Happy New Year from AJKD!

We’d like to take this opportunity to look back on the top ten AJKDBlog posts of 2024.

Special thanks to the AJKDBlog Commentaries Editor, Pascale Khairallah, and Interviews Editor, Timothy Yau, and to all of our contributors!

from PxHere

1. IgA Nephropathy, The Hope of Tomorrow, Is Here by Yariana Rodriguez and Shane Bobart

Treatment algorithm for IgA nephropathy. Figure 2 from Caster and Lafayette, © National Kidney Foundation.

2. Hyponatremia and the Brain: Ground Rules for Nephrology’s Feistiest Debate by Emmanuel A. Adomako

3. Apixaban vs The World: Which Anticoagulant is Best for A-fib in CKD? by Timothy Yau and Kueiyu Joshua Lin

4. Obesity Primer for Nephrologists: An Interview by Timothy Yau, Alexander Chang, and Evan Zeitler

Incretin production and end-organ effects. The incretin hormones, GIP and GLP-1, are produced in the enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract in response to food ingestion. They act via both direct and indirect mechanisms to reduce appetite and food intake, and have a variety of end-organ effects leading to both weight loss and cardiometabolic benefits (blue boxes in figure). Created with BioRender.com. Figure 2 from Zeitler et al, © National Kidney Foundation.

5. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Needle? The Future of Kidney Transplant Rejection Diagnosis and Monitoring by Muhammad Azam and Saed Shawar

“Invasive vs Non-Invasive Biomarkers in Kidney Transplant.” Image generated by Saed Shawar using DALL-E 3 program. Accessed July 1, 2024.

6. ABCD: A Boost of Hepatitis C Viremic Donors in Current Age of Direct-acting Antiviral Agents (DAA) by Michelle Tran and Sarthak Virmani

Commonly used DAA and their interactions with commonly used immunosuppressive medications. © Tran, Virmani

7. Simple Kidney Cysts Not So Simple After All: Exploring the Connection Between Simple Kidney Cysts and Post-Nephrectomy Kidney Function Decline by George Vasquez Rios

8. Cystatin-C and Cr-Based eGFRs: What Differences Does the Difference Make? by Timothy Yau with Juan-Jesús Carrero and Edouard Fu

(A) Univariate correlation between eGFRcys and eGFRcr, and (B) scatterplot of eGFRcr versus eGFRdiff at baseline. Shown are correlations in a random 1% sample of 1,569 observations. The blue line shows the line of identity, and red line marks eGFRdiff higher and lower than 15 mL/min/1.73 m2. Figure 1 from Carrero et al, © 2023, the authors.

9. Ensuring Kidney Health Equity in the Face of Crises this World Kidney Day by Ranim Razzouk and Bassem Tanios

Walk for Kidneys! A World Kidney Day activity highlighting healthy lifestyle in 2017 (left) and women’s health in 2018 (right) Organized by LSNH President Dr. Robert Najem, and Mrs. Hanadi Mezher, WKD coordinator and European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association Ambassador for Lebanon; and founding President of the Lebanese Nephrology Nurses Association. (Reproduced with permission from LSNH)

10. Vitamin D and Kidney Disease: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Wing-Chi Gigi Yeung

BONUS Honorable Mentions:

• Vitamin Deficiency and Supplementation in CKD: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Angela Yee-Moon Wang
• B-type Natriuretic Peptide and Kidney Function: An Interview by Timothy Yau with Simon B. Ascher

*Note: The Top Ten posts only include posts that published Nov 2023-Oct 2024 and do not include NephMadness posts.

2024 EDITORS’ CHOICE

The editors are delighted to recognize these articles that have been selected to receive the 2024 AJKD Editors’ Choice Award (all articles are freely available until February 1, 2025).