Nephrology / Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder COST OF MAINTENANCE HEMODIALYSIS IN TAIWAN: ESTIMATION OF LOSS OF HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY AND FINANCIAL BURDEN TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE IN THE KIDNEY CELLS ANALYSIS OF T-WAVE MORPHOLOGY FOR PREDICTION OF LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS FROM THE 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN PATIENTS INITIATING HEMODIALYSIS ASSESSING HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN TAIWANESE PATIENTS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE COMMERCIAL CADAVERIC RENAL TRANSPLANT - AN ETHICAL RATHER THAN MEDICAL ISSUE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF THYROTOXIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS: SPOT URINE CALCIUM TO PHOSPHATE RATIO EARLY INITIATION OF DIALYSIS AND LATE IMPLANTATION OF TENCKHOFF CATHETERS INCREASE HOSPITALIZATION DUE TO PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (PD)-RELATED INFECTION AFTER START OF CHRONIC PD EARLY SURGICAL INTERVENTION FOR CAPD CATHETER-RELATED REFRACTORY PSEUDOMONAS PERITONITIS IN CAPD PATIENTS: A SINGLE CENTER’S EXPERIENCE OVER ONE DECADE. ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1 ON ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: THE POSSIBLE ROLE IN ERYTHROCYTE ASCORBATE RECYCLING EVALUATION OF CARDIAC RISK SCORE AND QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY IN CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS PROGRESSION IN PRIMARY MEMBRANOUS NEPHROPATHY IS ASSOCIATED WITH PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR-1 GENE POLYMORPHISM PROTAMINE-INDUCED HYPOTENSION EPISODE IN UREMIC PATIENTS: INCIDENCE AND ATTRIBUTE RENAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME RISK FACTORS OF EARLY REDIALYSIS AFTER WEANING FROM POSTOPERATIVE ACUTE HEMODIALYSIS THE INFLUENCE OF ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE ON PLASMA HOMOCYSTEINE IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH NORMAL SERUM CREATININE THE RELATIONSHIP OF MALNUTRITION, INFLAMMATION, AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN CHRONIC PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS THE ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT OF THE CALCANEUS IN UREMIC PATIENTS ON HEMODIALYSIS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY TREATMENT WITH CILOSTAZOL, A PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR, IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE MIGHT RETARD RENAL PROGRESSION TUNNEL INFECTION AND ABDOMINAL WALL ABSCESS WITH FISTULA IN PATIENTS ON CHRONIC PERTIONEAL DIALYSIS (PD) ABERRANT ACTIVATION OF THE TNF-a SYSTEM AND PRODUCTION OF FAS AND SCAVENGER RECEPTORS ON MONOCYTES IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE ANEMIA, NOT UREMIA, MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1 ON ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANES IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: POSSIBLE ROLE OF HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1α ELEVATION OF SERUM SECRETORY PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 IN CAPD PATIENTS : A PRELIMINARY STUDY HEATSTROKE –INDUCED RENAL ISCHEMIA AND RENAL DAMAGE AND INVOLVEMENT OF ANGIOTENSIN AND STRESS PROTEIN IN DIABETES MELLITUS. INTRACELLULAR ACIDIFICATION INDUCES NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF SIXTY-SEVEN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS IN TAIWAN MYELOPEROXIDASE SERVES AS A MARKER OF OXIDATIVE STRESS DURING A SINGLE HEMODIALYSIS SESSION USING TWO DIFFERENT BIOCOMPATIBLE DIALYSIS MEMBRANES PROGRESSION AND PATIENT OUTCOME OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE FROM A MAJOR MEDICAL CENTER IN NORTHERN TAIWAN THE EFFECT OF LOW-FLUX AND HIGH-FLUX DIALYSERS ON ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION, OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INSULIN RESISTANCE CYCLOSPORIN A TREATMENT OF STEROID-RESISTANT MASSIVE PROTEINURIA DUE TO CLASS V LUPUS NEPHRITIS DEPRESSION AND SERUM PHOSPHATE CONTROL IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS. PERCUTANEOUS TECHNIQUE TO SET THE TENCKHOFF CATHETER: ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR EXPERIENCE. MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION AND SEVERE CRESCENTIC GLOMERULOPATHY PRESENTING WITH IGA NEPHROPATHY IN A BLACK ADULT ROLE OF RENAL AUTOTRANSPLANTATION IN THE LOIN-PAIN HEMATURIA SYNDROME