Recent Publications

Cao Y, Schmitz JL, Yang J, Hogan SL, Bunch D, Hu Y, Jennette CE, Berg EA, Arnett FC Jr, Jennette JC ,Falk RJ, Preston GA. DRB1*15 Allele Is a Risk Factor for PR3-ANCA Disease in African Americans. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 May 26. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract

Stern AB, Stewart HD, Singh HK, Kshirsagar AV. Pink urine after propofol anesthesia. Kidney Int. 2010 Dec;78(11):1193. 

Chand DH, Stewart H, de Ferris ME. Neonatal Disorders. In: Chand DH, & Valentini RP. Clinician’s Manual of Pediatric Nephrology. World Scientific Books; 2011.

Berden AE, Ferrario F, Hagen EC, Jayne DR, Jennette JC, Joh K, Neumann I, Noël LH, Pusey CD, Waldherr R, Bruijn JA, Bajema IM. Histopathologic classification of ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 21, 1628–1636 (2010)

Layton JB, Hogan SL, Jennette CE, Kenderes B, Krisher J, Jennette JC, McClellan WM. Discrepancy between Medical Evidence Form 2728 and Renal Biopsy for Glomerular Diseases. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Edwards, John C. What's a CLIC doing in the podocyte? Kidney Int. 2010 78: 831-833; 10.1038/ki.2010.238. Full text

Jennette JC, Falk RJ. Commentary: The rise and fall of horror autotoxicus and forbidden clones. Kidney Int. 2010 Sep;78(6):533-5. Abstract

Layton JB, Hogan SL, Jennette CE, Kenderes B, Krisher J, Jennette JC, McClellan WM. Discrepancy between Medical Evidence Form 2728 and Renal Biopsy for Glomerular Diseases. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print]. Abstract

Neyhart CD, McCoy L, Rodegast B, Gilet CA, Roberts C, Downes K. A new nursing model for the care of patients with chronic kidney disease: the UNC Kidney Center Nephrology Nursing Initiative. Nephrol Nurs J. 2010 Mar-Apr;37(2):
121-30. Abstract

Jennette CE, Vupputuri S, Hogan SL, Shoham DA, Falk RJ, Harward DH. Community perspectives on kidney disease and health promotion from at-risk populations in rural North Carolina, USA. Rural Remote Health 2010; 10 (2). Full text

Andrew S. Bomback, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Adam T. Whaley-Connell, Shu-Cheng Chen, Suying Li, Philip J. Klemmer, Peter A. McCullough, George L. Bakris. Racial Differences in Kidney Function Among Individuals With Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: Results From the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2010; 55 (3), Suppl. 2, Pages S4-S14. Abstract

Vimal K. Derebail, Patrick H. Nachman, Nigel S. Key, Heather Ansede, Ronald J. Falk, and Abhijit V. Kshirsagar. High Prevalence of Sickle Cell Trait in African Americans with ESRD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2010; 21 413-417. Abstract

Harward DH, Bomback AS, Jennette CE, Amamoo MA, Falk RJ. The Kidney Education Outreach Program (KEOP)’s Community-based Screenings:  Participants’ Demographics and Screening Results. North Carolina Medical Journal 2009;70 (6). Full text

Caroline Jennette, Vimal Derebail, Judy Baldwin, and Sandra Cameron. Renal Replacement Therapy and Barriers to Choice: Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Explore the Patient’s Perspective.  Journal of Nephrology Social Work 2009; 32.

Melanie S. Joy, PharmD, Debbie S. Gipson, MD, MSPH, Leslie Powell, RN, CPNP, Jacqueline MacHardy, BS, J. Charles Jennette, MD, Suzanne Vento, RN, Cynthia Pan, MD, Virginia Savin, MD, Allison Eddy, MD, Agnes B. Fogo, MD, Jeffrey B. Kopp, MD, Daniel Cattran, MD, FRCPC, and Howard Trachtman, MD. Phase 1 Trial of Adalimumab in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS): II. Report of the FONT (Novel Therapies for Resistant FSGS) Study Group. American Journal of Kidney Disease 2009;55:50-60

Gibson KL, Gipson DS, Massengill SA, Dooley MA, Primack WA, Ferris MA, Hogan SL. Predictors of Relapse and End Stage Kidney Disease in Proliferative Lupus Nephritis: Focus on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2009;4 1962-1967 Abstract

Sofia Lionaki, Susan L Hogan, Caroline E Jennette, Yichun Hu, Julie B Hamra, J Charles Jennette, Ronald J Falk and Patrick H Nachman. The clinical course of ANCA small-vessel vasculitis on chronic dialysis. Kidney Int 2009 76: 644-651.

