Test Your Knowledge: Kidney Stones
Kidney stones are a common, “bread and butter” condition encountered by nephrologists in clinical practice. In the United States, up to 16% of men and 8% of [...]
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From Infections to Chronic Kidney Disease: Why Nephrologists Need to Pay Heed
The nephrology trainees in the US (and around most of the developed world) are taught to look at chronic kidney disease (CKD) as the product of the increasing disease burden [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Magnesium – The Forgotten Star of Dialysis Patients’ Health
I once watched a profoundly meditative video on YouTube. It was one of those philosophical discourses that forces one to look at the big picture, and perhaps take life a [...]
Uric Acid and Progression of Kidney Disease
New data over the last decade have forced us to relook at the possibility of a causal relationship between high uric acid levels and chronic kidney disease (CKD). A steady [...]
Top 10 eAJKD Posts From 2014
eAJKD Advisory Board member, Dr. Matt Sparks, gathered the top 10 eAJKD posts from 2014 (in reverse order): 10. Kidney Week 2014: New Drug for Hyperkalemia by Dr. Dena [...]
Hospital-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Readmissions
Having to complete excessive paperwork when discharging a patient is an unenviable part of the medical intern’s job description. I learned the hard way that no patient [...]
CKD and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Is There a Link?
Targher et al recently published a review in AJKD that discussed the potential link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). We [...]
PD in Patients with Gastrostomy Tubes (& vice versa): Challenging but Doable
Literature on the feasibility of gastrostomy tubes in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients is still sparse. Paudel and Fan’s recent article in AJKD should give nephrologists [...]
The “Retinal” view of CKD
Ricardo et al recently published a prospective cohort study in AJKD using NHANES data from 1988-1994 on the association between mortality and retinopathy in CKD patients. We [...]
Recovery Time From Dialysis Session? Does It Matter?
“How long does it take you to recover from a dialysis session?” refers to the recovery time for the ESRD HD patients. It has been shown to affect the mental and physical [...]