Vascular disease and atherosclerosis in uremia - Gerard M. London; malnutrition and chronic inflammation as risk factors for cardiovascular disease in chronic renal failure - Peter Stenvinkel; contextual issues in comparing outcomes and care processes for ESRD patients around the world - Donal Reddan, Lynda Anne Szczech, Peter J. Conlon et al; should the hematocrit be normalized in dialysis and in pre-ESRD patients? Iain C. Macdougall; should the hematocrit (hemoglobin) be normalized in pre-ESRD or dialysis patients? yes! - Anatole Besarab, Mohammad Asim Aslam; the role of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis for the early initiation of dialysis - Gerald Schulman; peritoneal dialysis should be considered as the first line of renal replacement therapy for most ESRD patients - John M. Burkart; technology - tools or toys, is it economically feasible with; current reimbursement? the case in favor - James Tattersall a simplified method for adequate hemodialysis - Werner Kleophas, Gangolf Backus; electrolyte balancing - modern techniques and outcome - Francesco Locatelli, Celestina Manzoni, Salvatore Di Filippo; manifestations of oxidant stress in uremia - Jonathan Himmelfarb, Ellen McMonagle; daily hemodialysis - is it a complex therapy with unproven benefits? - Andreas Pierratos; daily hemodialysis is a complex therapy with unproven benefits - Frank A. Gotch; interdialytic weight gain and dry weight - Nathan W. Levin, Fansan Zhu, Marcia Keen; acute dialysis quality initiative - Claudio Ronco, John Kellum, Ravindra L. Mehta; indications for dialysis in the ICU - renal replacement vs. renal support - Ravindra L. Mehta; design issues for clinical trials in acute renal failure - Robert Star; prescription of adequate renal replacement in critically ill patients - E.P. Paganini, N.S. Kanagasundaram, B. Larive, T. Greene; validation of the blood temperature monitor for extracorporeal thermal energy balance during in vitro continuous hemodialysis - Shahriar Rahmati, Federico Ronco, Margaret Spittle, Alice T. Morris et al; two years' experience with Dialockr and CLSTM (a new antimicrobial lock solution) - Klaus Sodemann, Hans-D. Polaschegg, Beate Feldmer; sorbent augmented dialysis - minor addition or major advance in therapy? - James F. Winchester, Claudio Ronco, James A. Brady et al; first clinical experience with an adjunctive hemoperfusion device designed specifically to remove 2-microglobulin in hemodialysis - Claudio Ronco, Alessandra Brendolan, James F. Winchester et al.
