSUFICIENCIA RENAL CRÓNICA LEVE-MODERADA"
José G. Hervas MD. PhD., Dolores Prados MD. PhD., Juan de Dios Luna MD, Sebastián Cerezo MD
Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital Clínico San Cecilio y Departamento de Bioestadística. Universidad de Granada. España.

"MOLECULAR MECHANISMS FOR 1,25D CONTROL OF PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA"
Adriana S. Dusso MD.
Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. USA

"ALTERACIONES DEL METABOLISMO OSEO TRAS EL TRASPLANTE RENAL".
A. Torres, S. García, Y. Barrios, D. Hernández, V. Lorenzo.
Servicio de Nefrología y Unidad de Investigación. Hospital Universitario de Canarias. Instituto Reina Sofía de Investigación. La Laguna, Tenerife. España

"CAMBIO DE PROTAGONISMO DEL HUESO ADINAMICO EN LA INSUFICIENCIA RENAL CRONICA EN LOS ULTIMOS 20 AÑOS"
Dr Xavier Cuevas.
Jefe de Servicio Hospital de Terrassa, Barcelona. España

"RELEVANCIA DE LOS NIVELES DE 25 HIDROXIVITAMINA D EN PACIENTES CON IRC."
Dr Carlos Gomez Alonso y Dr Jorge B. Cannata-Andía.
Servicio de Metabolismo Oseo y Mineral, Instituto Reina Sofía de Investigación, Hospital Central de Asturias. Oviedo, Spain.

RENAL TRANSPLANTATION:

"PROTOCOL BIOPSIES AS ROUTINE MANAGEMENT OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS"
Daniel R. Salomon MD.
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute. La Jolla, California, USA

"INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF SUBCLINICAL RENAL TRANSPLANT REJECTION: PROTOCOL BIOPSIES, URINE NMR AND PROTEOMICS"
David Rush MD FRCPC.
Professor and Head, Section of Nephrology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

"ELISA DETERMINATION OF ANTI-HLA SPECIFICITY FOR IMMUNIZED PATIENTS: A STRATEGY TO MAKE GRAFTING POSSIBLE"
Andrea Buscaroli MD, Sandra Iannelli MD, Sergio Stefoni MD.
Department of Nephrology. S.Orsola University Hospital. Bologna, Italy

AHORRO DE ESTEROIDES EN EL TRASPLANTE RENAL
Josep M. Grinyó
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Barcelona. España

"RISK OF CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY AND PRETRANSPLANT SERUM C-REACTIVE PROTEIN"
Jeffrey C. Fink MD.
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine. University of Maryland Medical System Baltimore, MD. USA

"POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS"
Parmjeet Randhawa MD.
Departments of Pathology. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA

"ROLE OF PRAVASTATIN IN PEDIATRIC RENAL TRANSPLANTATION"
Lavjay Butani, MD.
Assistant Professor. Pediatric Nephrology. UC Davis Medical Center. Sacramento. CA, USA

"ALTRUISTIC LIVING DONORS: EXPLORING THE OPTION"
Reginald Y. Gohh, MD, Paul E. Morrissey, MD.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Surgery. Division of Organ Transplantation, Rhode Island Hospital. Brown University School of Medicine. Providence, RI. USA

"IL-2 ANTIBODY INDUCTION ON PEDIATRIC RENAL TRANSPLANTS"
Clotilde Druck Garcia, Viviane Rocha de Barros, Valter Duro Garcia
Pediatric Nephrology Unit- Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio-Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa-Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre - FFFCMPA. Porto Alegre - Brasil

"NEFRECTOMÍA LAPAROSCÓPICA DE DONANTE VIVO"
Dr. Lluis Guirado.
Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona. España

"ETHICS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION - AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE"
Khaja H. Mujtaba Quadri, MD
Asst Dean, Clinical Admin. Prof. of Medicine (Nephrology). Shifa College of Medicine. Islamabad. Pakistan

"CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION: ARE WE ABLE TO DISCRIMINATE CHRONIC REJECTION FROM CHRONIC CNI NEPHROPATHY?"
Rene C. Bakker MD
Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherland

POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS OF RENAL ALLOGRAFTS
Volker Nickeleit, M.D and M.J. Mihatsch MD
Nephropathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA and
Institute for Pathology, University of Basel, Switzerland

OTHERS

"INTERNET COMO BASE DE DATOS MÉDICOS"
Ramón Díaz Alersi MD.
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