Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Where Do We Stand?
While blood pressure has been measured in clinics for over 100 years, we are now living in a time where home blood pressure monitoring is increasingly common. Blood pressure [...]
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Integrated Nephrology Care: What Does the Future Hold?
Care of the patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is complicated and expensive. Implementation of an integrated care model in nephrology has been shown to improve [...]
Treating Henoch-Schönlein Purpura with Plasma Exchange
In a recent article published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Augusto et al of Angers, France, presented their 22 year experience with Henoch-Schönlein purpura [...]
Heparin or Citrate: What is the Evidence?
Heparin or citrate? When prescribing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), this question is often encountered. In a recent article appearing in the American Journal of [...]
Newer Anemia Therapies
The management of anemia associated with kidney disease is undergoing a revolution as the safety of erythropoietin analogs is being challenged by newly recognized dangers [...]