Commentary
Commentaries are short perspectives by experts on AJKD articles or nephrology news.
Kidney disease carries a high burden for individual patients and for the medical system as a whole. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is associated with high mortality and decreased quality of life for many reasons including residual symptoms, pill
[read more...]‘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...]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...]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 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...]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...]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...]Providing kidney transplantation to HIV-positive ESKD patients was until recently considered to be a high-risk endeavour but is now almost routine. It is topical too, with the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, allowing HIV+ to HIV+ transplants,
[read more...]Hypertension (HTN) has long been associated with negative cardiovascular (CV) and renal outcomes, resulting in heart failure, vascular intimal thickening, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and eventually end-stage kidney disease (ESKD); however, there
[read more...]Updates to Hypertension Canada Guidelines have been reviewed on the AJKDBlog in previous years (see 2015, 2016, and 2017). Changes in the 2018 guidelines that were just published are summarized below. Blood Pressure Measurement Automated
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