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ACTH Gel: Excessive Extravagance But No Evidence

July 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

What would you think about a drug that has been covered in the New York Times, 60 Minutes, CNN, and Forbes? Surely it’s a blockbuster and cures cancer, prevents heart attacks, or perhaps even prevents kidney failure? However, when you hear that [read more...]

#PathPointer: Crescents – A Spectrum of Diseases

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

PathPointers highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These brief and easy-to-read blog posts include real clinical images to demonstrate various biopsy findings. In this PathPointer I’d like to highlight one [read more...]

Peritoneal Dialysis Utilization: How Can We Increase Access?

July 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

The United States Secretary of Health & Human Services, Alex Azar, recently highlighted in a speech at the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Patient Summit the fact that due to misaligned financial incentives, we are paying for kidney [read more...]

Applying Transcriptomics to Fistula Failure – A Novel Approach

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is a unique vascular structure leading to distinctive endothelial insults which may contribute to non-maturation or failure of the access. Up to 50% of AVFs undergo aberrant remodeling leading to stenotic segments, [read more...]

Introducing the 2019-20 AJKD Editorial Interns

July 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

The AJKD editors are excited to continue the Editorial Internship Program for a second year, and thank all the fellows who responded to the recent call for applications. Without further ado, we present the AJKD Editorial Internship Class of 2020: [read more...]

Highlights from the July 2019 Issue

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

NKF Advocacy Efforts to Transform Kidney Care

June 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health priority that must be addressed. On March 4th, 2019, the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, spoke at the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Patient Summit [read more...]

Sickle Cell Disease: Peering Behind the Veil…

June 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

The association between sickle cell disease (SCD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) is well known. A disease of recurrent vascular occlusion due to sickling red cells, the renal risk from such occlusive events is not to be understated. The kidney is [read more...]

#NephMadness 2020: Call for Topic Suggestions

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

It may feel like we just wrapped up NephMadness 2019 but we are already looking ahead to NephMadness 2020! *If you’re still in the dark about NephMadness, watch this short explainer video by @KidneyCathy or read NephMadness 101. We love [read more...]

Muscle Relaxant Use in Dialysis

June 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Most practicing nephrologists have seen cases of baclofen toxicity in patients on dialysis; in severe cases, this can even mimic brain death. Some nephrologists on Twitter (eg @Nephro_Sparks) have taken up the call to educate clinicians about the [read more...]

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