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Cristina Adriana Popa
2025 IgAN KDIGO guidelines: fresh out of ...

This week, we will discuss the 2025 KDIGO IgAN guidelines. which the shift from supportive care to structured, evidence-based therapy

2025 IgAN KDIGO guidelines: fresh out of press, already aging gracefully
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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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New kid on the block: #RheumJC

The rheumatology crew that killed it during the Rituximab for ANCA vasculitis NephJC are striking out on there own with an ambitious plan for their own twitter journal club. They are kicking it off this coming Thursday with a GMT and EST at the exact same time as our NephJCs, 8GMT and 9EST. They are then doing a consolidation wrap up discussion the following day. 

The first topic is one near and dear to all of our hearts, lupus nephritis. RCT of tacrolimus versus MMF for induction. 

It would be great if some of our community could support the rheumatologists as they launch their journal club.

RheumJC home page | Press coverage | Twitter feed

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Humble beginnings

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I had thought of starting a Nephrology Journal club ever since I wrote about eJC on PBFluids. In fact if you look at my suggestions for how to improve CJASN eJC, you will see the skeleton for the current #NephJC. But ideas are cheap and I never did anything about it.

In the middle of NephMadness last year I received a tweet from from Swapnil suggesting that someone do a Nephrology Twitter Journal Club. I told him it was a great idea but that I had my hands full with NephMadness and that he should write me after the contest ended.

Literally moments after we announced the winner of NephMadness, Swapnil e-mails me about the journal club. I told him to do some research on how twitter journal clubs work and write a post on Medium. I half hoped he would drop the ball and go away but he published it on April 17. A week later we collaborated on a tighter introduction, also published on Medium (we didn't yet have our SquareSpace sight) And five days after that we held our first NephJC.