A New Nephrologic Syndrome: Acute Fellowship Insufficiency
Invited commentary by Dr. Warren Kupin The fallout from the nephrology fellowship match this year and its short and long-term consequences are becoming painfully clear to [...]
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Peritoneal Dialysis in Developing Countries
In the article entitled “Peritoneal Dialysis in China: Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Kidney Failure,” Yu et al describe the problematic aspects of ESRD coverage in [...]
NephJC Live at Kidney Week 2014
Join the Nephrology twitter journal club live at ASN Kidney Week 2014. This is hosted by the NephJC founders Drs. Joel Topf and Swapnil Hiremath and sponsored by MedPage [...]
Summary of #NephJC 12 Tweet Chat: Should Patients With Abdominal Pain and Suspected Kidney Stones Have an Initial US or CT?
This comparative effectiveness research article attracted a lot of attention, and has been covered in by the #UroJC crew (who run an extremely successful, asynchronous, [...]
NephJC: CT Scan or Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Suspected Kidney Stones
The next installment of the online twitter journal club for nephrology (#NephJC) is the recently reported paper in NEJM by Smith-Blindman et al that examines how to image [...]
NephJC: A Controlled Trial of Renal Denervation
The NephJC offering this week is the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 renal denervation trial reported in the NEJM. SYMPLICITY HTN-3 was the definitive randomized placebo controlled (sham) [...]
Lead and ESRD: Infographic
Post prepared by Elizabeth Frank from the AJKD Editorial Office. To view the article full-text or PDF (freely available), please visit [...]
Tuesday night is the first Twitter Nephrology Journal Club: #NephJC
The idea of using twitter for journal club was pioneered by Natalie Silva and Fi Douglas, who created Twitter Journal Club. This was a big deal though it seems to have gone [...]
The State of the Blog
Happy New Year! Only a little over a year ago,the American Journal of Kidney Diseases launched eAJKD with the goal of providing the nephrology community with timely, [...]
10th Anniversary of the NKF-KDOQI CKD Guidelines
In the November 2012 (Vol. 60, No. 5) issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, a special series of 24 editorials commemorates the impact of the National Kidney [...]