Meeting Coverage
Meeting coverage of nephrology and other conferences highlighting select research news and presentations.
Hypertension Canada’s 6th annual Canadian Hypertension Congress (#CHC16) is being held from Oct 19-21 2016 in Montreal. AJKD Blog will be providing some highlights from the
[...]Hypertension Canada’s 6th annual Canadian Hypertension Congress (#CHC16) is being held from Oct 19-21 2016 in Montreal. AJKD Blog will be providing some highlights from the
[...]One of the ATC concurrent sessions was dedicated to novel immunosuppressants. Here is a brief breakdown of the session. Dr. Muhbacher presented Phase 1 results of a novel
[...]The new kidney allocation system (KAS) began December 2014. As previously blogged, key strategic goals of the KAS include more equity for highly sensitized patients,
[...]Highly sensitized patients are among the most difficult to transplant and are plagued by early rejection and graft loss. Currently, most immunosuppressive agents are
[...]The investigators of the SIMCER study set out to answer this very question. The incidence of stage 4 CKD 5 years after kidney transplant ranges from 7-21%. Up to 60% of
[...]The American Transplant Congress (ATC) is the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation. This year
[...]A special session at the #CSN16 was a review of recently published, clinically relevant research in the nephrology world. It was indeed challenging for the two speakers to
[...]The Canadian Organ Replacement Registry (CORR) is the Canadian version of the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). Every CSN, there is an update on data produced at CORR
[...]Of the many interesting sessions at #CSN16 on day 2, the one organized in partnership with the Canadian Association of Nephrology Administrators (CANA) was quite intriguing
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