The ASN Innovations in Kidney Education Contest results were revealed this week. Check out their creations here.
- Water Homeostasis by John Danziger, MD Nephrologist, Harvard Medical School
- Urine Trouble Board Game by Dorey A. Glenn, MD Fellow, University of North Carolina Kidney Center
- CRRT Simulator ppt by Kamalanathan K. Sambandam, MD Nephrologist, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Renewing the discussion on organ trafficking in kidney transplantation are 6 Open Access (Organ Donation and Procurement) articles from Transplantation Direct. You can get them here.
Tweeted out this week were the ERA EDTA guidelines on the use of Tolvaptan in ADPKD. Follow this link (Open Access)
Ketoanalogues - Should do we still think about them? This latest article from JASN explores a vegetarian diet with ketoanalogue supplementation which showed retardation of CKD progression.
From our Pediatric Nephrology friends comes 2 articles of interest
- First a very informative educational review on the lifelong implications of measurements of kidney functions in neonates.
- Secondly guidelines on management of neuropathic bladder in children from the Bristish Association of Pediatric Urologists.
One more Belatacept story this week. Published in AJT were results of a new trial which looked into immune manipulation post transplant. They studied the lymphocyte reconstitution after Alemtuzumab induction followed by Belatacept and Rapamycin therapy and showed a reduced rate of acute rejection commonly seen with nondepleting induction with belatacept maintenance.
NEJM article on Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate. Get it here.