Amy K. Mottl, Suma Vupputuri, Shelley A. Cole, Laura Almasy, Harald H.H. Göring, Vincent P. Diego, Sandra Laston, Nawar Shara, Elisa T. Lee, Lyle G. Best, Richard R. Fabsitz, Jean W. MacCluer, Jason G. Umans, and Kari E. North. Linkage Analysis of Albuminuria. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009;20 1597-1606
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Gerald B. Appel, Gabriel Contreras, Mary Anne Dooley, Ellen M. Ginzler, David Isenberg, David Jayne, Lei-Shi Li, Eduardo Mysler, Jorge Sánchez-Guerrero, Neil Solomons, David Wofsy the Aspreva Lupus Management Study Group. Mycophenolate Mofetil versus Cyclophosphamide for Induction Treatment of Lupus Nephritis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009;20 1103-1112.

Andrew S. Bomback, Vimal K. Derebail, Julie G. McGregor, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Ronald J. Falk, and Patrick H. Nachman. Rituximab Therapy for Membranous Nephropathy: A Systematic Review. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol published March 11, 2009 as doi:10.2215/CJN.05231008.

Abhijit V Kshirsagar, Ronald G Craig, Kevin L Moss, James D Beck, Steven Offenbacher, Peter Kotanko, Philip J Klemmer, Maki Yoshino, Nathan W Levin, Julie K Yip, Khalid Almas, Eva M Lupovici, Len A Usvyat & Ronald J Falk. Periodontal disease adversely affects the survival of patients with end-stage renal disease. Kidney Int 2009 75: 746-751.

Adrian Schreiber, Hong Xiao, J. Charles Jennette, Wolfgang Schneider, Friedrich C. Luft, and Ralph Kettritz. C5a Receptor Mediates Neutrophil Activation and ANCA-Induced Glomerulonephritis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009;20 289-298.

Bomback AS, Kshirsagar AV, Klemmer PJ. Renal aspirin: will all patients with chronic kidney disease one day take spironolactone? Nat Clin Pract Nephrol. February 2009; 5(2): 75-75. Full text

Harsharan K. Singh, Kenneth A. Andreoni, Victoria Madden, Karin True, Randal Detwiler, Karen Weck, and Volker Nickeleit. Presence of Urinary Haufen Accurately Predicts Polyomavirus Nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol published January 21, 2009 as doi:10.1681/ASN.2008010117 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Amy O. Staples, Craig S. Wong, Jodi M. Smith, Debbie S. Gipson, Guido Filler, Bradley A. Warady, Karen Martz, and Larry A. Greenbaum. Anemia and Risk of Hospitalization in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol;448-56. Full text

Joy MS, Gipson DS, Dike M, Powell L, Thompson A, Vento S, Eddy A, Fogo AB, Kopp JB, Cattran D, Trachtman H. 2009. Phase I trial and rosiglitazone in FSGS: I. Report of the FONT study group. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 4(1).

Abhijit V. Kshirsagar; Heejung Bang; Andrew S. Bomback; Suma Vupputuri; David A. Shoham; Lisa M. Kern; Philip J. Klemmer; Madhu Mazumdar; Phyllis A. August. A Simple Algorithm to Predict Incident Kidney Disease. Arch Intern Med. 2008; 168:2466-2473.

Vizjak A, Ferluga D, Rozic M, Hvala A, Lindic J, Levart TK, Jurcic V, Jennette JC. Pathology, Clinical Presentations, and Outcomes of C1q Nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 2008;19 2237-2244.

Jiajin Yang, David J Bautz, Sofia Lionaki, Susan L Hogan, Hyunsook Chin, Roland M Tisch, John L Schmitz, Barrak M Pressler, J Charles Jennette , Ronald J Falk & Gloria A Preston. ANCA patients have T cells responsive to complementary PR-3 antigen. Kidney Int 2008 74: 1159-1169.

Amy K Mottl, Suma Vupputuri, Shelley A Cole, Laura Almasy, Harald H H Göring, Vincent P Diego, Sandra Laston, Nora Franceschini, Nawar M Shara, Elisa T Lee, Lyle G Best, Richard R Fabsitz, Jean W MacCluer, Jason G Umans & Kari E North. Linkage analysis of glomerular filtration rate in American Indians. Kidney Int 2008 74: 1185-1191; advance online publication, August 13, 2008; 10.1038/ki.2008.410.

