This week, we will be discussing a randomized controlled trial of eculizumab in STEC-HUS. Will eculizumab manage to surpass its well-established reputation as expensivumab and demonstrate some positive results?
MesoAmerican Nephropathy: More Light on the Heat Hypothesis?
Antibiotics are bad, the Stone Edition
Longer is Better, Except when it is Not, Really: Hemodialysis Edition
Does an AKI episode Impact Subsequent Pregnancy?
Walk your way away from hospitalizations.
We had two good chats in the shadow of the impending Holiday vacation. Here are the summaries:
Does Contrast cause acute Kidney Injury?
Iodinated contrast is well known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI), mainly from its physico-chemical properties, and is the commonly cited as being the third most common cause of AKI in hospitalized patients. But is this really true? Even the term contrast-induced AKI (CI-AKI) is now being increasingly replaced by contrast-associated AKI (CA-AKI), and could contrast be an 'innocent bystander'?
