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Wednesday · 13 min
This Week in Nephrology — Sep 23, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning kidney transplantation — from insurance-driven access barriers to intentional immune tolerance — glomerular disease diagnostics and immunosuppression, and a cluster of studies on chronic kidney disease risk, diet, drug safety and functional outcomes. Let's dive in. We start with transplantation, where the most… This week's papers: Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Access to Kidney Transplant After the 21st Century Cures Act. — JAMA 2026 Evaluation of eculizumab for the prevention of delayed graft function after kidney transplantation in adults: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Delayed immune tolerance intentionally achieved years after two-haplotype matched kidney transplantation. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Automated chemiluminescence immunoassay for the detection of anti-nephrin autoantibodies. — Kidney International 2026 Rituximab With or Without Avacopan in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis With Severe Renal Involvement. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Approach to Hematuria: Core Curriculum 2026. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Safety of Sodium/Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and CKD. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Normoproteic Plant-Dominant Protein Diets, Uremic Toxins, and Gut Microbiota in Patients With Advanced CKD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome. — Hypertension 2026 Self-Reported Versus Performance-Based Measures of Physical Function and Mortality Among Patients With Kidney Failure: A Cohort Analysis of the CONVINCE Trial. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
September 16 · 12 min
This Week in Nephrology — Sep 16, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning new guidance and drug strategies in glomerular and anaemia care, the cardio-kidney-metabolic axis with risk prediction, and transplantation plus the biology of repair and cyst growth. Let's dive in. We start with the week's most immediately practice-relevant document. Annals of Internal Medicine carries a syno… This week's papers: Evaluation and Management of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: Synopsis of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes 2026 Clinical Practice Guideline. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 Complement in Kidney Disease: Core Curriculum 2026. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Sparsentan - SGLT2 inhibitor combination therapy in trials of IgA nephropathy. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in CKD: Contemporary Insights into Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Obesity and Cardio-Metabolic Health in Kidney Disease: Implications for Kidney Health, Risk Stratification, and Management. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Mechanisms of regeneration and maladaptive repair in acute kidney injury. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 Temporal Changes in the Recovery and Utilization of Kidneys Donated After Circulatory Death in the United States. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Plasma versus Whole Blood Tacrolimus Concentration and Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation: Post Hoc Analysis of the ALLEGRO Trial. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Predicting High-Risk CKD in Japanese People: Model Development and Validation. — Kidney International Reports 2026 CDK4/6 Inhibitor Abemaciclib Arrests and Reverses Kidney Cyst Progression in Preclinical Models of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
September 9 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — Sep 9, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the frontier of transplantation and organ access, risk prediction and diagnostics across chronic kidney disease, and the practical business of drug therapy and shared decision-making. Let's dive in. We start with the paper that will get the most attention, in The Lancet, where Riella and colleagues report the… This week's papers: Porcine kidney xenotransplantation as a bridge to allotransplantation: a first-in-human study. — The Lancet 2026 Protocol kidney biopsy in the management of proliferative (class III/IV) lupus nephritis: barking up the wrong tree! — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Efficacy and safety of canagliflozin are consistent across polypharmacy burden in CKD: the CREDENCE trial. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Predictive Value of Urine Tubular Biomarkers on Kidney Outcomes: Observations from EMPA-KIDNEY. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Inflammation as a therapeutic target to improve kidney and cardiovascular outcomes. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 CKD risk with tegoprazan versus proton pump inhibitors. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio Reveals Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Risk Reclassification in Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic-Era Community Screening. — Kidney360 2026 A Randomized Pilot Trial of a Nephrologist Communication Tool for Discussing Conservative Management. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Regional Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of Transplant Referral Networks. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Quantum Dot-Based Fluorescent Lateral Flow Immunoassay Strip for Rapid Detection of Anti-nephrin Autoantibodies in Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
