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Cristina Adriana Popa
Advance-HTN: Return of the systolic order – ...

This week, we will discuss a NEJM trial on uncontrolled hypertension: lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, aims at the hormonal dark side driving resistance.

Advance-HTN: Return of the systolic order – Lorundrostat’s role in restoring balance
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swapnil hiremath
Double Trouble: ddAVP and the Bleeding Biopsy

This week, we will discuss a double header: two single centre ddAVP trials in kidney biopsy from India.

Double Trouble: ddAVP and the Bleeding Biopsy
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Cristina Adriana Popa
Kidney Allografts-Play With Fire, Get Burned

This week, we will discuss the prognostic role of microvascular inflammation in kidney transplantation. Can the capillaries whisper their damage in lesions before antibodies speak? Maybe this study compels us to treat the injury we see, not just the disease we can name…

Kidney Allografts-Play With Fire, Get Burned
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swapnil hiremath
Metformin- Should I Stay or Should I Go

This week, we will discuss another target trial emulation study. The FDA says to stop metformin at a GFR of 30. Are they right?

Metformin- Should I Stay or Should I Go
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Brian Rifkin
KDIGO 2025 ADPKD Guidelines Review

This week, we will discuss the first iteration of KDIGO’s 2025 guidelines on ADPKD.  These guidelines are a result of a decade of global collaboration between physicians, researchers, advocates, and patients. The guidelines incorporate ADPKD-specific care as well as many general CKD management practice points.


KDIGO 2025 ADPKD Guidelines Review

#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!

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

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.