#NKFClinicals 2018: The Promise of PROMs
Patient-Reported Outcomes: A New Era in Research and Clinical Care (April 12, 2018) Earlier this month, patient-reported outcomes (PROMs), a topic which has seen a timely [...]
Meeting Coverage
Meeting coverage of nephrology and other conferences highlighting select research news and presentations.
#NKFClinicals 2018: My Dialysis Patient Is Pregnant. What Should I Do?
Obstetric Nephrology: A Case-Based Approach Session (April 11, 2018) Moderator: Mala Sachdeva OB Nephrology session to start @HofstraKidney Mala Sachdeva #NKFClinicals [...]
#NKFClinicals 2018: A Spicy Debate – Is 2.3 grams/day The Correct Target for Daily Sodium Intake?
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 [...]
#NKFClinicals 2018: Electrolyte Artifacts Are Most Common in Sodium and Potassium Disorders
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 [...]
#KIDNEYcon 2018: Rocks Rock Little Rock
Saturday at KIDNEYcon 2018 continued with a session focusing on nephrolithiasis. This featured a wide variety of lesser known topics including the exposome, neglected [...]
#KIDNEYcon 2018: AKI and Liver Disease
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 [...]
#KidneyWk 2017: KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates
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 [...]
#KidneyWk 2017: Late-Breaking and High-Impact Clinical Trial Session
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 [...]
#KidneyWk 2017: Serum and Dialysate Electrolytes and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
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 [...]
#KidneyWk 2017 Social Wrap-Up
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 [...]