Heparin or Citrate: What is the Evidence?
Heparin or citrate? When prescribing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), this question is often encountered. In a recent article appearing in the American Journal of [...]
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Hyponatremia in Cancer Patients: Did We Learn Anything New?
The development of hyponatremia in patients with cirrhosis or heart failure carries a poor prognosis. Does it carry the same implications in patients with cancer? Doshi et [...]
Cardiac Surgery and the Kidney: Can We Predict Acute Kidney Injury?
In this post, Dr. Sevag Demirjian (SD) discusses a study recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases on the development and validation of 4 new models to [...]
Minimal Change Disease
Invited Commentary by Dr. Surya Seshan Minimal change disease (MCD) is the most common cause of steroid-responsive glomerular disease with selective proteinuria. A number of [...]
ANCA-Associated Kidney Disease: Secondary Causes
In this issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases there is an interesting case report on ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis in systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic [...]
Podcast: Genetic Association and Gene-Gene Interaction Analyses in African American Dialysis Patients With Nondiabetic Nephropathy
Come listen to eAJKDs first ever podcast featuring Dr. Kellie Calderon as she interviews Dr. Barry Freedman, one of the authors of Genetic Association and Gene-Gene [...]
Newer Anemia Therapies
The management of anemia associated with kidney disease is undergoing a revolution as the safety of erythropoietin analogs is being challenged by newly recognized dangers [...]
Low Hemoglobins or High ESA Doses: The Controversy Remains
Invited commentary by Dr. Steven Fishbane and Azzour Hazzan In the Jan 2012 issue of the AJKD, Fukuma et al conducted an elegant analysis of ESA dose and hemoglobin (Hgb) [...]
Commentary: Interest in Nephrology: A sad decline!
Interest in nephrology amongst US medical graduates has been steadily decreasing since 2002. This might not be so worrisome if the number of kidney patients was remaining the [...]
Hypertension and Symptomatic Hypokalemia
In this post, Dr. Pantelis Sarafidis (PS) discusses a case in AJKD on hypertension and symptomatic hypokalemia in a patient with simultaneous unilateral stenoses of [...]