Kidney Week 2013: ZS-9, A Potassium Binder That is Tested and Works
ZS-9, A Potassium Binder That is Tested and Works ZS-9 is a novel, selective potassium trap. Per the speaker, it is very different than sodium polystyrene sulfonate [...]
Kidney Week 2013
Kidney Week 2013: Coronary, getting to the heart of AKI
Coronary, getting to the heart of AKI Big nephrology has been beating the drum that acute kidney injury leads to chronic kidney disease. Leave it to the cardiac surgeons to [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Late breaking oral abstracts–VA NEPHRON D trial
Late breaking oral abstracts–VA NEPHRON D trial ACEI and ARB Combined Angiotensin Inhibition for the Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy Combination ACEI/ARB is over and [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Late breaking oral abstracts–BEACON trial
Late breaking oral abstracts– BEACON trial Bardoxolone Methyl in Type 2 Diabetes and Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease Glenn Chertow, MD—Stanford The BEACON trial [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Antioxidant probucol is efficient for proteinuria reduction in type 2 diabetes
Antioxidant probucol is efficient for proteinuria reduction in type 2 diabetes The study by Zhu and colleagues examined the effect of proteinuria reduction in a randomized [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Communication Skills in Nephrology Fellows
Communication skills in Nephrology fellows Jane Schell and Robert Cohen, MD 1 Communication skills education is not as accepted in nephrology fellows. [...]
Kidney Week 2013: eAJKD Twitter coverage – Day 1 & 2
Dr. Matt Sparks has been tweeting from this year’s Kidney Week. Check out his tweets from day 1 and day 2 and follow @eAJKD on Twitter for more live updates! Here is [...]
Kidney Week 2013: iChoose Kidney—a new shared decision tool for patients
iChoose Kidney—How to make informed decision for dialysis or transplant- a new shared decision tool for patients. Rachael Patzer, PhD Shared decision making is hard based [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Med-Ed research in Nephrology 101
Med-Ed research in Nephrology 101 Speaker: Kenar Jhaveri Challenges in med-ed research a. Participants are actively learning over time b. Comparison groups are difficult to [...]
Kidney Week 2013: KDIGO App — Past, Present and Future
Nephrology has been at the forefront of clinical practice guidelines since the publication of Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (DOQI) in 1997. These guidelines are [...]