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Brian Rifkin
The Ondansetron Ballet: Torsades de Pointes

Nausea is a very common and distressing problem. Some medications that treat nausea carry a higher risk for arrhythmias, like Torsades de Pointes, and sudden cardiac death. Is ondansetron safe for use in patients on hemodialysis?

The Ondansetron Ballet: Torsades de Pointes
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Cristina Adriana Popa
Re”FINE”ing the role of non steroidal MRAs in ...

This week, we will discuss non-steroidal mineralocorticoid antagonist in the multiverse of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic. What FINEHEART pooled analysis would add to what we already learned from FIDELIO-DKD trial?

Re”FINE”ing the role of non steroidal MRAs in Cardio Kidney Metabolic syndrome
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Cristina Adriana Popa
Playing It Safe: Can Felzartamab Fill the Gap ...

This week is time antibody mediated rejection treatment in kidney transplant. A new molecule targeting CD38, on the horizon, safely tested in a phase 2 trial

Playing It Safe: Can Felzartamab Fill the Gap in AMR Treatment?
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Jade Teakell
The pressure is on! Unravelling the ESPRIT of ...

This week, we will discuss the ongoing saga of blood pressure targets in patients with hypertension. This time its ESPRIT (Effects of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment in Reducing Risk of Vascular Events) making a case for case for intensive BP control in most hypertensive individuals, including those with a history of diabetes and stroke.

The pressure is on! Unravelling the ESPRIT of Intensive vs Standard BP Control
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joel topf
Summer Book Club 2024. The Covenant of Water

The NephJC Summer Book Club returns! We turn to fiction this time, 'The Covenant of Water', from Abraham Verghese.

Summer Book Club 2024. The Covenant of Water

nephjc history

The ASN Kidney Week NephJC Party

The Friday night tradition of Blogger Night goes back to Philadelphia in 2011

2012 in San Diego (This was everybody who was there)

2015, first class of NSMC graduates at Kidney Week, San Diego

2016, second class. Birth of the NephJC Kidneys. Chicago.

2018 the first NephJC self-funded party. San Diego.

2019, the year before the pandemic. Epic.

2023 The first live Freely Filtered is recorded. And The Curbsiders

2024

This year will be no different. We have rented out Deck655, a mile from the conference center for this year’s party. Mark your calendars, Friday, October 25th from 7 to 11 pm, this will be the place to be.

At 8, we will have a show. The includes an interview of Tom Mueller author of How to Make a Killing. Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine (Amazon). Music by Tim Yau (@Maximal_Change) and a live podcast recording of Freely Filtered as we draft Friday’s Late Breaking and High Impact Clinical Trials.

Open bar

Appetizers and food served all night

The catch is, you have to pay. Our fall fund raiser opens this week and we need you to donate to come to the party. Click the link below to donate!

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Humble beginnings

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I had thought of starting a Nephrology Journal club ever since I wrote about eJC on PBFluids. In fact if you look at my suggestions for how to improve CJASN eJC, you will see the skeleton for the current #NephJC. But ideas are cheap and I never did anything about it.

In the middle of NephMadness last year I received a tweet from from Swapnil suggesting that someone do a Nephrology Twitter Journal Club. I told him it was a great idea but that I had my hands full with NephMadness and that he should write me after the contest ended.

Literally moments after we announced the winner of NephMadness, Swapnil e-mails me about the journal club. I told him to do some research on how twitter journal clubs work and write a post on Medium. I half hoped he would drop the ball and go away but he published it on April 17. A week later we collaborated on a tighter introduction, also published on Medium (we didn't yet have our SquareSpace sight) And five days after that we held our first NephJC.