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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

#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 [...]

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 [...]

#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 [...]

#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 [...]

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