Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Where Do We Stand?
While blood pressure has been measured in clinics for over 100 years, we are now living in a time where home blood pressure monitoring is increasingly common. Blood pressure [...]
Interview
Interviews are typically with authors on their recently published AJKD articles.
Dialysis Choices for ESRD Patients and the Caregivers
Dialysis modality preferences of patients with chronic kidney disease and their family caregivers are important and need to be quantified. Do patients prefer less time on [...]
MDRD versus CKD-EPI: Do We Have a Winner?
The estimation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has relied upon the use of mathematical equations primarily based upon the measurement of serum creatinine and other [...]
Kidney Biopsy and Bleeding Complications, Part 2
In the second of two parts, Dr. Gordon (CG), from Boston University Medical Center, continues to discuss his recent meta-analysis on bleeding complications when performing a [...]
Kidney Biopsy and Bleeding Complications, Part 1
In a recent article published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Corapi et al present a meta-analysis of bleeding complications when performing a kidney biopsy. [...]
Educating Patients about CKD: Are We Lagging Behind?
The Medicare Improvement of Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) was initiated in 2010. It allows for nephrology practices to give chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4 Medicare [...]
Center-Level Factors and Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation
It is well known that African Americans have a lower rate of living donor transplantation compared with Caucasians. In a recent article published in the American Journal of [...]
Integrated Nephrology Care: What Does the Future Hold?
Care of the patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is complicated and expensive. Implementation of an integrated care model in nephrology has been shown to improve [...]
Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients
The development of standardized acute kidney injury (AKI) definitions has allowed for a better understanding of AKI, but long term data on patients following the pediatric [...]
World of Nephrology “In a Few Words”
A cognitively impaired man gets a kidney transplant. A patient with anemia rails against the new erythropoietin guidelines. An artist with kidney failure meets a medical [...]