Submissions from 2019
Message From the CRN Chair, Kristen Nonahal
Warning: Kidney Virus Detected, James E. Novak
Contrast Nephropathy Associated with Percutaneous Coronary Angiography and Intervention, James E. Novak and Richa Handa
Clostridioides difficile Infection in Chronic Kidney Disease/End-Stage Renal Disease, Mayur Ramesh and Jerry Yee
Key Updates in Cardio-Nephrology from 2018: Springboard to a Bright Future, Janani Rangaswami, Sandeep Soman, and Peter A. McCullough
Vaccination in Chronic Kidney Disease, Snigdha Reddy, Chandrika Chitturi, and Jerry Yee
Hypertension and Pregnancy: Management and Future Risks, Snigdha Reddy and Belinda Jim
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus after esophagectomy in a patient with remote history of lithium treatment: A case report, Dania Shakaroun, Hassan Nasser, Semeret Munie, and Sandeep Soman
Biomarkers of rejection in kidney transplantation, Neeraj Singh, Hrishikesh Samant, Alan Hawxby, and Millie D. Samaniego
Pathophysiology and Treatment of Hepatitis B and C Infections in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease, Vivek Soi, Chantale Daifi, Jerry Yee, and Elizabeth Adams
Preventing Hepatitis B in the Dialysis Unit, Vivek Soi and Sandeep Soman
Primary care physicians' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to management of chronic kidney disease: A mixed methods study, C J. Sperati, Sandeep Soman, Varun Agrawal, Yang Liu, Khaled Abdel-Kader, Clarissa J. Diamantidis, Michelle M. Estrella, Kerri Cavanaugh, Laura Plantinga, Jane Schell, James Simon, Joseph A. Vassalotti, Michael J. Choi, Bernard G. Jaar, and Raquel C. Greer
Dr Conn Lives on: Insights Into Screening and Genetics of Primary Aldosteronism, Debbie L. Stein and Jerry Yee
Emphysematous pyelonephritis in renal allograft related to antibody-mediated rejection: A case report and literature review, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Lauren Malinzak, Mohamed Safwan, Dean Kim, Anita Patel, and Jason E. Denny
Hypertension: A Common but Complex Condition, Kausik Umanath
Correction to: Health care providers' support of patients' autonomy, phosphate medication adherence, race and gender in end-stage renal disease, Ebele M. Umeukeje, Joseph R. Merighi, Teri Browne, Marcus Wild, Hafez Alsmaan, Kausik Umanath, Julia B. Lewis, Kenneth A. Wallston, and Kerri L. Cavanaugh
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease as Syntopicon, Jerry Yee
A Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Signature to Diagnose Subclinical Acute Rejection, Weijia Zhang, Zhengzi Yi, Karen L. Keung, Huimin Shang, Chengguo Wei, Paolo Cravedi, Zeguo Sun, Caixia Xi, Christopher Woytovich, Samira Farouk, Weiqing Huang, Khadija Banu, Lorenzo Gallon, Ciara N. Magee, Nader Najafian, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Arjang Djamali, Stephen I. Alexander, Ivy A. Rosales, Rex N. Smith, Jenny Xiang, Evelyne Lerut, Dirk Kuypers, Maarten Naesens, Philip J. O'Connell, Robert Colvin, Madhav C. Menon, and Barbara Murphy
Submissions from 2018
Long-term decline in renal function is more significant after endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms, Ziad Al Adas, Alexander D. Shepard, Timothy Nypaver, Mitchell R. Weaver, Thomas Maatman, Lenar T. Yessayan, Praveen Balraj, and Loay S. Kabbani
How arteriovenous grafts could help to optimize vascular access management, Anatole Besarab and Lalathaksha Kumbar
Corrigendum to 'Reactivation of BK polyomavirus during pregnancy, vertical transmission, and clinical significance: A meta-analysis' [J Clin Virol 102 (2018) 56-62], Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Charat Thongprayoon, Iasmina M. Craici, Konika Sharma, Supavit Chesdachai, Nadeen J. Khoury, and Amy S. Ettore
Reactivation of BK polyomavirus during pregnancy, vertical transmission, and clinical significance: A meta-analysis, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Charat Thongprayoon, Iasmina M. Craici, Konika Sharma, Supavit Chesdachai, Nadeen J. Khoury, and Amy S. Ettore
