This month’s CJASN e-journal club was hosted at the Department of Nephrology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. It discussed a trial designed to investigate the efficacy of an intensive low salt diet intervention (weekly 30 minutes phone feedback…
There has been a flurry of publications in the field of hyperkalemia with 3 separate trials of oral potassium binding agents within a week of each other (Sodium Zirconium in JAMA, and NEJM and Patiromer in NEJM) and…
The Nephrology twitter journal club will come to life on Saturday 15th November at Kidney Week in Philadelphia. NephJC co-founders Dr Joel Topf and Dr Swapnil Hiremath will co-host the event at the Double Tree hotel. There will…
Two ASN-related activities to mention happening in the next couple of months. First, CJASN eJC will be hosting a twitter conversation about the recently published commentary “Training the Next Generation’s Nephrology Workforce. This will be hosted by Amar…
The next Nephrology online journal club (#NephJC) will discuss the results of the CORONARY Trial, presented at the late breaking session at the ASN and published this year in JAMA. The trial compared patients undergoing their first coronary…
The next Nephrology Twitter Journal Club (@NephJC) will discuss the POSEIDON Trial which has been published in The Lancet. Interest in the prevention of Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) is alive and well with several novel approaches/therapies being recently…
The next Nephrology Twitter Journal Club (@NephJC) will discuss a study in JASN describing the use of Atrasentan, a selective Endothelin-A receptor blocker, in diabetic kidney disease. This is the latest attempt to resurrect this class of agents…
The inaugural Nephrology Twitter Journal Club kicks off tomorrow evening, that’s Tuesday April 29th, at 9pm Eastern time. The article being discussed concerns the implementation of a kidney disease screening and education program and its impact on ESRD…
CJASN’s eJournal Club has recently been revamped with host institutions presenting a chosen article at their hospital on a rotational basis and feeback gathered by the host center. This month’s journal club was hosted by the Division of…
This month’s eJournal club concerns a paper published by a fellow from our institution that attempts to get to the bottom of an interesting question: in patients with a high interdialytic weight gain (IDWG), is the dialysis session…
