What You Need to Know About Managing a Dialysis Unit and More
AJKD recently published a Core Curriculum entitled “Management of the Hemodialysis Unit” by Blankschaen et al. Corresponding author Dr. Jay Wish (JW) discusses this paper [...]
ESRD
HIF Away: Roxadustat Has Arrived!
Anemia management in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has always been a complicated process. Prior to the introduction of recombinant human erythropoietin, the [...]
Driving Earlier, Better CKD Care Through a Patient-focused Payment Model
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), in partnership with Northwell Health, is working to establish an alternative payment model to align incentives with better outcomes for [...]
#SCM16: Potassium and Cardiac Events in ESRD
Dr. Bhupinder Singh (BS), from ZS Pharma in San Mateo, California, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM16), [...]
#SCM16: The Status of Magnesium in Nephrology
Dr. Anawin Sanguankeo (AS), from Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
#SCM16: Lung Ultrasound for the Renal Doctor
Dr. Alfredo Peguero (AP), from James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Florida, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
#SCM16: Olfactory Defects and Kidney Disease
Sagar Nigwekar, MD, MMSc and Teodor Paunescu, PhD (SN & TP), from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, discuss their abstract for the National [...]
#SCM16: Atrial Fibrillation and AKI
Dr. Swati Mehta (SM), from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York), discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring [...]
#SCM16: Hepatitis C and Dialysis
Dr. Jason Lake (JL), from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring [...]
#SCM16: Velphoro in ESRD
Dr. Stuart M. Sprague (SMS), from NorthShore University Health System University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (Evanston, Illinois), discusses his abstracts for the [...]