Donna O. Bunch, Jonathan S. Silver, Melanie C. Majure, Pamela Sullivan, David A. Alcorta, Hyunsook Chin, Susan L. Hogan, Yoshi I. Lindstrom, Stephen H. Clarke, Ronald J. Falk, and Patrick H. Nachman. Maintenance of Tolerance by Regulation of Anti-myeloperoxidase B Cells. J Am Soc Nephrol 2008;19 1763-1773. Full text

Archdeacon P, Detwiler RK. Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7 (BMP7): A Critical Role in Kidney Development and a Putative Modulator of Kidney Injury. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease 2008 Jul, 13(3): 314-320.

Ferris M, Hogan SL, Chin H, Shoham DA, Gipson DS, Gibson K, Yilmaz S, Falk RJ, Jennette JC. Obesity, Albuminuria, and Urinalysis Findings in US Young Adults from the Add Health Wave III Study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007 2: 1207-1214.

Falk RJ, Hamm LL, Josephson MA, Adler S, Singh AK. Nephrology Quiz & Questionnaire. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007 2: 1375-1388.

Lionaki S, Hogan SL, Falk, RJ, Joy MS, Chin H, Jennette CE, Jennette JC, Nachman PH. Association of thyroid disease and its treatment with ANCA small-vessel vasculitis: a case control study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007; [Epub ahead of print] Full text

Alcorta DA, Barnes DA, Dooley MA, Sullivan P, Jonas B, Liu Y, Lionaki S, Reddy CB, Chin H, Dempsey AA, Jennette JC, Falk RJ. Leukocyte gene expression signatures in antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody and lupus glomerulonephritis.Kidney Int. 2007 Aug 1; [Epub ahead of print]

Vupputuri S, Jennette CE. The Burden of Kidney Disease in North Carolina, 2007. University of North Carolina Kidney Center, Chapel Hill, July 2007.

Lionaki S, Falk RJ. Removing Antibody and Preserving Glomeruli in ANCA Small-Vessel Vasculitis.J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007 Jul;18(7):1987-9.

Astern JM, Pendergraft WF 3rd, Falk RJ, Jennette JC, Schmaier AH, Mahdi F, Preston GA.Myeloperoxidase interacts with endothelial cell-surface cytokeratin 1 and modulates bradykinin production by the plasma Kallikrein-Kinin system. Am J Pathol. 2007 Jul;171(1):349-60.

Joy MS, Karagiannis PC, Peyerl FW. Outcomes of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease and the direct costs of treatment. J Manag Care Pharm. 2007 Jun;13(5):397-411.

Astern JM, Pendergraft WF 3rd, Falk RJ, Jennette JC, Schmaier AH, Mahdi F, Preston GA. Myeloperoxidase Interacts with Endothelial Cell-Surface Cytokeratin 1 and Modulates Bradykinin Production by the Plasma Kallikrein-Kinin System. Am J Pathol. 2007 May 3 [Epub ahead of print]

Slickers J, Duquette P, Hooper S, Gipson D. Clinical predictors of neurocognitive deficits in children with chronic kidney disease. Pediatr Nephrol. 2007 Apr;22(4):565-72.

Joy MS, Hogan SL, Thompson BD, Finn WF, Nickeleit V. Cytochrome P450 3A5 expression in the kidneys may modulate calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantion March 2007 [Epub ahead of print]

Joy MS, Candiani C, Vaillencort B, Chin H, Hogan SL, Falk RJ. Re-engineering Clinical Operations in a Medical Practice to Optimize the Management of Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease. Pharmacotherapy 2007;27(5):734-44.

Hogan SL, Vupputuri S, Guo X, Cai J, Colindres RE, Heiss G, Coresh J. Association of Cigarette Smoking with Albuminuria in the United States: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Renal Failure.29:133-142, 2007

Bang H,Vupputuri S,Shoham DA,Klemmer PJ,Falk RJ,Mazumdar M,Gipson D,Colindres RE, Kshirsagar AV. SCreening for Occult REnal Disease (SCORED): A Simple Prediction Model for Chronic Kidney Disease. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:374-81.

Hogan SL, Cooper GS, Savitz DA, Nylander-French, LA, Parks CG, Chin H, Jennette CE, Lionaki S, Jennette JC, Falk RJ. Association of Silica Exposure with ANCA Small Vessel Vasculitis: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007;2:290-299.

Shoham D, Vupputuri S, Diez Roux A, Kaufman J,Coresh J, Kshirsagar A, Zeng D, Heiss G. Kidney Disease in Life-Course Socioeconomic Context:The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Am J Kidney Dis. 2007; 49:217-226.