SCM12: Therapeutics in post surgical AKI
Therapeutics in post-surgical AKI Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD (University of Washington) In our last blog for the 2012 NKF meetings, Dr. Himmelfarb gave a fantastic lecture on [...]
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SCM12: Biomarkers for AKI after Major Surgery
Biomarkers for AKI after Major Surgery Chirag Parikh, MD PhD (Yale University) Dr. Parikh has done incredible work in the area of early AKI biomarkers. In fact, his work [...]
SCM12: Epidemiology of Post operative Acute Kidney Injury
Epidemiology of post-operative AKI Charuhas Thakar, MD (University of Cincinnati) Dr. Thakar started of a great session by putting AKI in proper perspective. A full 1/3 of [...]
SCM12: eAJKD interview with Dr Javier Neyra
Dr. Javier Neyra, from Henry Ford Hospital, discusses his poster for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2012 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM12), De Novo Dipstick Proteinuria [...]
Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients
The development of standardized acute kidney injury (AKI) definitions has allowed for a better understanding of AKI, but long term data on patients following the pediatric [...]
Podcast: Incidence and Consequences of AKI in Kidney Transplant Recipients
In a recent article published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Mehrotra and colleagues explore the epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury (AKI) in kidney [...]
Dosing Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury: What Have We Learned From Clinical Trials?
In this post, Dr. Paul Palevsky (PP) discusses his recent review in American Journal of Kidney Diseases on dosing renal replacement therapy (RRT) in patients with acute [...]
Cardiac Surgery and the Kidney: Can We Predict Acute Kidney Injury?
In this post, Dr. Sevag Demirjian (SD) discusses a study recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases on the development and validation of 4 new models to [...]