SCM15: ACEi/ARBs and AKI: Any Benefit?
Dr. Christian Suarez-Fuentes (CS), from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney [...]
March 2015
SCM15: New Phosphate Binder: Chitosan?
Dr. Mujtaba Hasnain, from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
SCM15: Exit Site Gentamicin Use and PD-related Infections
Dr. Shan Shan Chen (SSC), from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 [...]
SCM15: 10th Annual National Young Investigators Forum
The 10th annual National Young Investigators Forum took place at the NKF 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings where the best original basic and clinical research projects were [...]
SCM15: C4 Dense deposit Disease with TMA
Dr. Arshad Ali (AA), from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
AJKDblog’s Coverage of the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings
For the fourth year, the AJKD Blog will be providing coverage of selected research news and presentations from the National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings. [...]
NephMadness 2015: Cardiorenal • Second Round Results
Sacubitril in HF (PARADIGM-HF) vs Sudden Cardiac Death in ESRD Winner: Sudden Cardiac Death in ESRD 5-2 split PARADIGM-HF represents a potential game changer for the [...]
NephMadness 2015: Infectious Disease • Second Round Results
Vancomycin Renal Toxicity vs Cefepime & Mental Status Changes Winner: Vancomycin Renal Toxicity 5-2 split Seems like we can never get away from vancomyin. Always makes [...]
NephMadness 2015: Genetics • Second Round Results
Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Nephritis vs Epigenetics Winner: Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Nephritis 4-3 split UMOD & MUC1 Nephropathy were unknowns [...]
NephMadness 2015: Obstetric • Second Round Results
sFlt1 in Preeclampsia vs ACOG BP Goal <160/110 in Preeclampsia sFlt1 in Preeclampsia 6-1 split sFlt1 holds promise not just as a diagnostic test but as a possible [...]