AKI Biomarkers in Nicaraguan Sugarcane Workers
Mesoamerican Nephropathy is a CKD epidemic in Central America affecting predominantly outdoor agricultural workers. The pattern of injury is a chronic tubulo-interstitial [...]
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Test Your Knowledge: Mesoamerican Nephropathy
AJKD recently published a Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) focusing on the theory of heat stress and exercise-induced uric acid crystalluria as mechanisms of [...]
PPI and Kidney Disease: AIN and Hypomagnesemia
Since the first introduction of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 1989, their high efficacy and low side effect profile has led to their becoming one of the most widely [...]
New Legislation Opens the Doors for Dialysis of Medicare AKI Patients at ESRD Facilities
On June 29th, 2015, the Trade Adjustment Assistance/Trans-Pacific Partnership bill was signed into law by President Obama. So, what do practicing nephrologists need to know [...]
The Yin and Yang of Autophagy in Kidney Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
The components that make up a cell are in constant flux. New proteins are made and old ones are degraded. What happens to these partially degraded or damaged intracellular [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Onco-Nephrology
The overlap of hematology, oncology, and nephrology has led to the creation of a field called Onconephrology. Cancer survivors are living longer and developing chronic kidney [...]
CK, Coenzyme Q10, and Rhabdomyolysis
African Americans have an increased risk of exertional rhabdomyolysis, which is likely to be a genetic predisposition. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat-soluble substance with [...]
Glomerular Diseases and Complement Activation
A recent Core Curriculum by Noris and Remuzzi is on the timely topic of activation of the complement system in glomerular disease. This focuses on our evolving understanding [...]
Test Your Knowledge: HIV and The Kidney
In a quiz published in AJKD, Lum et al (freely available) describe a case of acute kidney injury in a patient with well-controlled HIV infection on highly active [...]
SCM15: ACEi/ARBs and AKI: Any Benefit?
Dr. Christian Suarez-Fuentes (CS), from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney [...]