Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of the ASN’s Kidney Week 2012
Check out all of eAJKD’s coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2012 below and @eAJKD on Twitter! Drs. Kenar Jhaveri, Matt Sparks, Joel Topf, and [...]
Kidney Week 2012
Kidney Week 2012: AKI in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
Lecture: Ward Rounds and Acute Kidney Injury Dr. Sarah Faubel created this 2-hour lecture block. The idea was to look at four different theater of operations and look do a [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Drug-induced Acute Interstitial Nephritis
Manuel Praga, MD Madrid Spain Drug-induced AIN In the elderly, the incidence of AIN has increased over the last 10 years. True incidence might be higher as biopsies usually [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Novel Agents Causing Nephrotoxicities
Mark Perazella, MD Yale University Proximal Tubular Damage Tenofovir: protienuria and rapid decline of kidney function (VHA database). Elvitegravir, cobicistat, [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Late Breaking Trials: ANCA Vasculitis New Trial
Mycophenolate versus cyclophosphamide for induction of ANCA-associated vasculitis. The lead author and presenter is Dr. Rachel B. Jones. The current standard of care is [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Acute Kidney Injury in the Neuro ICU
Dr. Sarah Faubel created this 2-hour lecture block. The idea was to look at four different theater of operations and look do a deep dive on how the causes and treatments of [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Late Breaking Trials: EVOLVE
The cinacalcet randomized controlled trial: EVOLVE. Speaking is the lead author Glen Chertow. Disclosure: I (Joel Topf) was a primary investigator for EVOLVE. The second [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Late Breaking Trials: TEMPO
We now have an effective medication for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Tolvaptan, the oral vaptan approved for hyponatremia, was effective at slowing cyst [...]
Kidney Week 2012: Direct Renin Inhibition in Non-diabetic Kidney Disease (DRINK study)
An interim analysis from the DRINK trial was presented as an oral communication by Tang et al on Friday Nov 2nd. Seventy six non-diabetic patients with CKD stages 3-4 were [...]
Kidney Week 2012: AKI in the Trauma ICU
Lecture: Ward Rounds and Acute Kidney Injury Dr. Sarah Faubel created this 2-hour lecture block. The idea was to look at 4 different theater of operations and do a deep dive [...]