Background
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?
Background, summary
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?
Meta
joel topf
NephJC 2025 Fall Pledge Drive

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

NephJC 2025 Fall Pledge Drive
Background, summary
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
Background
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?

TenXeetNephJC? TenPostNephJC? It's HDF and CONVINCE anyway.

Huge trial on our core work, catch-up here

Flozinator and NephJC pins are gone

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HDF vs HD: Need for CONVINCE-ing Evidence

HDF vs HD: Need for CONVINCE-ing Evidence

This week, we will discuss CONVINCE, a randomized controlled trial, about the long-lasting battle between hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration. Will it convince the unconvinced, or will it diffuse even more uncertainty into community?

#TenTweetsNephJC does STS and CUA

WIth no RCTs to go on, we review a meta-analysis on sodium thiosulphate for calciphylaxis

Giving oral bicarb raises serum bicarb

RCT of PO sodium bicarbonate in patients with renal transplant to see if impacts stability of renal function - catch up here!

ASN Kidney Week. We have plans...

NephJC will be out in force at Kidney Week in Philadelphia this year. And the thing we are most excited about is the Friday night party (November 3rd) at Philadelphia City Winery. This year it is a two parter…

  1. From 7 to 9 we will be doing a live recording of a special podcast with The Curbsiders! We will have some special guests in addition to Matt Watto and Paul Williams. It is going to be awesome. Seating is limited so you will need a ticket. To get a ticket you need to donate $100 to NephJC. The donation is tax-deductible in the US. The podcast recording includes an open bar and will likely have light appetizers (let’s see how the fund raising goes).

  2. After the podcast we will have our traditional bar night “Blogger Night” at the same location from 9 until they toss us out. This will be a cash bar.

City Winery is at 990 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

RITAZAREM - how to manage relapse in AAV

Was anyone really backing azathioprine against vitamin R in relapsed ANCA-associated vasculitis? Catch-up on the RCT here.