Test Your Knowledge: Complement
We’ve been releasing quiz questions from NephMadness 2019 every week as we count down to the NephMadness 2020 logo reveal at Kidney Week. Did you miss any of the [...]
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#NephMadness 2019: Complement Inhibition in Post-Transplant Thrombotic Microangiopathy
Mythili Ghanta Mythili Ghanta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Associate Medical Director of the [...]
#NephMadness 2019: Hogan’s Hero in the Complement Region
Jonathan Hogan Jonathan Hogan is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of the Glomerular Disease Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University [...]
#NephMadness 2019: Complement Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2019 | #NephMadness | #ComplementRegion Selection Committee Member: Carla Nester Carla Nester is the Director of Pediatric Nephrology in [...]
Thrombotic Microangiopathies and Stem Cell Transplant
A recent narrative review published in AJKD discusses the association between thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). AJKD Social [...]
Living Donor Transplantation in aHUS Cohort At Risk for Recurrence
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), often with pathogenic mutations in complement regulatory genes, has traditionally been associated with poor renal transplant [...]
ATC 2013: Eculizumab Therapy for Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection
Eculizumab Therapy for Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection Chronic antibody mediated rejection (AMR) is currently a major problem in kidney transplantation. Chronic AMR [...]
Eculizumab and Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS)
HUS and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) are within the spectrum of diseases seen with thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA). Recent advances in the understanding of [...]
Eculizumab in Infants
Complement cascade inhibition has revolutionized treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). A recent case report published in the American Journal of Kidney [...]