Kidney Week 2012: Quality and Safety in Nephrology
Sharon Anderson, MD An increasing interest in the Nephrology community and the American Society of Nephrology is the quality and safety of nephrology care. “Choosing [...]
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Kidney Week 2012: Career Choices in Nephrology
Mark Rosenberg, MD 1. Over the years, academic faculty in nephrology has been decreasing in the US (by 5%) while the International Medical School graduated Faculty is fairly [...]
Senescence or Frailty? Are Chronic Disease Patients Different?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has long been known to negatively affect an individual’s quality of life. Identifying potentially modifiable risk factors may assist the [...]
RASCAD: To stent or not to stent?
Whether renal revascularization reduces left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with coronary artery disease is uncertain. A randomized trial done by Marcantoni and [...]
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 [...]
Lessons to KEEP
The Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) is a service provided by the National Kidney Foundation to screen individuals for kidney disease. A recent article published as [...]
Ciprofloxacin and Rhabdomyolysis: A New Connection
Myoglobin-associated kidney injury is seen in severe rhabdomyolysis. Although certain drugs have been associated with this injury, ciprofloxacin is not a common agent. A [...]
Podcast: Genetic Association and Gene-Gene Interaction Analyses in African American Dialysis Patients With Nondiabetic Nephropathy
Come listen to eAJKDs first ever podcast featuring Dr. Kellie Calderon as she interviews Dr. Barry Freedman, one of the authors of Genetic Association and Gene-Gene [...]
Cardiac Biomarkers in CKD and ESRD: What to make of them?
Dr. Akshay S. Desai (AD), cardiologist from Harvard Medical School, spoke with Dr Kellie Calderon (eAJKD), eAJKD web advisory board member, on the use of cardiac biomarkers [...]
Sulodexide in Diabetic Nephropathy: Is There a Role for This Novel Agent?
Sulodexide is a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) that has no measurable anticoagulant effect when taken orally. Preliminary studies have shown that sulodexide has a [...]