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Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Indian Subcontinent

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Global Considerations in Kidney Disease: Indian Subcontinent

Key points • Community-acquired acute kidney injury (AKI) secondary to tropical infections, use of indigenous drugs, toxic envenomation, and obstetric factors are some of the common causes of AKI in…

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Classification and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Classification and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

Key Points • The 2012 Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes classification system for chronic kidney disease (CKD) provides simple risk stratification and serves as a convenient framework for guiding management…

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Ethical Dilemmas Facing Nephrology

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Ethical Dilemmas Facing Nephrology

Key Points • Ethical issues facing nephrology played a fundamental role in early development of the field of bioethics. Because dialysis and kidney transplantation predated many other types of life-sustaining…

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Hematologic Aspects of Kidney Disease

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Hematologic Aspects of Kidney Disease

Key Points • Anemia is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease (CKD), which profoundly affects a patient´s well-being and is associated with adverse health outcomes. • The prevalence of anemia…

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Stem Cells, Kidney Regeneration, and Gene and Cell Therapy in Nephrology

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Stem Cells, Kidney Regeneration, and Gene and Cell Therapy in Nephrology

Key Points • Effective approaches to arrest and reverse progressive chronic kidney disease are limited to several specific etiologies, and restoration of loss nephron function remains to be reliably achieved….

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Onconephrology: Kidney Disease and Cancer

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Onconephrology: Kidney Disease and Cancer

Key Points • Acute and chronic kidney disease are common complications in patients with cancer and are primarily due to the underlying malignancy or its treatment. Study of the growing…

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Kidney Supportive Care in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Kidney Supportive Care in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease

Key points • “Kidney supportive care” (KSC) is replacing the term “kidney palliative care.” KSC is an approach that aims to improve the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for people…

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Care of the Older Adult With Chronic Kidney Disease

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Care of the Older Adult With Chronic Kidney Disease

Key points • Changes in muscle mass have a large impact on the most used equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate. This has a greater impact on older adults, particularly…

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Peritoneal Dialysis

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Peritoneal Dialysis

Key Points • Contemporary PD prescriptions emphasize goal-directed therapy, taking into account lifestyle factors, residual kidney function, and peritoneal membrane characteristics, with incremental PD offering a gradual approach to dialysis…

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Nephrolithiasis

May 7, 2026 by drzezo in NEPHROLOGY Comments Off on Nephrolithiasis

Nephrolithiasis (aliases: kidney stone disease, urolithiasis) is the abnormal formation and retention of solid-phase inorganic and organic concretions in the lumen of the urinary tract. Nephrolithiasis is not a diagnosis…

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