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Sedentary Behavior and CKD

September 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

‘The average Canadian is slightly less active than a (motionless) fire hydrant’ – Andrew Pipe If this statement is true for the average Canadians, one wonders if it also rings true for our neighbors to the south. Such bombastic rhetoric [read more...]

New Anticoagulants in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Beacon in the Darkness

September 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

A familiar problem. A problem that sits inside an increasingly convoluted landscape of treatment options. Atrial fibrillation and advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): Do we anticoagulate? Which agent to use? How much? We all face these questions [read more...]

Highlights from the September 2018 Issue

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short nontechnical summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will [read more...]

Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease – What are MUC and MOD?

August 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) was first described in 1944 and has many names – medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 and type 2 or familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy type 1 and type 2. Reports in the early [read more...]

Lead Burns Red and Makes You Dead

August 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

Lead as an element has a storied history beyond that of medicine – it has played a major role in the development of civilization itself. The utility of lead metal dates back thousands of years, where its use was prevalent due to the ease by which [read more...]

Sweet Pee: Do SGLT2 Inhibitors Prevent and/or Slow the Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease?

August 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

During NephMadness 2017, the newcomer ‘SGLT2 inhibitors’ team for the Diabetic Nephropathy region surprised the competition and made it all the way to the Filtered Four where it was knocked out by the eventual winner Genes in ESKD Disparity. In [read more...]

Kidney CRISPR: How Close Are We?

August 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene editing is making huge waves in biomedical research. In fact, the lay press is devoting significant coverage to CRISPR as well. See this interesting piece on CRISPR from 60 [read more...]

Highlights from the August 2018 Issue

August 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short nontechnical summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will [read more...]

#NephMadness 2019: Call for Topic Suggestions

August 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Planning for NephMadness* 2019 is in full swing and we want your input! *If you’re still clueless about NephMadness, watch this short explainer video by @KidneyCathy or read NephMadness 101. Last year, we asked the nephrology community to [read more...]

#PathPointer: Congo Red-Positive Always Means Amyloid Deposits, Right?

July 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

Amyloidosis, fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN), and immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) are all characterized by renal deposits with an organized substructure under high power electron microscopy. Traditional nomenclature has categorized these [read more...]

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