Episode 041: Matt Sparks and The Renal Fellow Network has been polling the community about the top nephrology stories of the year since 2010. Matt joins Swap and Joel to discuss the top stories of 2021.
Freely Filtered 040: Double CLICK for BP control in CKD stage 4
Freely Filtered 039: The First Annual ASN #KidneyWk Draft
Freely Filtered 038: AURORA1, a new treatment for Lupus Nephritis
Freely Filtered 037: The first Guideline Draft: KDIGO Hypertension Guidelines
Freely Filtered 036: AKIKI-2, How soon is now?
Episode 036 AKIKI-2. Nephrology has been the beneficiary of a handful of studies examining the impact of the timing of the initiation of dialysis in AKI. One of these trials, AKIKI, now has a genuine sequel. In 2016 AKIKI was the first multi-center RCT examining early initiation of dialysis versus late initiation of dialysis and showed that early initiation not only failed to improve patient outcomes but resulted in a significant number of patients receiving dialysis that would have recovered kidney function without intervention had they only been randomized to the late arm. Now five years later we are reviewing the sequel which asks the next logical question, “If delayed dialysis is as good as early dialysis is even later dialysis equivalent or even better?”