Could running marathons be hard on your kidneys, or at least biomarkers that track kidney injury> this paper in AJKD seems to suggest so. Join us to discuss this intriguing data and whether it should impact on runners, on May 23 and 24th.
Peritoneal Dialysis vs Furosemide in post-op hearts
ACEi, ARBs the Change in Creatinine, and the Future Risk of Outcomes
Kidney Donation, How Safe Is It? The ERA-EDTA Descartes Working Group Position
Do APOL1 risk variants lead to a podocytopathy?
Does an AKI episode Impact Subsequent Pregnancy?
Dialysis for the Undocumented Immigrant
Background on the The cost of AKI
A little NSAID never hurt anybody
Even your pill bottle spies on you.
Walk Away to Lower Hospitalization?
Next NephJC: The CKD Classification System in the Precision Medicine Era
HARMONY: Is it safe to withdraw steroids early after Kidney Transplant?
Does Contrast cause acute Kidney Injury?
Iodinated contrast is well known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI), mainly from its physico-chemical properties, and is the commonly cited as being the third most common cause of AKI in hospitalized patients. But is this really true? Even the term contrast-induced AKI (CI-AKI) is now being increasingly replaced by contrast-associated AKI (CA-AKI), and could contrast be an 'innocent bystander'?