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swapnil hiremath
Metformin- Should I Stay or Should I Go

This week, we will discuss another target trial emulation study. The FDA says to stop metformin at a GFR of 30. Are they right?

Metformin- Should I Stay or Should I Go
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Brian Rifkin
KDIGO 2025 ADPKD Guidelines Review

This week, we will discuss the first iteration of KDIGO’s 2025 guidelines on ADPKD.  These guidelines are a result of a decade of global collaboration between physicians, researchers, advocates, and patients. The guidelines incorporate ADPKD-specific care as well as many general CKD management practice points.


KDIGO 2025 ADPKD Guidelines Review
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Cristina Adriana Popa
REGENCY: A B-Cell Super Destroyer in Lupus

This week, we will celebrate in advance World Kidney Day by discussing the results of OBInutuzumab in active lupus nephritis. The LUNAR trial (rituximab versus placebo) was “almost” positive, but not quite there. Would Obi overpower its cousin ritux? ✨

REGENCY: A B-Cell Super Destroyer in Lupus
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Cristina Adriana Popa
Hunting Primary Hyperaldosteronism: are MRAs a ...

This week, we will continue with February’s aldosterone leitmotif: do mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) truly blind the diagnostic in unilateral hypraldosteronism? Is this the article the mythbuster? Draw your own conclusions

Hunting Primary Hyperaldosteronism: are MRAs a blindfold in adrenal vein sampling?
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Brian Rifkin
Undercover Aldosterone

This week, we will discuss the origins of primary hyperaldosteronism in normotensive patients. Could this undetected anomaly be the cause of idiopathic hypertension and CKD?

Undercover Aldosterone

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Hungry Like The Wolf for New Lupus Nephritis Guidance

Hungry Like The Wolf for New Lupus Nephritis Guidance

This week, we will discuss the recently published KDIGO lupus guidelines. Published a couple of years after the big GN guidelines - let us dive in to see what’s new in lupus nephritis

Unlocking the door to living kidney donor paradise?

Unlocking the door to living kidney donor paradise?

This week, nephrologists hope they found the key to no-dialysis-land, where kindness and detailed, multistep interventions make the path to kidney transplant much easier. This was foreseen in our Freely Filtered episode and disputed during #KidneyWK 2023 late-breaking clinical trials session. Still, when it comes to RCTs’ results, will it be Deja Vu or a happy ending?