Nephrologists deported
Grants defunded
NIDDK folded into National Institute of body parts
AHRQ demolished
Now this…

When are our organizations going to speak up?

#NephSky

Hilarious (and sobering) essay on the use of AI in medical research & manuscript writing

Read the whole thing!

John Daugirdas has been on the cutting edge of tech in meded before #MedEd was thing

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#MedSky #NephSky

I am BEGGING major journals to stop platforming the current administration's politicization of the FDA, CDC, vaccines, etc

This sort of evidence-lite, glitzy puff piece seems appropriate for a newspaper OpEd, not a medical journal.

Platforming it in a major journal gives it the veneer of validity.

It's been a long journey but today we can share the methods and rationale for the #ACHIEVEtrial (Spiro vs placebo for patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance dialysis) and tomorrow we share the results at #era25
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Update to our supersaturation and kidney stone risk assessment tool:

We have added calcium to citrate ratios to the result section providing even greater risk assessment tools to the kit. Thanks very much to Vladimir Belostotsky for the idea!

ukidney.com/calculators/...

This systematic review shows blood pressure reduction from sodium reduction in the context of antihypertensive medication use.

Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

The “spurious“ measurement in pseudohyponatremia is actually the direct ISE. Nevertheless, it is most helpful, because it correlates with the plasma sodium activity as we are used to from non-lipemic/non-hyperproteinemic samples.

Yet, the labeling of row 4 is a little unfortunate: By calling it the “reported“ sodium concentration (instead of plasma concentration) they wrongfully imply, that the value is incorrect or “spuriously low“ -as they say in the text …

… and the approximate 5th percentile CKD-EPI 2009 reference values are easy to memorize👇👇👇👇

This is such a great resource:
www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
#nephrology #eGFR

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

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This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs

Amiloride was noninferior to spironolactone in lowering home systolic blood pressure at 12 weeks.

https://ja.ma/42XMGD9

RBC cast - brightfield with SM stain - from new case of MPA - #UrineMicroscopy #UrinarySediment

Thrilled to unveil the first-in-human use of #apelin in #hyponatremia at #ECE2025 in Copenhagen.
Endless gratitude to @christ-crain.bsky.social for championing bold research paths, and to @julierefardt.bsky.social and @fichapman.bsky.social, whose groundwork paved the way for this endeavor

This is absolutely amazing!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

🧵 Introducing the EQUIL2 Urinary Supersaturation Calculator

A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.

ukidney.com/calculators/...

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A quick #VEXUS thread 🧵-

3 reasons why the portal vein is the most useful single venous doppler waveform 🥇

(if you're only going to do ONE site to look for venous congestion, this is probably the most useful one!)

#emimcc

8/Simultaneous publication #ISNWCN

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Another @nejm.org simultaneous publication during #ISNWCN, about xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation of a Porcine Kidney for End-Stage Kidney Disease

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#UTHR United Therapeutics Corporation Announces FDA Clearance of its Investigational New Drug Application for the UKidney Xenotransplantation Clinical Trial

https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UTHR/united-therapeutics-corporation-announces-fda-clearance-of-its-i9jdr5owbet7.html

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

This is interesting

Aerococcus sanquinicola and Aerococcus urinae in the urine metabolizing creatinine resulting in false low readings with implications for UPCR, UACR and 24 hour urine creatinine collections

www.kireports.org/article/S246...