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Brian Rifkin
Fish Oil in Dialysis: A Big Catch or an Empty ...

Holy Mackerel! This week we will discuss fish oil use in maintenance hemodialysis patients. Could this be the one thing that bends the curve on CV mortality, or is it just a red herring?

Fish Oil in Dialysis: A Big Catch or an Empty Net
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Brian Rifkin
Attacking the Origin of IgAN: ORIGIN3 and ...

This week, we will discuss the phase 3 ORIGIN3 trial of atacicept, an APRIL/BAFF inhibitor for use in IgAN.

Attacking the Origin of IgAN: ORIGIN3 and Atacicept
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Kidney Week in Houston: Day 3

Day 3 of Kidney Week. Sibeprenlimab and Balcinrenone on NEJM and Lancet, plus a couple of other non-kidneywk studies.

Kidney Week in Houston: Day 3
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Kidney Week in Houston: Day 2

in this edition: Fish Oil, GBD, Flozination meta-analysis, CHW intervention in Hispanic/Latino patients, and much more

Kidney Week in Houston: Day 2
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Kidney Week in Houston: Day 1

in this edition: Atacicept in IgAN; Albuminuria as a surrogate outcome, Renal Remission and additional CONFIDENCE analysis

Kidney Week in Houston: Day 1

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Chimerism and Immune Tolerance: Can We Says Goodbye to Immunosuppression?

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Chimerism and Immune Tolerance: Can We Says Goodbye to Immunosuppression?

This week, we will discuss the use of creating chimeras to induce immune tolerance and its potential to decrease or eliminate the need for immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients.

#NephJC Summer Bookclub: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

#NephJC Summer Bookclub: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

The summer book club started in 2015, with one of the best books we have done in book club, Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. I think it should be required reading for all physicians. So now, in 2025, it is the NephJC Summer Book’s tenth anniversary (which represents our eleventh book). The history has been rich: