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Kidney Transplant Clinicians’ Perceptions of Palliative Care: An Interview

January 24, 2024 // 1 Comment

Kidney transplant patients experience physical and psychological suffering in the context of their illnesses that may be amenable to palliative care. However, palliative care [...]

Kidney Cancer Risk Equation: An Interview

October 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

Nephrectomy is the mainstay of treatment for individuals with localized kidney cancer. However, surgery can potentially result in the loss of kidney function or in kidney [...]

Nephrolithiasis: An Interview

October 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

Kidney stone disease, also known as nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a disorder in which urinary solutes precipitate to form aggregates of crystalline material in the [...]

Hepatitis C Treatment in Kidney Transplantation: An Interview

October 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has made transplantation of kidneys from [...]

Primary Aldosteronism: An Interview

October 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

Primary aldosteronism is woefully underdiagnosed as a cause of hypertension and end-organ damage. In a recent Review published in AJKD, Mario Funes Hernandez and Vivek Bhalla [...]

“Honoring My Father’s Legacy”: An Interview

September 13, 2023 // 1 Comment

In A Few Words is a recurring AJKD feature that highlights the diverse stories that deﬁne kidney disease. In a recent piece, Dr Mohamed Hassanein reflected on his [...]

Hyperkalemia and Potassium Binders: A Panel Discussion

September 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

In a recent Original Investigation published in AJKD, David Bushinsky and colleagues characterized the effect of patiromer on serum phosphorus in patients with CKD, [...]

Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy: An Interview

June 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), a pathological lesion observed in a wide spectrum of diseases, is triggered by endothelial injury and/or dysfunction. In a recent Review [...]

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: An Interview

May 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

In a recent Core Curriculum published in AJKD, C. Elena Cervantes, Evan M. Bloch, and C. John Sperati discuss therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) from the perspective of a [...]

AJKD Author Interview – CHIP with Dr. Caitlyn Vlasschaert

February 21, 2023 // 0 Comments

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined by the age-related ontogenesis of expanded leukemogenic variants indicative of a genetically distinct clonal [...]