New updated guidance on hypertension including screening for secondary causes, use of renal denervation, hypertension and pregnancy, risk assessment, monitoring and treatment.
Check out this wonderful VA by Dr Sejal Lakhani
This week, we will discuss whether less is more when it comes to discontinuing dialysis in patients with AKI and a chance to recover.
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?
This week, we will discuss the phase 3 ORIGIN3 trial of atacicept, an APRIL/BAFF inhibitor for use in IgAN.
Day 3 of Kidney Week. Sibeprenlimab and Balcinrenone on NEJM and Lancet, plus a couple of other non-kidneywk studies.
New updated guidance on hypertension including screening for secondary causes, use of renal denervation, hypertension and pregnancy, risk assessment, monitoring and treatment.
Check out this wonderful VA by Dr Sejal Lakhani
Check out the summary on HiLo chat, done by NephJC intern Shellie Fravel.
Check out the summary on ACHIEVE chat, done by NephJC intern Janany Sabescumar.
¿La espironolactona será la heroína que conquiste el corazón en hemodiálisis?
Descúbrelo en la travesía del ensayo ACHIEVE y únete a la discusión en #NephJC.
Does spironolactone decrease cardiovascular disease and heart failure hospitalizations in patients on dialysis?
Check out this crisp VA by Dr Akshaya Jayachandran.
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:
Aunque sabemos que el fósforo elevado se asocia consistentemente con mayor mortalidad y eventos cardiovasculares, aún no existe evidencia definitiva de que bajarlo de forma agresiva cambie el pronóstico.
Revisemos el resumen visual del estudio HiLo, creado Sejal Lakhani que evaluó objetivos altos vs. bajos de fósforo sérico en pacientes en hemodiálisis.
Is a lower versus higher phosphate target beneficial to patients undergoing hemodialysis?
Check out this crisp VA by Dr Sejal Lakhani
Check out the summary on eGFR diference chat, done by NephJC intern Bogdan Agavriloaei
Basado en los datos del estudio CRIC, este análisis profundiza en si esa discordancia (TFGe dif) es solo “ruido”… o una señal clínica que hemos estado ignorando.
Echale un vistazo al resumen visual realizado por el equipo de internos de #NephJC Dr Sai Vani Yellampalli y Akshaya Jayachandran
Based on data from the CRIC study, this analysis dives deep into whether this lab mismatch is just noise… or a clinical signal we’ve been missing.
Check out the beautiful visual abstract made by our NephJC interns Sai Vani Yellampalli and Akshaya Jayachandran. Great team work!!!