Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Conferences, Courses, & Grants
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KIM1 and Kidney Disease: Contender for Top 10 of 2013
Although I don’t believe that many will agree that this was the most important paper of the year in the world of nephrology, I do want to give a shout out to a paper published in JCI in…
Rituximab for ANCA Associated Vasculitis (AAV): Contender for top 10 of 2013
In a year which gave us the bardoxolone failure, NEPHRON-D and the CORAL trial to name a few, a study with a positive result should be celebrated and the RAVE follow-up must be a contender for top 10…
Pregnancy in kidney transplant recipients – Hope with caution…
Being a parent is probably one of the most desirable and difficult tasks in life. While ESRD is associated with a high rate of infertility related to hormonal changes and anovulation, most patients undergoing renal transplantation resume menstrual…
Stenting for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis: Another nail in the coffin
Despite a lack of strong evidence, angioplasty and stenting of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) became a common intervention in the last decade. It was often performed on incidental lesions discovered during “drive-by” angiography in cardiac procedures. In…
Does JC Virus Nephropathy Exist?
The JC virus is a member of the Polyomavirus family, which includes the BK virus. It infects about 80% of healthy adults and establishes latency in renal tissue. It was first isolated in 1971 from the brain of…
Transplantation of HIV+ organs: from ban to HOPE
Organ donation from HIV positive patients has been prohibited in the USA since 1988. Pre-transplant screening for HIV is mandatory using nuclear amplification test (NAT), though false negative results during “window period” are a potential concern in donor…
Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy
Aristolochic acids (AA) are found in products derived from the aristolochia genus of plants which are used extensively in herbal medicines, particularly in Asia. Nephrotoxicity resulting from AA exposure was originally described in a case series of women…
Abatacept for Glomerular Diseases: A New Era of Intelligent immunosuppression?
At ASN Kidney Week there was some interest in abatacept as a targeted therapy for glomerular diseases. T-cell activation requires 2 signals; (i) binding of the T-cell receptor to the antigen-MHC complex on the antigen-presenting cell and (ii)…
Ultrasound and Nephrologists
Registration has opened for the Spring session of the Ultrasound course for Nephrologists at Emory University. It will be held on Feb 1-2 2014, in Atlanta. The brochure for the upcoming course is available here.