Simple Kidney Cysts Not So Simple After All: Exploring the Connection Between Simple Kidney Cysts and Post-Nephrectomy Kidney Function Decline

August 28, 2024 // 0 Comments

Dr. George Vasquez Rios (@GeorgeVasquezR2) is a graduate of the clinician-scientist track in Nephrology and Glomerular Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [...]

Hyponatremia and the Brain: Ground Rules for Nephrology’s Feistiest Debate

August 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

Emmanuel Adomako @EAAdomako is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and [...]

Mendelian Randomization: A Better Alternative to Randomized Clinical Trials in Nephrology?

August 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

Dr. Rachel Shulman @shulman_rachel obtained her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently a clinical and research fellow pursuing a Master of [...]

Vitamin Deficiency and Supplementation in CKD: An Interview

August 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), including those receiving dialysis, may be at increased risk of developing vitamin deficiencies due to anorexia, poor dietary [...]

Highlights from the August 2024 Issue

August 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic [...]

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Needle? The Future of Kidney Transplant Rejection Diagnosis and Monitoring

July 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

Dr. Muhammad J. Azam is a Transplant Nephrology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He completed his Internal Medicine and Nephrology training from Health [...]

B-type Natriuretic Peptide and Kidney Function: An Interview

July 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

With uncertainty as to how intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering impacts kidney outcomes, novel approaches are needed to assess kidney disease risk during hypertension [...]

Introducing the 2024-25 AJKD Editorial Interns

July 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

As we enter year seven of the AJKD Editorial Internship Program, the editors were once again delighted by the many qualified applicants who responded to our recent call for [...]

Highlights from the July 2024 Issue

July 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic [...]

Plants, Kidney Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from CRIC

June 27, 2024 // 0 Comments

Shivam Joshi @sjoshiMD is an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and practices at the Orlando VA Medical Center. He has a [...]

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Simple Kidney Cysts Not So Simple After All: Exploring the Connection Between Simple Kidney Cysts and Post-Nephrectomy Kidney Function Decline