Happy New Year from AJKD!

We are excited to share the top ten AJKDBlog posts of 2023 below.

Special thanks to the AJKDBlog Commentaries Editor, Pascale Khairallah, and Interviews Editor, Timothy Yau.

Congratulations to all the contributors!

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1. Approach to Interpreting Kidney Histology: A Discussion by Timothy Yau with Roger Rodby and William Whittier

2. Incremental Hemodialysis: Can and Should We Do it? by Shabnam Hamidi and Bourne Auguste

3. How Does Aldosterone Activation Contribute to CKD? by Christopher Naranjo and Efren Chavez Morales

Schematic of spironolactone, eplerenone, and finerenone binding with proposed/hypothesized conformational change of helix 12 and summary of respective key pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic characteristics. Reproduced from Kintscher under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Figure 2 from Epstein et al, AJKD.

4. Diuretics in States of Volume Overload: An Interview by Timothy Yau with James Novak

5. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Elena Cervantes

6. Kidneys From Donors With Acute Kidney Injury, Less-Than-Perfect Kidneys? by Jeanne Kamal and Sudipa Chowdhury

7. Treatment Options for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): What Works and What Does Not by Alissar El Chediak

8. Spurious Electrolytes in Malignancy: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Helbert Rondon and Biruh Workeneh

Spurious Electrolyte Disorders. Table 1 from Chowdhury et al, AJKD © National Kidney Foundation.

9. Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Anuja Java and Anna Vinnikova

10. Challenging the Concept of “Benign” Microscopic Hematuria: How Far Do We Go? by Eric Ryan, Vanderlene Liu Kung, and Rupali Avasare

BONUS Honorable Mentions:

• Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Monoclonal Immunoglobulins: Further Evidence Supporting an Association by Miroslav Sekulic, Ibrahim Batal, and Helmut Rennke
• Primary Aldosteronism: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Mario Funes Hernandez and Vivek Bhalla

*Note: The Top Ten posts only include posts that published Nov 2022-Oct 2023 and do not include NephMadness posts.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

We would like to invite blog post submissions related to next year’s World Kidney Day (WKD) campaign theme: “Kidney Health for All: Advancing equitable access to care and optimal medication practice”. Submissions should be between 800-1,200 words and sent to AJKD@pennmedicine.upenn.edu by February 14^th, 2024.