#NephMadness 2024: Adjusting “Quality” versus Quantity in Peritoneal Dialysis
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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2024 | #NephMadness Osama El Shamy @osamaelshamy88 Osama El Shamy MD is an assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University. He is co-chair of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Program Committee, both an author and reviewer for UpToDate’s peritoneal dialysis section, a hub committee member on the NKF Home Dialysis Project ECHO, and faculty member of Home Dialysis University. Competitors for the Peritoneal Dialysis Region Team 1: PD First vs Team 2: Beyond Kt/V Image generated by Evan Zeitler using Image Creator from ..read more
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#NephMadness 2024: Peritoneal Dialysis Region
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3w ago
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2024 | #NephMadness  Selection Committee Member: Janice Lea  Dr. Janice P. Lea is a Professor of Medicine at Emory University and is board-certified in Nephrology and Hypertension. Dr. Lea is the Clinical Director of Nephrology and of Telenephrology as well as Chief Medical Director of Emory Dialysis, including Home Dialysis therapies. She earned her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a Nephrology fellowship at Emory. Dr. Lea’s research and clinical expertise are ..read more
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#NephMadness 2024: Toxicology Region
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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2024 | #NephMadness  Selection Committee Member: Diane Calello @DrDianeC Diane Calello is the Executive and Medical Director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System (NJPIES) in Newark, NJ, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She obtained MD from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and completed all post-graduate training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her areas of specific interest include pediatric consequences of the opioid epidemi ..read more
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Highlights from the January 2024 Issue
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Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. Highlights from the January 2024 issue: The Association of Class I and II Human Leukocyte Antigen Serotypes With End-Stage Kidney Disease Due to Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis and Dense Deposit Disease by Halimat Afolabi et al From the autho ..read more
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#NephMadness 2023: Heart Failure Devices Region
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1y ago
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #CardiacDevices Selection Committee Member: Nisha Bansal @NishaKidneyDoc Nisha Bansal is an Associate Professor and the Arthur Stach Family Endowed Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington (UW). She is also an investigator in the Kidney Research Institute, the Associate Fellowship Program Director and the Director of the Kidney-Heart Service at UW. She is an expert in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease and those trea ..read more
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Highlights from the February 2023 Issue
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1y ago
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. From the  February 2023 issue: Urate Transporter ABCG2 Function and Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study of CKD Progression by Yuki Ohashi et al  From the authors: The urate transporter ABCG2 is a protein that regulates se ..read more
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Highlights from the November 2022 Issue
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1y ago
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. From the November 2022 issue:   Apixaban Dosing Patterns Versus Warfarin in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Receiving Dialysis: A Retrospective Cohort Study by James B. Wetmore et al  From the authors: Some patients on dialysis who h ..read more
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PDOPPS Adds Perspective in Peritonitis
AJKD Blog | Peritonial Dialysis
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1y ago
Peritoneal dialysis–associated peritonitis contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality among peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and to the utilization of health care. In an analysis of the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) registry of 6639 incident PD patients, the 30-day mortality rate was 10% among patients with peritonitis. Peritonitis is a significant risk factor for PD technique failure with rates up to 50% for death censored technique failure in countries across the world. In this post, we discuss some recent high quality data from the Peritoneal Dialys ..read more
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Highlights from the June 2022 Issue
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1y ago
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. From the June 2022 issue: Patient Preferences for Longer or More Frequent In-Center Hemodialysis Regimens: A Multicenter Discrete Choice Study by James Fotheringham et al [OPEN ACCESS] From the authors: Longer or 4-times-a-week dialysis has been associated ..read more
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Highlights From the February 2022 Issue
AJKD Blog | Peritonial Dialysis
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2y ago
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it matters. We hope our readers will find this valuable in helping them keep up with the latest research in the field of nephrology. From the February 2022 issue: Association Between Deceased Donor Acute Kidney Injury Assessed Using Baseline Serum Creatinine Back-Estimation and Graft Survival: Results From the French National CRISTAL Registry by Rémi Lenain et al From the authors: Althou ..read more
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