Postcontrast AKI in Pediatrics: Not Just Little Adults
Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients. Iodinated contrast has often been implicated as a [...]
Commentary
Commentaries are short perspectives by experts on AJKD articles or nephrology news.
RAAS Blockade in Advanced CKD: A Serpentine Path
It is not a coincidence that salt makes food taste so much better and that women may crave it during pregnancy. Sodium is the core of our extracellular volume, an ultimate [...]
Portable and Implantable Artificial Kidneys: AWAK, WAK, and IAK, oh my!
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 [...]
Sedentary Behavior and CKD
‘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 [...]
New Anticoagulants in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Beacon in the Darkness
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 [...]
Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease – What are MUC and MOD?
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 [...]
Lead Burns Red and Makes You Dead
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 [...]
Sweet Pee: Do SGLT2 Inhibitors Prevent and/or Slow the Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease?
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 [...]
Kidney CRISPR: How Close Are We?
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene editing is making huge waves in biomedical research. In fact, the lay press is devoting significant [...]
The Evolution of Kidney Transplantation in HIV-Positive Patients
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 [...]