Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Where Do We Stand?

Photograph by Christopher Tidy

While blood pressure has been measured in clinics for over 100 years, we are now living in a time where home blood pressure monitoring is increasingly common. Blood pressure measurements done by the patient at home or automatically with ambulatory measurement machines are being evaluated as ways to better assess and treat hypertension. A recent […]

Hypertension and Symptomatic Hypokalemia

In this post, Dr. Pantelis Sarafidis (PS) discusses a case in AJKD on hypertension and symptomatic hypokalemia in a patient with simultaneous unilateral stenoses of intrarenal arteries and mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis with Dr. Matthew Sparks, eAJKD web advisory board member. eAJKD: Can you summarize the case report? PS: We describe an unusual presentation of a 25-year-old […]

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