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Cristina Adriana Popa
The Protein Pendulum in CKD: supplement or ...

This week, we will discuss an old dilemma in nephrology. To restrict or supplement the proteins? Premise: advanced CKD and dialysis.

The Protein Pendulum in CKD: supplement or restrict?
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Brian Rifkin
Chimerism and Immune Tolerance: Can We Says ...

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.

Chimerism and Immune Tolerance: Can We Says Goodbye to Immunosuppression?
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joel topf
NephJC 2025 Fall Pledge Drive

Help keep NephJC a vital, original, and unbiased source of medical education.

NephJC 2025 Fall Pledge Drive
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Brian Rifkin
PREVENT, Detect, Treat: What’s New in the 2025 ...

This week, we will discuss the AHA/ACC 2025 hypertension guideline update. Wow, have eight years flown by?

PREVENT, Detect, Treat: What’s New in the 2025 Hypertension Toolkit
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swapnil hiremath
In ESRD is spironolactone an overACHIEVEr?

This week, we will discuss the ACHIEVE trial. Will spironolactone achieve CV benefits in ESRD?

In ESRD is spironolactone an overACHIEVEr?

#NephJC on the facebook app: wrap up

We had a few hiccups for this chat: the authors, Komal Kumar, Betsy King did join us for the first chat - and so did some other staff from Hopkins ERGOT workgroup, but twitter gave a lot of troubles the next day. Tweets were not showing up - so we called it a day, and rescheduled the chat to Sep 28. Things did work out this time!

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Does Regional Anesthesia Improve Fistula failure rates? The #NephJC wrapup

We had some great discussion about the trial - and its applicability. Featured input from vascular surgery, anesthesia - and first author Emma Aitken!

American chat Transcript
EU chat Transcript

Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?

Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?

Historically nephrology is a specialty that has been criticized for it’s inability to produce high quality randomized controlled clinical trials designed to answer a specific question. So, when the Lancet publishes the results of a clinical trial in the field it is worth taking note.