Freely Filtered 016 MinTac trial and COVID-19 Podcast No. 3

Joshua Waitz joins the full filtrate to discuss MinTac and COVID-19.

NephJC’s COVID-19 and the Kidney Patient

Cast:

Joel Topf

Swapnil Hiremath

Samira Farouk

Jennie Lin

Matt Sparks

And special guest Joshua Waitz

Show Notes:

Martin Pollak: http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033579.html

100 Days of COVID-19: https://www.voanews.com/episode/100-days-covid-19-4236811

MinTac: http://www.nephjc.com/news/mintac 

My magical experience with minimal change disease. This is not the actual tweet, but a dramatization: http://pbfluids.com/2020/04/the-magic-of-treating-minimal-change-disease/

Non-inferiority, NephJC: http://www.nephjc.com/news/2019/7/8/understanding-the-vortex-of-non-inferiority-trials 

Non-inferiority, through the looking glass: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21539749/ 

Kevin Fowler on Tacrolimus side effects: https://twitter.com/gratefull080504/status/1247697780736512000?s=20

Mt Sinai is converting some transplant patients from tacrolimus to belatecept: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1506027

CAPSULOLOGY: Open the “Images” tab https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-10097-6108/tacrolimus-oral/tacrolimus-oral/details

Tacrolimus for your cat and dog dry eye needs: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/tacrolimus-ophthalmic-in-dogs

WHO, NSAIDs, and double negatives: https://twitter.com/kidney_boy/status/1240452941187821570?s=20

CJASN stands for the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The C does not stand for Canada. Sorry Swap.

Conversion calculator from old world (SI) units, mg/mole Cr, to freedom units (gram protein / gram creatinine): http://www.scymed.com/en/smnxps/psdjf223.htm 

Michelle Rheault about starting the clock to relapse tweet: https://twitter.com/rheault_m/status/1247703322200596483?s=20 

Marvin Gonzalez calls for larger studies: https://twitter.com/MarvinGonzlez16/status/1247701186972733442?s=20 

Acute PD for COVID-19 is discussed in this article from CJASN: https://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/early/2020/04/03/CJN.03750320

PD for AKI, the experience from Brazil https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3525422/

The lead author, Daniela Ponce is really the world authority on PD and AKI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ponce%20D%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=22641732

Nursing home outbreaks in Durham: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241975401.html

Prison outbreak: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/06/827922287/inmates-staff-on-edge-as-covid-19-spreads-through-federal-prisons

Ottawa COVID-19: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/covid-19-long-term-care-outbreaks-continue-devastating-spread-across-ontario/

West Coast herd immunity: https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californias-possible-herd-immunity-to-covid-19/32073873#

The History of HIV associated Nephropathy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494840/

Racial breakdown of NYC coronavirus deaths reveals ‘disparities,’ de Blasio says https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/de-blasio-releases-racial-breakdown-data-of-coronavirus-deaths/

Michelle Rheault is tired: https://twitter.com/rheault_m/status/1248371721356402689?s=20

KidneyCon Lite! Saturday April 18 from 9-11. Kidney Pathology workshop.

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems: https://youtu.be/7KBkUyE6MOw

Dr Glaucomflecken and Telehealth: https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/1247709538322657282?s=20

NephSim for kindergartner’s https://nephsim.com

NephSim live: https://twitter.com/Neph_SIM/status/1247637727048327170?s=20