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Advancing American Kidney Health: The Ultimate RCT? President Trump's Executive Order puts nephrology center stage. Tejas Desai, MD, reviews what the initiative entails for kidney disease clinicians and what details are yet to come.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 19, 2019
Out With the Old, in With the New: The Role of Novelty Bias Are we overenamored of new drugs and treatments at the expense of older, proven therapies? The recent hoopla over CREDENCE and SONAR set Tejas Desai, MD, to ponder novelty bias.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 12, 2019
Phosphate Binders and Transport Inhibitors on FGF-23 in CKD Nisha Bansal, MD, reviews the COMBINE trial on nicotinamide and lanthanum carbonate and changes in phosphate and fibroblast growth factor-23 levels in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 28, 2019
Renin or Lactate to Predict Hospital Death? A new proof- of-concept study underscores the need to find a reliable marker of microvascular hypoperfusion.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 13, 2019
Urinary Oxalate and CKD Progression: Is There an Association? Dr Bansal reviews a study that examines whether higher urinary oxalate excretion predisposes patients to kidney disease progression.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 02, 2019
No Firm Answers for Kidneys From LIRICO and VALID Studies Is dual RAS blockade in patients with diabetes with kidney disease beneficial? Dr Desai reviews two studies designed to answer that question.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 26, 2019
Burden of CKD in the United States: What Have We Learned? Dr Desai discusses 'epi' studies aiming to identify underresourced areas that require more financial and human capital.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 05, 2019
Two Therapies for Treating Depression in Dialysis Patients Dr Bansal describes a new study that compares CBT and sertraline for depressed patients on hemodialysis for end- stage renal disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 01, 2019
B-cell Depletion in Nephrotic Syndrome: Latest on Rituximab Dr Desai shares his views on a recent study examining the efficacy of rituximab in treating patients with relapsing, steroid-dependent, and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 27, 2019
New RBI for Kidney Allografts: Can It Replace Routine Tests? Dr Desai reviews a study examining the usefulness of a new renal biopsy index (1-RBI). Could it be used in place of invasive routine biopsies in deceased-donor kidney transplant recipients?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 14, 2019
ARBs/ACEIs After AKI: Balancing Tradeoffs Dr Bansal reviews a study that provides important data on the use of RAAS inhibitors after acute kidney injury--an understudied clinical topic.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 20, 2018
Do Neprilysin Inhibitors Have a Role in Patients With CKD? Dr Desai reviews the UK HARP-III trial, which compares the effects of sacubitril/valsartan and irbesartan on kidney function in people with CKD.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 14, 2018
Metformin and the Risk for Lactic Acidosis in CKD Dr Bansal reviews several studies that evaluate the safety of metformin in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 30, 2018
Rituximab Over Tacrolimus in Steroid-Dependent Nephrotic Syndrome? Dr Desai reviews recent trials comparing steroid-sparing agents used to treat corticosteroid-dependent children with nephrotic syndrome.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 30, 2018
Peritoneal Dialysis Offers Flexibility in Austere Environments Dr Desai highlights a number of unique aspects of peritoneal dialysis that make it attractive in difficult situations.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 26, 2018
Acute Pyelonephritis: A Three-Pillar Approach for Clinicians Dr Desai reviews a decision algorithm for treating patients with acute pyelonephritis, published in NEJM.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 18, 2018
POCUS for Catheter Placement: Relevance to Nephrology Dr Desai states why nephrologists should consider ultrasound-based catheter confirmation in lieu of chest x-rays.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 14, 2018
Can Drinking More Water Forestall CKD Progression? Dr Desai describes a rare phenomenon in the current field of nephrology: an RCT, this one looking at whether increasing water intake improves kidney function.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 30, 2018
Spironolactone Over Clonidine in Resistant HTN: Do You Agree? Dr Desai asks, would you consider spironolactone for treating patients with resistant hypertension?
Experts And Viewpoints, August 02, 2018
Diabetes and Progression of CKD: Does Race Matter? Dr Bansal reviews a study that examined the incidence and progression of kidney disease in black versus white individuals with type 2 diabetes; it shines a light on racial disparities in access to care.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 25, 2018

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