Test Your Knowledge: Management of Kidney Transplant Recipients
A recent Core Curriculum by Voora and Adey published in AJKD reviews the mechanisms of immunosuppression, types of rejection, complications of recurrent disease, common [...]
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Peritoneal Dialysis Utilization: How Can We Increase Access?
The United States Secretary of Health & Human Services, Alex Azar, recently highlighted in a speech at the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Patient Summit the fact [...]
Nephrolithiasis: A Stepping Stone to ESRD?
A recent study published in AJKD by Dhondup et al provides a number of helpful insights into the progression of kidney disease in patients with nephrolithiasis. Although the [...]
Portable and Implantable Artificial Kidneys: AWAK, WAK, and IAK, oh my!
Kidney disease carries a high burden for individual patients and for the medical system as a whole. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is associated with high mortality and [...]
Preparing to Fail: A Useful Tool for Predicting Time to ESRD in Pediatric CKD
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face a heightened risk for progression and development of comorbidities due to their longer life expectancy from a young age [...]
Health Insurance and PD Utilization at ESRD Onset in the US
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains an important renal replacement option for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, as compared to other countries, PD remains [...]
PD or HD: Which Road Do We Take?
The great American poet, Robert Frost, wrote: “Two roads diverged in a wood And I I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference” In the world of [...]
How Did Northern Ireland Revolutionize Their Living Kidney Donor Transplantation Program?
A recent article published in AJKD by Graham and Courtney describes a quality improvement project in Belfast City Hospital to facilitate living kidney donation. Prior to [...]
KDIGO Guidelines on Living Kidney Donors: A Call for A Paradigm Shift
The much-anticipated KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors was recently published. It is available in two versions: a 10-page [...]
The Uncertainty Over Treatment Options for Uremic Pruritus
A recent article in AJKD by Simonsen et al (Open Access) describes a systematic review of treatment options for uremic pruritis, a debilitating condition in patients [...]