2015 Spring Clinical Meetings

Recap of AJKDblog’s coverage of the NKF’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings

March 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Missed anything at the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings? Check out AJKDblog’s coverage of the meeting below! C4 Dense deposit Disease with TMA [...]

SCM15: AVF and AVG: Maturation First

March 29, 2015 // 1 Comment

Dr. James Harms (JH), from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical [...]

SCM15: Do Nephrologists Know How to Manage Pregnant Patients on Dialysis?

March 29, 2015 // 1 Comment

Dr. Mala Sachdeva, from Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical [...]

SCM15: Volume First

March 29, 2015 // 1 Comment

Topic: Volume First (session was on March 28, 2015) Drs. Steven Brunelli, Rajiv Agarwal and myself discussed the importance of volume overload in patients on long-term [...]

SCM15: Hyponatremia and Vaptan Use

March 28, 2015 // 1 Comment

NKF Meeting: Saturday March 28, 2015 Session: Hyponatremia and Vaptan Use Today, Drs. Biff Palmer, Richard Sterns, and myself provided an overview of hyponatremia and [...]

SCM15: Acute Coronary Syndrome in CKD and ESRD

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dr. Marc Saad (MS), from Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]

SCM15: Magnesium and ESRD – Is There a Risk?

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dr. Lin Li (LL), from UC Irvine, Orange, CA, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM15), Hypomagnesemia and Risk of [...]

SCM15: CMS & the Future Incentive Scheme for Medicine

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

I attended Dr. Shari Ling’s presentation on CMS and the future incentive scheme for medicine, including CMS’ role in setting benchmarks for dialysis units. [...]

SCM15: Plasmapheresis and Cast Nephropathy: Does It Help?

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dr. Carlos Claudio-Rodriguez (CC), from the University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring [...]

SCM15: Renal Denervation… Is the Game Over?

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

In today’s session on hot topics in hypertension, Debbie Cohen reviewed the early promise and perplexing failure of renal denervation. It made so much sense — [...]