Diuretics in the Management of Cardiorenal Syndrome, Chandrika Chitturi and James E. Novak
High sodium continuous veno-venous hemodialysis with regional citrate anticoagulation and online dialysate generation in patients with acute liver failure and cerebral edema, Tamim Hamdi, Lenar Yessayan, Jerry Yee, and Balazs Szamosfalvi
Change in Lactate Levels After Hemodialysis in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease, Justin J. Hourmozdi, Jasreen Gill, Joseph B. Miller MD, Abraham Markin, Beth Adams, Vivek Soi, Anja K. Jaehne, Ashley Taylor, Sam Langberg, Lauren Rodriguez, Carynne Fox, Junior Uduman, Lenar T. Yessayan, and Emanuel Rivers
Family consultation to reduce early hospital readmissions among patients with end stage kidney disease: A randomized controlled trial, Matthew J. Jasinski, Mark A. Lumley, Sandeep Soman, Jerry Yee, and Mark W. Ketterer
Mentorship in Medicine and Nephrology: More Important Than Ever, Belinda Jim and Jerry Yee
Digital gangrene and pneumatosis intestinalis associated with calciphylaxis, Qingwen Kawaji, Erik B. Eller, Jerry Yee, and Judith C. Lin
Coronal mode ultrasound guided hemodialysis cannulation: A pilot randomized comparison with standard cannulation technique, Lalathaksha Kumbar, Vivek Soi, Elizabeth Adams, Cheryl Brown-Deacon, Mohamed Zidan, and Jerry Yee
Nephrocalcinosis: A Diagnostic Conundrum, Lalathaksha Kumbar and Jerry Yee
Organ Donation Attitudes Among Individuals With Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease, Caitlin Loughery, Ann M. Andrews, Nanhua Zhang, Allyce Haney Smith, Ken Resnicow, Remonia Chapman, Holly J. Riley, Sheri Stav, and Jerry Yee
Cardiorenal Syndrome: A Call to Action for a Pressing Medical Issue, Peter A. McCullough and Sandeep Soman
Measurement of Glomerular Filtration Rate as a Diagnostic Test: Old Limitations and New Directions and Challenges Worthy of an Olympic Gold Medal, Donald A. Molony and Jerry Yee
Novel intraoperative management in the model for end-stage liver disease-sodium era: Continuous venovenous hemofiltration for severe hyponatremia in liver transplantation, Shunji Nagai, Dilip Moonka, and Anita Patel
Liver alone or simultaneous liver-kidney transplant? Pretransplant chronic kidney disease and post-transplant outcome - a retrospective study, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Kelly Collins, Randolph E. Schilke, Michael Rizzari, Dilip Moonka, Kimberly A. Brown, Anita Patel, Atsushi Yoshida, and Marwan Abouljoud
Emergent airway management in a patient with in situ tracheal stent: A lesson learned, Jose R. Navas-Blanco, Junior Uduman, and Javier Diaz-Mendoza
Impact of Acute Kidney Injury and CKD on Adverse Outcomes in Critically Ill Septic Patients, Javier A. Neyra, Federica Mescia, Xilong Li, Beverley Adams-Huet, Lenar Yessayan, Jerry Yee, Robert D. Toto, and Orson W. Moe
Dabigatran Reversal in a Patient With End-Stage Liver Disease and Acute Kidney Injury, James E. Novak, Khalid Alamiri, and Jerry Yee
In Reply to 'Idarucizumab Dosing in Kidney Failure', James E. Novak, Khalid Alamiri, and Jerry Yee
Diabetes and the Kidney: Sweet Dreams, James E. Novak and Jerry Yee
Complications and adequacy of transplant kidney biopsies: A comparison of techniques, Brett W. Plattner, Pauline Chen, Richard Cross, Matthew A. Leavitt, Paul D. Killen, and Michael Heung
Project HELP: a study protocol to pilot test a shared decision-making tool about treatment options for patients with hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease, M C. Politi, N George, T Li, K M. Korenblat, K J. Fowler, C Ho, A Liapakis, D Roth, and Jerry Yee
It Is Really Time for Ammonium Measurement, Kalani L. Raphael and Jerry Yee
Magnesium Balance and Measurement, Snigdha Reddy, Sandeep S. Soman, and Jerry Yee
Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment on Acute Kidney Injury Events in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT), Michael V. Rocco, Kaycee M. Sink, Laura C. Lovato, Dawn F. Wolfgram, Thomas B. Wiegmann, Barry M. Wall, Kausik Umanath, Frederic Rahbari-Oskoui, Anna C. Porter, Roberto Pisoni, Cora E. Lewis, Julia B. Lewis, James P. Lash, Lois A. Katz, Amret T. Hawfield, William E. Haley, Barry I. Freedman, Jamie P. Dwyer, Paul E. Drawz, Mirela Dobre, Alfred K. Cheung, Ruth C. Campbell, Udayan Bhatt, Srinivasan Beddhu, Paul L. Kimmel, David M. Reboussin, and Glenn M. Chertow
A Tale of Two Failures: A Guide to Shared Decision-Making for Heart and Renal Failure, Hesham Shaban and Jerry Yee
Allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of AKI after cardiac surgery, Madhav Swaminathan, Mark Stafford-Smith, Glenn M. Chertow, David G. Warnock, Viken Paragamian, Robert M. Brenner, François Lellouche, Alison Fox-Robichaud, Mohamed G. Atta, Spencer Melby, Ravindra L. Mehta, Ron Wald, Subodh Verma, C. David Mazer, F. Willem Lombard, Jacob Schroder, Joanne Kurtzberg, Tiffany Bisnar, John Conte, Jeffrey Dodd-O, Hamid Rabb, Nevin Katz, Ashish Shah, Elizabeth Huyette-Arrizza, Chris Bellot, Robert Kramer, Betsey Tolson, Richard Solomon, Charles Brooks, Christina Mora-Mangano, Jimmy Wong, and Kianoush Kashani
Epidemiology and Prognostic Importance of Atrial Fibrillation in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Meta-Analysis, Charat Thongprayoon, Ronpichai Chokesuwattanaskul, Tarun Bathini, Nadeen J. Khoury, Konika Sharma, Patompong Ungprasert, Narut Prasitlumkum, Narothama R. Aeddula, Kanramon Watthanasuntorn, Sohail A. Salim, Wisit Kaewput, Felicitas L. Koller, and Wisit Cheungpasitporn
Epidemiology of Cardiorenal Syndrome, Junior Uduman
Pseudo-Renal Tubular Acidosis: Conditions Mimicking Renal Tubular Acidosis, Junior Uduman and Jerry Yee
Diabetic Kidney Disease: The Tiger May Have New Stripes, Kausik Umanath and Julia B. Lewis
Update on Diabetic Nephropathy: Core Curriculum 2018, Kausik Umanath and Julia B. Lewis
Leadership as Tribal Leader, Jerry Yee
Magnesium: An Important Orphan, Jerry Yee
Submissions from 2017
Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience, Bassam G. Abu Jawdeh, Anthony C. Leonard, Yuvraj Sharma, Swapna Katipally, Adele R. Shields, Rita R. Alloway, E S. Woodle, and Charuhas V. Thakar
Food Insecurity, CKD, and Subsequent ESRD in US Adults, Tanushree Banerjee, Deidra C. Crews, Donald E. Wesson, Sai Dharmarajan, Rajiv Saran, Nilka Ríos Burrows, Sharon Saydah, Neil R. Powe, Chi yuan Hsu, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Charles McCulloch, Vanessa Grubbs, Carmen Peralta, Michael Shlipak, Anna Rubinsky, Raymond Hsu, Josef Coresh, Delphine Tuot, Diane Steffick, Brenda Gillespie, William Herman, Friedrich Port, Bruce Robinson, Vahakn Shahinian, Jerry Yee, Eric Young, William McClellan, Ann O'Hare, Melissa Fava, Anca Tilea, Desmond Williams, and Mark Eberhardt
Potential Deaths Averted and Serious Adverse Events Incurred From Adoption of the SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) Intensive Blood Pressure Regimen in the United States: Projections From NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey), Adam P. Bress, Holly Kramer, Rasha Khatib, Srinivasan Beddhu, Alfred K. Cheung, Rachel Hess, Vinod K. Bansal, Guichan Cao, Jerry Yee, Andrew E. Moran, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Paul Muntner, and Richard S. Cooper
Effects of Intensive BP Control in CKD, Alfred K. Cheung, Mahboob Rahman, David M. Reboussin, Timothy E. Craven, Tom Greene, Paul L. Kimmel, William C. Cushman, Amret T. Hawfield, Karen C. Johnson, Cora E. Lewis, Suzanne Oparil, Michael V. Rocco, Kaycee M. Sink, Paul K. Whelton, Jackson T. Wright, Jan Basile, Srinivasan Beddhu, Udayan Bhatt, Tara I. Chang, Glenn M. Chertow, Michel Chonchol, Barry I. Freedman, William Haley, Joachim H. Ix, Lois A. Katz, Anthony A. Killeen, Vasilios Papademetriou, Ana C. Ricardo, Karen Servilla, Barry Wall, Dawn Wolfgram, and Jerry Yee
KDOQI US Commentary on the 2017 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD), Tamara Isakova, Thomas L. Nickolas, Michelle Denburg, Sri Yarlagadda, Daniel E. Weiner, Orlando M. Gutiérrez, Vinod Bansal, Sylvia E. Rosas, Sagar Nigwekar, Jerry Yee, and Holly Kramer
