SCM12: eAJKD interview with Dr S. Jawad Sher
Dr. S. Jawad Sher, from Indiana University School of Medicine, discusses his poster for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2012 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM12), Outcome of [...]
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Center-Level Factors and Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation
It is well known that African Americans have a lower rate of living donor transplantation compared with Caucasians. In a recent article published in the American Journal of [...]
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 [...]
Motivations and Experiences of Living Kidney Donors
In this post, Dr. Allison Tong (AT) discusses her recent paper in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases on using thematic synthesis to understand the motivations and [...]
Largest “Swap” in the World Results in a Torrent of Publicity for Kidney Paired Donation
The idea of paired kidney donation was first described in 1986 by Rapaport [1, 2]. Since then, paired kidney donation, or better known as kidney “swap,” has been [...]
Advanced Age and Kidney Transplantation, Part 2
In the second of two parts, Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (KK) from the University of California, Los Angeles, continues to discuss his recent study on advanced age and kidney [...]
Advanced Age and Kidney Transplantation, Part 1
Geriatric nephrology is on the rise as the baby boomers age, and more and more patients will encounter nephrologists. Transplant nephrology is facing this challenge as well. [...]
HLA-B Matching Priority Removal in Transplantation Allocation: Was it Worth It?
Dr. Dorry Segev (DS), Transplant Surgeon from Johns Hopkins Medical Center, recently discussed the removal of HLA-B matching priority in transplantation with Dr. Kenar [...]