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The State of Procedures in Nephrology Fellowships

July 19, 2016 // 5 Comments

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Nephrology fellows have seen a decline in the number of procedures performed over the last several years. In fact, some have questioned whether or not it is even necessary to continue training nephrologists to perform certain procedures. Most [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: Let the Madness Begin

March 10, 2016 // 1 Comment

What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an homage to the NCAA Basketball Tournament, March Madness, but while the basketball tournament seeds the top ranked basketball teams, we use some of the most important, newest, and controversial concepts in [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: Pediatric Nephrology Region

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Submit your picks! | For more on NephMadness 2016 | #NephMadness or #PedsRegion on Twitter The Pediatric Nephrology Region makes its inaugural entry into NephMadness ’16. Without a doubt this region represents an all-star cast of [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: Why We Do This

March 10, 2016 // 1 Comment

Today is World Kidney Day. The day on the calendar when we are supposed to spend some time thinking about our kidneys. Well, the team at AJKD blog never stops thinking about kidneys. We’re weird that way, so we use World Kidney Day to do something [read more...]

NephMadness for Dummies

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Before we get to the details, we want to provide the links: Make your picks at the bracket picking site or The educational content at AJKD Blog Every March, the nephrology social media scene is dominated by NephMadness, an homage to the [read more...]

The 2015 KDOQI Hemodialysis Adequacy Guideline Update—What’s New

November 30, 2015 // 1 Comment

The 2015 Hemodialysis Adequacy Guideline Update from KDOQI is the next iteration of guidelines from the 2006 report. The document covers a number of important topics to guide clinicians in the management of patients with kidney disease. These [read more...]

Recap of AJKD Blog’s coverage of #KidneyWk 2015

November 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Check out all of the coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2015 Kidney Week in San Diego, California, by AJKD Blog’s Matt Sparks, Joel Topf, Edgar Lerma, Magdalena Madero, Swapnil Hiremath, Jane Schell, Isaac Stillman, and AJKD In [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2015: Does Personality Training Improve Communication Skills of Nephrology Fellows?

November 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

During the education poster section on Saturday I came across an interesting poster led by Anna Burgner and Julia Lewis from Vanderbilt University. The title of their poster was “Improving the Communication Skills of Nephrology Fellows By [read more...]

The Yin and Yang of Autophagy in Kidney Ischemia Reperfusion Injury

August 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

The components that make up a cell are in constant flux. New proteins are made and old ones are degraded. What happens to these partially degraded or damaged intracellular constituents (proteins, organelles) as a cell ages? If these damaged proteins [read more...]

The Peer Kidney Care Initiative: Improving Dialysis Care in the US

June 25, 2015 // 2 Comments

The 1-year mortality rate for patients on hemodialysis in the US, at close to 20%, continues to be one of the highest of any country in the world. Reasons for this are multifactorial and many efforts have been initiated (such as USRDS and DOPPS) to [read more...]

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