This week, we will discuss the use of 3K dialysis bath with sodium zirconium cyclosilicate versus 2K bath and no potassium lowering medications in dialysis patients and the associated risk of arrhythmia.
This week, we will discuss post-trial follow-up for EMPA-Kidney. What are the longer-term effects of empagliflozin for patients with chronic kidney disease?
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?
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?
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
The NephJC Summer Book Club returns! Start reading F. Perry Wilson’sHow Medicine Works and When It Doesn't so you can join us August 8th and 9th for book club!
This week we discuss the AKi Alert trial from BMJ. Surely alerting us to AKI earlier will be helpful, right? Maybe - or maybe not. Join us to discuss this very important trial with some counter intuitive results.
SGLT2i are the wonder drug for our age. But do we know how they work? How does their natriuretic effect actually work? Let’s dig deeper into this week’s mechanistic study that explores this question