AJKD Blog

The term “lifeline” has frequently been used to describe a hemodialysis vascular access. Whether this lifeline is an arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous graft (AVG), or tunneled dialysis catheter (TDC), a host of [read more...]

“I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, [read more...]

A young man was treated with chemotherapy for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) involving the kidney, liver, and lungs. After 2 cycles, PET imaging showed resolution of tumor foci in the liver and lungs, but a persistent [read more...]

“Those essential moral questions that plague the sufferer of serious, disabling illness – ‘Why me?  Why now?  How can I go on with my life?’ and even ‘Who am I now?’ – are precisely the ones biomedicine [read more...]