AJKD Blog

The Causes and Consequences of Polypharmacy When faced with a patient who has a symptom, or a clinical or even laboratory abnormality, the natural tendency for a physician is to prescribe something, anything, in a genuine [read more...]

PathPointers is a new type of blog post that will highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These blog posts will be brief and easy-to-read, using real clinical images to demonstrate [read more...]

Unilateral renal agenesis has an incidence of 1:2,300 individuals. Patients with unilateral renal agenesis are at increased risk for development of proteinuria, hypertension, and renal insufficiency. A recent systematic [read more...]

One afternoon during my year as Chief Resident, I was asked to cover the resident Clinic at our Veteran’s Affairs (VA) hospital. One of the senior residents presented a patient who had stage 4 CKD. Several weeks prior, he [read more...]