Meeting Coverage
Meeting coverage of nephrology and other conferences highlighting select research news and presentations.
PLEASE PASS THE SALT – OR NOT? DEBATE ON SODIUM INTAKE (April 12, 2018) This promised to be fun and interesting – and it was. The session started off with a great lecture from a dietician, Patty Willms, on strategies to reduce salt intake.
[read more...]Editor’s Note: The National Kidney Foundation’s 2018 Spring Clinical Meetings was recently held April 10-14 in Austin, Texas. This is the first post of our meeting coverage for #NKFClinicals. Acid-base and Electrolyte Cases Session (April
[read more...]Saturday at KIDNEYcon 2018 continued with a session focusing on nephrolithiasis. This featured a wide variety of lesser known topics including the exposome, neglected analytes on the 24-hour urine collection, and bread and butter topics such as
[read more...]KIDNEYcon returns for its 3rd year in 2018, hosted by UAMS in Little Rock, Arkansas. This year, morning workshops covered a range of options including interventional nephrology, ultrasound training, kidney biopsy, fluid/electrolyte/acid-base
[read more...]As KDIGO Social Media Ambassador, I always make it a point to attend the KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates at Kidney Week. It always provides a nice compendium of updates of KDIGO guidelines. In 2013, KDIGO convened a Controversies Conference
[read more...]Kidney Week does a lot of reviewing and integrating during the week. The best sessions present old data with a new interpretation so that you can use the information to take better care of patients. But the Late-Breaking and High-Impact Trials
[read more...]One of the last sessions of ASN Kidney Week was “New Methods to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in ESRD Clinical Practice” or, in other words, as Tariq Shafi noted, it seemed appropriate to close out out Kidney Week with a session on
[read more...]Kidney Week represents so many things – a time to brush up on knowledge, hear about late breaking information, engage with science and scientists, and so much more. I always leave feeling inspired by what is happening in nephrology. It also
[read more...]Dr. Bhupindar Singh is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine and Executive Director of Research and Medical Affairs for ZS Pharma. He discusses his late-breaking abstract, Hyperkalemia and Serum Potassium
[read more...]The 12th Annual National Young Investigators Forum was held on April 18 at the 2017 NKF Spring Clinical Meetings in Orlando, FL. After a day of presentations in clinical research and basic science, the judges picked 3 winners from each category.
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