Kidney Week 2014: KDIGO Guidelines and Conferences
Day 1 of ASN Kidney Week. November 12, 2014 Thursday. This is the day that the KDIGO App for the iPhone was released. I am proud to have been part of the team involved with [...]
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Kidney Week 2014: Membranous Nephropathy
In the Friday November 14th 2014 session “Primary and Secondary Membranous Nephropathy”, Dr. Heather Reich from Toronto General Hospital talked about the value of the [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Endothelin 1 Levels and Reduced Kidney Function amongst African Americans
Thursday Poster Sessions Endothelin 1 is associated with important vasoconstriction and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of CKD. In this study, amongst 5200 African [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Preserving Residual Kidney Function in ESRD
In the Thursday November 13th session “Are We Missing the Achilles Heel in Hemodialysis Survival?”, Dr. Anthony Bleyer presented an interesting discussion of the [...]
Kidney Week 2014: New Drug for Hyperkalemia
Do you like Kayexalate®? Do you like hyperkalemia? Do you like having to stop renin angiotensin system (RAAS) blockade in patients with diabetes because of hyperkalemia? If [...]
Kidney Week 2014: The Kidney-Liver Service
The first two talks of this session were by Robert Schrier on hepatorenal syndrome and by Anthony Chang on bile cast nephropathy Dr. Schrier reviewed the patho-physiology of [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Social Media Spotlight
Kidney Week 2014 featured a fantastic social media special session. Social media is emerging as great tool for kidney care specialists to exchange ideas and rapidly discuss [...]
eAJKD’s Coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2014
For the third year, eAJKD will be providing coverage of select research news and presentations from the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week. This year’s [...]
A Conversation with Dr. Andrew S. Levey, 2013 Belding H. Scribner Awardee
The American Society of Nephrology presented the 2013 Belding H. Scribner Award to Dr. Andrew S. Levey, AJKD’s Editor-in-Chief, at this year’s Kidney Week. As described [...]
Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of Kidney Week 2013
Check out all of the coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2013 Kidney Week in Atlanta, Georgia, by eAJKD’s Kenar Jhaveri, Joel Topf, Magdalena Madero, Craig [...]