AJKD Blog

As we put 2025 to bed and look forward to the new year, we know there is one thing on everybody’s minds:  Soon it will be March again, and time for NephMadness 2026!   This year the tournament will officially begin on Sunday, March 1, 2025. If you want to organize a #NephMadnessParty for your group, now is the time to get it on your group calendar! We can’t wait to see what creative ways of celebrating NephMadness you come up with this year. Not sure how to get started? Here [...]

Hyperphosphatemia remains a major challenge in managing patients with kidney failure and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.  In a Mini-Review recently published in AJKD, authors Ian Da Silva Lugo and Jaime Uribarri discuss how traditional approaches such as dietary phosphate restriction, oral phosphate binders, and dialysis modifications, often provide insufficient control of serum phosphate levels. AJKDBlog’s Interviews Editor, Timothy Yau (@Maximal_Change) sat down [...]

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. Highlights from the December 2025 issue: Intronic and Coding Genetic Variants in Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease Among Israeli Bedouins [...]

Chronic systemic inflammation, triggered by innate immune system activation, is a key driver of both chronic kidney disease (CKD) and associated atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. In a Mini Review recently published in AJKD, authors Nowak and Chonchol discuss evidence of the presence of chronic systemic inflammation in CKD, highlighting novel therapeutics that have recently emerged to target CKD-related chronic inflammation in recently completed and ongoing clinical trials. [...]

Deborah Lee, MD, is a second year nephrology fellow at University of California San Francisco. She completed her medical education at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. She plans to pursue a career in transplant nephrology.  Pascale Khairallah, MD, MS, is a transplant nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her clinical and research interests focus [...]