2017

How Did Northern Ireland Revolutionize Their Living Kidney Donor Transplantation Program?

December 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

A recent article published in AJKD by Graham and Courtney describes a quality improvement project in Belfast City Hospital to facilitate living kidney donation. Prior to 2010, this center had low rates of living kidney kidney transplantations, 4.3 [read more...]

ASERTAA: Towards Optimizing Tacrolimus-based Immunosuppression in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients

December 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tacrolimus was first discovered by scientists of the Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company in a soil sample taken from the foot of Mount Tsukuba in Tokyo. Originally called FR000506 and later FK-506, the drug was isolated from the fermentation broth of [read more...]

Applications Open for the NSMC Internship

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship was established in 2015. The goal of the NSMC internship is to cultivate leaders in medicine by instilling confidence, knowledge, competence, and professionalism in the use of social media. [read more...]

Creatinine Linearity – Connecting the Dots Has Never Been So Complicated

December 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Prediction. My least favorite part of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) clinic visit. “No crystal ball.” “I’m not in a position to guess.” “Only God knows the answer to that.” These are all lines I have used to warn patients that my [read more...]

And The Search for “Renal Troponin” Continues…

December 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Since early 2000, there have been an explosion of publications in the area of biomarkers for early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI). The nephrology community has long been cognizant of the fact that serum creatinine (Scr) is a suboptimal [read more...]

Old Age and Dialysis: Is It Really the Deadly Cocktail?

December 1, 2017 // 1 Comment

“Life is pleasant, Death is peaceful, it’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov Aging is relentless, progressive, and inevitable. With aging comes a whole host of physical, mental, and emotional issues, often compounded [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2017: KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates

November 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

As KDIGO Social Media Ambassador, I always make it a point to attend the KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates at Kidney Week. It always provides a nice compendium of updates of KDIGO guidelines. In 2013, KDIGO convened a Controversies Conference [read more...]

Role of Donor Pre-Implantation Biopsies in Kidney Transplantation

November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 various biopsy findings. In [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2017: Late-Breaking and High-Impact Clinical Trial Session

November 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Kidney Week does a lot of reviewing and integrating during the week. The best sessions present old data with a new interpretation so that you can use the information to take better care of patients. But the Late-Breaking and High-Impact Trials [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2017: Serum and Dialysate Electrolytes and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

November 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

One of the last sessions of ASN Kidney Week was “New Methods to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in ESRD Clinical Practice” or, in other words, as Tariq Shafi noted, it seemed appropriate to close out out Kidney Week with a session on [read more...]

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