How Does Aldosterone Activation Contribute to CKD?
Christopher Naranjo @NaranjoNephro Dr. Christopher Naranjo is a Nephrology Fellow at the University of Miami. He is passionate about hypertension, glomerular diseases, and [...]
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Highlights from the November 2022 Issue
The entire November issue is FREE until November 30th in celebration of Kidney Week Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short [...]
#NephMadness 2020: Hyperkalemia Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2020 | #NephMadness | #HyperKRegion Selection Committee Member: Deborah Clegg Deborah Clegg is Associate Dean of Research in the College [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Potassium Homeostasis
A recent Core Curriculum by Palmer and Clegg published in AJKD reviews the regulatory aspects of normal K+ physiology as a preface to highlighting common disorders in K+ [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Solute and Water Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an effective treatment for patients with chronic kidney failure. In a recent AJKD Special Article, Ramesh Khanna reviews solute and water [...]
#SCM17 Late-Breaking Abstract: Undetected Life-Threatening Cardiac Arrhythmias in Dialysis Patients with High Potassium Variability
Dr. Bhupindar Singh is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine and Executive Director of Research and Medical Affairs for ZS Pharma. He [...]
Potassium Intake: Does It Matter for CKD and Hypertension?
Invited commentary by Dr. Timothy Yau. As nephrologists who regularly manage the complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD), our visceral reaction to high potassium intake [...]
#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: Potassium and ESRD
Dr. Ambreen Gul (AG), from Dialysis Clinic, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2016 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
#KidneyWk 2015: The Cation that Matters: Potassium in Hypertension
This session from #KidneyWk 2015 nicely captured some basic science aspects – starting off at the cellular level, and then transitioned quite smoothly to clinical trials [...]