Nephrology Experts & Viewpoints

A Market for Compassion: Single-Payer Health Insurance Prajwal Ciryam, second-year MD/PhD student at Northwestern University and Co-Founding Member of Health Care for All Illinois, explains why an American single-payer system is right.
Commentary, September 2008
Hand Hygiene: How Can We Improve? Lisa Maragakis, MD, reviews in her videoblog the serious challenges of measuring and improving hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare setting.
Commentary, September 2008
Alemtuzumab Preconditioning with Tacrolimus Monotherapy After Renal Transplantation In this video blog Ron Shapiro, MD discusses a novel approach to immunosuppression in renal transplant recipients using preconditioning and spaced immunosuppression.
Commentary, August 2008
Contrast Media Reactions Pose Serious Risk of Nephropathy Iodinated contrast media perform an important function in imaging, but they also can increase the risk for morbidity and mortality due to nephropathy.
Expert Column, August 2008
When and How Should Clinicians Diagnose Secondary Hypertension? True secondary hypertension represents only about 5% of patients -- in his video blog Dr. Black presents detailed criteria for how clinicians can efficiently assess its possible causes.
Commentary, August 2008
Antibody-Mediated Rejection of the Renal Graft After SKP Transplantation In one of the first reports of AMR in SKPT, the authors document the clinical significance of positive C4d immunostaining in renal allograft biopsies in SKPT recipients with graft dysfunction.
Commentary, August 2008
Short vs Long Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Acute Pyelonephritis in Children A study published in the March 2008 issue of Pediatrics looks at whether a short course of IV antibiotics will result in more scarring than a long course.
Commentary, August 2008
Why Should I Report an Adverse Drug Event? Individual clinicians can play a vital role in detecting potentially serious adverse drug events -- and the safety of our drug supply depends on them.
Expert Column, August 2008
Renal Allocation and the Perception of Fairness In this video blog Ron Shapiro, MD discusses the fairness of policies in the United States that shift organ allocation from older to younger recipients.
Commentary, August 2008
ACCORD, ADVANCE, AVOID: What Do They Tell Us About Treating our Patients? The ACCORD results were negative (for the primary endpoint), the ADVANCE results were positive. Dr. Black compares and contrasts these results with those of the AVOID study.
Commentary, August 2008

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In a nationally representative cohort study of 13,000 patients, low vitamin D levels were found to be linked to an increased risk for death. The lead investigator says that the size of the study helps make the results more generalizable, and she is calling for a randomized controlled trial on this issue. How will this finding affect your practice?

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Alemtuzumab Preconditioning with Tacrolimus Monotherapy After Renal Transplantation In this video blog Ron Shapiro, MD discusses a novel approach to immunosuppression in renal transplant recipients using preconditioning and spaced immunosuppression.
Commentary, August 2008

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