swapnil hiremath

September 30, 2016

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Could it be that Simple: A Vitamin to Protect the Kidney?

swapnil hiremath

September 30, 2016

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Could it be that Simple: A Vitamin to Protect the Kidney?

Hyperhomocysteinemia was all the rage a few years ago. Sadly, as is often the case, trials to lwoer homocysteine failed to show much clinical benefit. Now comes a trial to test the effect of follic acid, on CKD prevention. With an N > 15,000 - this should make for an interesting NephJC discussion.

swapnil hiremath

September 29, 2016

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#NephJC on the facebook app: wrap up

swapnil hiremath

September 29, 2016

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We had a few hiccups for this chat: the authors, Komal Kumar, Betsy King did join us for the first chat - and so did some other staff from Hopkins ERGOT workgroup, but twitter gave a lot of troubles the next day. Tweets were not showing up - so we called it a day, and rescheduled the chat to Sep 28. Things did work out this time!

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September 19, 2016

TWiN (The Week in Nephrology) 19 Sep 2016

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September 19, 2016

TWiN (The Week in Nephrology) 19 Sep 2016

This week a pair of articles from NEJM on appraisal of positive and negative trials, a review on sepsis, an NKF resource on emergency meal planning for dialysis patients and more...

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September 19, 2016

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Need a Kidney? There's an App for that

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September 19, 2016

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Talking to people about donating a kidney is very difficult. This week's NephJC looks at an app that helps recipients talk about their disease and why they need someone to donate a kidney. The app is backed up by a study to support its efficacy.

swapnil hiremath

September 8, 2016

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Does Regional Anesthesia Improve Fistula failure rates? The #NephJC wrapup

swapnil hiremath

September 8, 2016

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We had some great discussion about the trial - and its applicability. Featured input from vascular surgery, anesthesia - and first author Emma Aitken!

View the story "Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?" on Storify

American chat Transcript

View the story "Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?" on Storify

EU chat Transcript

joel topf

September 7, 2016

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Storify for the Tuesday Vascular Access chat

joel topf

September 7, 2016

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Hector was quick on the draw and had last night's chat all summarised by sunrise the next morning. Here for your reading pleasure.

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September 5, 2016

TWiN (The Week in Nephrology) 5 Sep 2016

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September 5, 2016

TWiN (The Week in Nephrology) 5 Sep 2016

TWIN brings you a series of Acid Base reviews, a debate on CNI use in LN, living donor communication issues and much more!

swapnil hiremath

September 1, 2016

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Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?

swapnil hiremath

September 1, 2016

Background

Fistula Failure: Can Anesthesia Solve our Vexing Vascular Access Problems?

Historically nephrology is a specialty that has been criticized for it’s inability to produce high quality randomized controlled clinical trials designed to answer a specific question. So, when the Lancet publishes the results of a clinical trial in the field it is worth taking note.