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Applications Open for the NSMC Internship

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship was established in 2015. The goal of the NSMC internship is to cultivate leaders in medicine by instilling confidence, knowledge, competence, and professionalism in the use of social media. [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2017: Late-Breaking and High-Impact Clinical Trial Session

November 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Kidney Week does a lot of reviewing and integrating during the week. The best sessions present old data with a new interpretation so that you can use the information to take better care of patients. But the Late-Breaking and High-Impact Trials [read more...]

#KidneyWk: Serum and Dialysate Electrolytes and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

November 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

One of the last sessions of ASN Kidney Week was “New Methods to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in ESRD Clinical Practice” or, in other words, as Tariq Shafi noted, it seemed appropriate to close out out Kidney Week with a session on [read more...]

KDIGO CKD-MBD Updated Guideline: The More We Know, The Less We Know

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

The KDIGO Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) Guideline Update was released last month. The team at KDIGO, as usual, did a great job presenting the update for people with differing needs and goals. The guideline update [read more...]

#NephJC Turns Three: A Closer Look at the Online Nephrology Journal Club

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Most of us are familiar with the concept of the “Journal Club,” either at our practicing or training institutions. A recent AJKD publication by Topf et al highlights the evolution of NephJC, a fully online nephrology journal club. [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: NephMadness in Training

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

NephMadness is a great way to start a discussion about a host of nephrology concepts. We are encouraging residency and fellowship programs to make this a project for the whole program: every resident or fellow can submit their own bracket and [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: Nutrition Region

March 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2017 | #NephMadness or #NutritionRegion Selection Committee Member for the Nutrition Region: Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Dr. Kalantar-Zadeh, MPH, PhD, is Professor and Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension at UC [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: The Role of the Kidney in Disorders of Volume

December 20, 2016 // 2 Comments

A recent AJKD Core Curriculum by Danziger and Hoenig reviewed the role of the kidney in volume regulation. Test your knowledge on this important topic. Post prepared by Dr. Joel Topf, AJKD Blog Advisory Board Member. For a PDF version of the [read more...]

Trying to Reduce the Uncertainty Surrounding Phosphorus Binders

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

I would wager that pound-for-pound, there is no drug with less solid outcome-based data than phosphorus binders. We are aware that phosphorus binders do an acceptable job of lowering the serum phosphorus in the face of kidney failure. We also know [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: KDIGO Talks COI

March 22, 2016 // 1 Comment

Submit your picks! | For more on NephMadness 2016 | #NephMadness or #MisstepsRegion on Twitter Researching and writing the missteps section on normalization of hemoglobin, Joel Topf couldn’t avoid the feeling that the KDOQI guidelines [read more...]