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Summary of #NephJC 12 Tweet Chat: Should Patients With Abdominal Pain and Suspected Kidney Stones Have an Initial US or CT?

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

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

October 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

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

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

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

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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

April 28, 2014 // 1 Comment

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

January 1, 2013 // 0 Comments

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

November 13, 2012 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Announcing eAJKD: The Official Blog of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases

November 7, 2011 // 0 Comments

The American Journal of Kidney Diseases would like to officially welcome you to our new blog, eAJKD. The blog is being led by Kenar Jhaveri, MD and a team of nephrologists [...]