Tom Forbes (@Kidney_Tom), one of the authors from this week’s NephJC chat on using stem cells to make organelles to serve as patient specific disease models gives his thoughts on the field and where this study fits.
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This week, we will discuss the best schedule for tapering steroids in adult patients with podocytopathies (MCD/FSGS).
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This week, we will discuss the use of LLMs for the diagnosis of complex nephrology cases. Can AI help nephrologists nail the correct diagnosis?
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MERCURI-2 reports that dapagliflozin cuts postoperative AKI after cardiac surgery, but the headline result is mostly a urine-output story, not a creatinine one. That matters: urine output after surgery is easily swayed by anesthesia, fluid shifts, vasopressors, and a diuretic drug in the mix. Until dapagliflozin shows it protects kidney function, not just urine output.
