January 2012

Dosing Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury: What Have We Learned From Clinical Trials?

January 31, 2012 // 3 Comments

In this post, Dr. Paul Palevsky (PP) discusses his recent review in American Journal of Kidney Diseases on dosing renal replacement therapy (RRT) in patients with acute [...]

Heparin or Citrate: What is the Evidence?

January 26, 2012 // 1 Comment

Heparin or citrate? When prescribing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), this question is often encountered. In a recent article appearing in the American Journal of [...]

Hyponatremia in Cancer Patients: Did We Learn Anything New?

January 24, 2012 // 0 Comments

The development of hyponatremia in patients with cirrhosis or heart failure carries a poor prognosis. Does it carry the same implications in patients with cancer? Doshi et [...]

Cardiac Surgery and the Kidney: Can We Predict Acute Kidney Injury?

January 19, 2012 // 2 Comments

In this post, Dr. Sevag Demirjian (SD) discusses a study recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases on the development and validation of 4 new models to [...]

Minimal Change Disease

January 18, 2012 // 1 Comment

Invited Commentary by Dr. Surya Seshan Minimal change disease (MCD) is the most common cause of steroid-responsive glomerular disease with selective proteinuria. A number of [...]

ANCA-Associated Kidney Disease: Secondary Causes

January 17, 2012 // 0 Comments

In this issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases there is an interesting case report on ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis in systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic [...]

Podcast: Genetic Association and Gene-Gene Interaction Analyses in African American Dialysis Patients With Nondiabetic Nephropathy

January 12, 2012 // 1 Comment

Come listen to eAJKDs first ever podcast featuring Dr. Kellie Calderon as she interviews Dr. Barry Freedman, one of the authors of Genetic Association and Gene-Gene [...]