Commentary
Commentaries are short perspectives by experts on AJKD articles or nephrology news.
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
[read more...]Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face a heightened risk for progression and development of comorbidities due to their longer life expectancy from a young age compared to adults who develop CKD. Many pediatric centers have adopted the KDIGO
[read more...]Using omics techniques to provide comprehensive molecular analysis in an unbiased fashion is a hot topic in medicine. Approaches include genomics (DNA), transcriptomics (RNA), proteomics (proteins), and metabolomics (metabolites). In a recent
[read more...]Qualitative research is a broad methodological approach that uses non-numerical data to understand an individual’s knowledge, motivations, and attitudes toward a problem. If performed rigorously, qualitative research in healthcare can inform
[read more...]The term “lifeline” has frequently been used to describe a hemodialysis vascular access. Whether this lifeline is an arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous graft (AVG), or tunneled dialysis catheter (TDC), a host of complications are
[read more...]“I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care
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