Phase 2 Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of RG7667, a Combination Monoclonal Antibody, for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Infection in High-Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients, Julie H. Ishida, Anita Patel, Aneesh K. Mehta, Philippe Gatault, Jacqueline M. McBride, Tracy Burgess, Michael A. Derby, David R. Snydman, Brinda Emu, Becket Feierbach, Ashley E. Fouts, Mauricio Maia, Rong Deng, Carrie M. Rosenberger, Lynn A. Gennaro, Natalee S. Striano, X C. Liao, and Jorge A. Tavel
Adherence rates to ferric citrate as compared to active control in patients with end stage kidney disease on dialysis, Diana Jalal, Molly McFadden, Jamie P. Dwyer, Kausik Umanath, Erwin Aguilar, Yoram Yagil, Barbara Greco, Mohammed Sika, Julia B. Lewis, Tom Greene, and Simin Goral
Indicators of Cognitive Impairment From a Medical Record Review: Correlations With Early (30-d) Readmissions Among Hospitalized Patients in a Nephrology Unit, Matthew J. Jasinski, Mark A. Lumley, Sandeep Soman, Jerry Yee, and Mark W. Ketterer
Renal Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature, E Liquete, Sean R. Williamson, Nalini Janakiraman, and K K. Venkat
Learning From Kids, Alicia Neu and Jerry Yee
Tacrolimus as a Rare Cause of Pericardial Effusion in a Renal Transplant Recipient, Rohini Prashar, Diana Stewart, and Ankush Moza
Sodium Homeostasis in Chronic Kidney Disease, Vivek Soi and Jerry Yee
Nephrology and Telehealth: Now? or Now!, Sandeep Soman and Jerry Yee
Perioperative Ketorolac Use: A Potential Risk Factor for Renal Dysfunction After Live-Donor Nephrectomy, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Anita Patel, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Krishna G. Putchakayala, William J. Kane, Lauren Malinzak, Jason E. Denny, Atsushi Yoshida, and Dean Y. Kim
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Review of Treatment of Cardiorenal Syndrome, Kausik Umanath and Sitaramesh Emani
The safety of achieved iron stores and their effect on IV iron and ESA use: post-hoc results from a randomized trial of ferric citrate as a phosphate binder in dialysis, Kausik Umanath, Barbara Greco, Diana I. Jalal, Molly McFadden, Mohammed Sika, Mark J. Koury, Robert Niecestro, Lawrence G. Hunsicker, Tom Greene, Julia B. Lewis, and Jamie P. Dwyer
Long-term Follow-up of Kidney Transplant Recipients in the Spare-the-Nephron-Trial, Matthew R. Weir, Thomas C. Pearson, Anita Patel, V R. Peddi, Roberto Kalil, John Scandling, Lawrence Chan, Prabhakar Baliga, Larry Melton, Shamkant Mulgaonkar, Thomas Waid, Heidi Schaefer, Nasser Youssef, Lali Anandagoda, David McCollum, Sibylle Lawson, and Robert Gordon
The effect of respiration buffer composition on mitochondrial metabolism and function, Lucas C. Wollenman, Matthew R. Vander Ploeg, Mackinzie L. Miller, Yizhu Zhang, and Jason N. Bazil
Hyperkalemia: Inpatient PaniK, Jerry Yee
The Tubulointerstitium: Dark Matter, Jerry Yee
The AKI Clinic for Fragile Patients, Jerry Yee and Ruth C. Campbell
The Interdisciplinary Chronic Kidney Disease Clinic: End of the Beginning, Not Beginning of the End, Jerry Yee and Ruth C. Campbell
Bone-specific alkaline phosphatase and bone turnover in African American hemodialysis patients, Lenar Yessayan, Carol L. Moore, Mei Lu, and Jerry Yee
Effect of hyperchloremia on acute kidney injury in critically ill septic patients: a retrospective cohort study, Lenar Yessayan, Javier A. Neyra, Fabrizio Canepa-Escaro, George Vasquez-Rios, Michael Heung, Jerry Yee, and Jerry Yee
Submissions from 2016
Roxadustat (FG-4592): Correction of Anemia in Incident Dialysis Patients, Anatole Besarab, Elena Chernyavskaya, Igor Motylev, Evgeny Shutov, Lalathaksha Kumbar, Konstantin Gurevich, Daniel TM Chan, Robert Leong, Lona Poole, Ming Zhong, Khalil G. Saikali, Marietta Franco, Stefan Hemmerich, Kin-Hung P. Yu, and Thomas B. Neff
Diagnostic value of end tidal capnography in patients with hyperglycemia in the emergency department, Ralphe Bou Chebl, Bryan Madden, Justin Belsky, Elie Harmouche, and Lenar Yessayan
