Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Race Effect on the Kidneys
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as the onset of impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy. Its prevalence has been steadily climbing, fueled in large part by [...]
Commentary
Commentaries are short perspectives by experts on AJKD articles or nephrology news.
How Did Northern Ireland Revolutionize Their Living Kidney Donor Transplantation Program?
A recent article published in AJKD by Graham and Courtney describes a quality improvement project in Belfast City Hospital to facilitate living kidney donation. Prior to [...]
ASERTAA: Towards Optimizing Tacrolimus-based Immunosuppression in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients
Tacrolimus was first discovered by scientists of the Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company in a soil sample taken from the foot of Mount Tsukuba in Tokyo. Originally called [...]
Applications Open for the NSMC Internship
The Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship was established in 2015. The goal of the NSMC internship is to cultivate leaders in medicine by instilling [...]
Creatinine Linearity – Connecting the Dots Has Never Been So Complicated
Prediction. My least favorite part of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) clinic visit. “No crystal ball.” “I’m not in a position to guess.” “Only God knows the [...]
And The Search for “Renal Troponin” Continues…
Since early 2000, there have been an explosion of publications in the area of biomarkers for early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI). The nephrology community has long [...]
Old Age and Dialysis: Is It Really the Deadly Cocktail?
“Life is pleasant, Death is peaceful, it’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov Aging is relentless, progressive, and inevitable. With aging comes [...]
I’ll Have A Gin and Tonic; Hold the Tonic
The gin and tonic is a classic cocktail, perfect with a sliver of lime on a hot summer day. But this simple-to-make drink also has a long-storied medical history that is [...]
KDIGO Guidelines on Living Kidney Donors: A Call for A Paradigm Shift
The much-anticipated KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors was recently published. It is available in two versions: a 10-page [...]
Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Nephrolithiasis
As a clinician, it is not uncommon for me to see a patient, a colleague, a friend, or even a family member who had a recent or previous bout of a kidney stone. [...]