Smartphone Apps: A Patient's New Best Friend?, Tejas Desai, Jerry Yee, and Sandeep Soman
Ultrafiltration Rate Thresholds in Maintenance Hemodialysis: An NKF-KDOQI Controversies Report, Holly Kramer, Jerry Yee, Daniel E. Weiner, Vinod Bansal, Michael J. Choi, Laura Brereton, Jeffrey S. Berns, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Paul Scheel, and Michael Rocco
Iron Therapy Challenges for the Treatment of Nondialysis CKD Patients, Francesco Locatelli, Sandro Mazzaferro, and Jerry Yee
Donor-Specific Antibody Monitoring: Where Is the Beef?, Jeffrey Ma, Anita Patel, and Kathryn Tinckam
Erdheim-Chester Disease: A Rare Presentation of a Rare Disease, Melissa Matzumura, Javier Arias-Stella, and James E. Novak
The authors reply, Javier A. Neyra, Fabrizio Canepa-Escaro, Jerry Yee, and Lenar Yessayan
Cumulative Fluid Balance and Mortality in Septic Patients With or Without Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease, Javier A. Neyra, Xilong Li, Fabrizio Canepa-Escaro, Beverley Adams-Huet, Robert D. Toto, Jerry Yee, and S S. Hedayati
Dipstick albuminuria and acute kidney injury recovery in critically ill septic patients, Javier A. Neyra, Xilong Li, Lenar Yessayan, Beverley Adams-Huet, Jerry Yee, and Robert D. Toto
The Struggle for Optimization of Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation, Anita Patel and Milagros Samaniego-Picota
Immunosuppression Minimization and Avoidance Protocols: When Less Is Not More, Rohini Prashar and K K. Venkat
Oral Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitor Roxadustat (FG-4592) for the Treatment of Anemia in Patients with CKD, Robert Provenzano, Anatole Besarab, Chao H. Sun, Susan A. Diamond, John H. Durham, Jose L. Cangiano, Joseph R. Aiello, James E. Novak, Tyson Lee, Robert Leong, Brian K. Roberts, Khalil G. Saikali, Stefan Hemmerich, Lynda A. Szczech, Kin-Hung P. Yu, and Thomas B. Neff
Chronic Kidney Disease Classification in Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial: Comparison Using Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and CKD-Epidemiology Collaboration Definitions, Michael V. Rocco, Arlene Chapman, Glenn M. Chertow, Debbie Cohen, Jing Chen, Jeffrey A. Cutler, Matthew J. Diamond, Barry I. Freedman, Amret Hawfield, Eric Judd, Anthony A. Killeen, Kent Kirchner, Cora E. Lewis, Nicholas M. Pajewski, Barry M. Wall, and Jerry Yee
Prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections in patients on hemodialysis: challenges and management strategies, Vivek Soi, Carol L. Moore, Lalathaksha Kumbar, and Jerry Yee
Immunomodulatory Device Promotes a Shift of Circulating Monocytes to a Less Inflammatory Phenotype in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients, Balazs Szamosfalvi, Angela Westover, Deborah Buffington, Alexander Yevzlin, and H D. Humes
Arterioenteric fistula 12 years after kidney transplant, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Anita Patel, Krishna G. Putchakayala, Jason Denny, Dean Kim, and Lauren Malinzak
Orthostatic changes in systolic blood pressure among SPRINT participants at baseline, Raymond R. Townsend, Tara I. Chang, Debbie L. Cohen, William C. Cushman, Gregory W. Evans, Stephen P. Glasser, William E. Haley, Christine Olney, Suzanne Oparil, Rita Del Pinto, Roberto Pisoni, Addison A. Taylor, Kausik Umanath, Jackson T. Wright, and Joseph Yeboah
Health care providers' support of patients' autonomy, phosphate medication adherence, race and gender in end stage renal disease, Ebele M. Umeukeje, Joseph R. Merighi, Teri Browne, Marcus Wild, Hafez Alsmaan, Kausik Umanath, Julia B. Lewis, Kenneth A. Wallston, and Kerri L. Cavanaugh
Introduction of Biosimilar Therapeutics Into Nephrology Practice in the United States: Report of a Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation, Jay B. Wish, Chaim Charytan, Glenn M. Chertow, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Alan S. Kliger, Robert J. Rubin, Jerry Yee, and Steven Fishbane
Geriatric CKD: Value-Based Nephrology, Jerry Yee