September 2 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — Sep 2, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cardiovascular risk in the dialysis population, drug and infection safety across dialysis and hospital care, and a cluster of consensus and implementation documents that tell us where the field's biggest delivery gaps sit. Let's dive in. We'll start with the heart on dialysis, because two papers in the Clinica… This week's papers: Asia-Pacific Summit on Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Diabetes and Blood Pressure Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: A KDIGO Summit Report. — Kidney International 2026 SEISMIC: A multi-stakeholder summit addressing access issues in diagnosis and treatment of C3G nephropathy and IC-MPGN. — Kidney International 2026 An International Expert Consensus Statement and Guidance Document on Implementation of Nutritional Supplementation in Patients on Dialysis. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Heterogeneity of Nephrotoxic Risk Across Medication Classes and Combinations in Hospitalized Adults. — Kidney360 2026 Intradialytic Myocardial Stunning in Hemodialysis Dependent End Stage Kidney Disease. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Systolic Blood Pressure Variability and Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Peritonitis and Mortality Risks of Gastric Acid Suppressants in Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Burden and Risk Factors for Staphylococcus aureus-Related Sepsis among US Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Claims-Based Cohort Study. — Kidney360 2026 Randomized Trial of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation in CKD Pregnancy (ORCHARD-BEET). — Kidney International Reports 2026 Advancing Water and Dialysate Standards for High-Volume Hemodiafiltration in the United States: From Scientific Rationale to Clinical Implementation. — Kidney360 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
August 27 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — Aug 27, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning dialysis decision-making and drug therapy at the extremes of kidney function, biomarkers and biopsy classification that sharpen how we phenotype glomerular disease, and risk stratification and preventive care in transplant candidates. Let's dive in. Let's start with decisions at the dialysis interface, where t… This week's papers: Outcomes from the International Society of Nephrology Forum on Complement Therapeutics in C3G & IgAN. — Kidney International 2026 Diagnosis and management of acute hyperkalaemia. — BMJ 2026 Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use and Risks of Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Dialysis Discontinuation Rates at Low Levels of Kidney Function in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury on Intermittent Hemodialysis. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Improving the Histologic Classification of Advanced Diabetic Nephropathy Based on the Transformative Research in Diabetic Nephropathy (TRIDENT) Findings. — Kidney International 2026 Evaluating Patterns and Outcomes in the Prescription of Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis in Support of Shared Decision-Making. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Vaccination and Safe Living Strategies for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Serum levels of guanidinylated YB-1 indicate active lupus nephritis. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Performance-Based Frailty Tools Capture Distinct Risk Phenotypes in Kidney Transplant Candidates: A Comparative Analysis of FRAIL and SPPB. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Plasma Levels of Growth Differentiation Factor 15 and Adverse Kidney Outcomes: Proteomics-Based Mediation Analysis and Mendelian Randomization. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
August 20 · 10 min
This Week in Nephrology — Aug 20, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering ten notable papers spanning how we measure and treat chronic kidney disease, the paraprotein and immune interface with kidney disease, and transplantation and dialysis care delivery. Let's dive in. We start with how we treat and how we measure progressive kidney disease. In Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Lovshin reviews combinatio… This week's papers: Combination Pharmacotherapy in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Translating Evidence into Clinical Practice — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Reframing kidney outcomes in CKD trials: eGFR slopes, competing risks, and pragmatic trial design — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Trends in mortality in adult first kidney transplant recipients with and without diabetes as cause of kidney failure: an ERA Registry study — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Pathogenesis and Translational Perspectives in Myeloma-Associated Nephropathy — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Monoclonal gammopathy in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis: prevalence, characteristics and outcomes — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Scaling up Genomics: A Mainstream Model of Care in Nephrology — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Peritoneal Dialysis in the Transplant Pathway: From Waitlist to Graft Failure — Kidney360 2026 Genetic determinants of serum creatinine and cystatin C independent of kidney function generate bias in filtration markers — Kidney International 2026 Donor Kidney Assessment-Functional Metrics and Biomarkers During Ex Situ Machine Perfusion — Transplantation 2026 A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Digital Health Intervention on Phosphate Control in Patients on Dialysis — Kidney360 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
August 13 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — Aug 13, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning transplantation — from immunosuppression formulations to donor safety and paired exchange innovation — the limits and refinements of drug therapy in chronic kidney disease, and the management of cardiac and skeletal comorbidity alongside care transitions after acute kidney injury. Let's dive in. We'll start wi… This week's papers: A Comparative Study of Once-Daily versus Twice-Daily Tacrolimus in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients: A National Cohort Analysis. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition in Dialysis-Dependent Patients with Chronic Heart Failure due to Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Comparative Effectiveness and Cardiovascular Safety of Romosozumab versus Teriparatide in Osteoporosis Patients with CKD: Target Trial Emulation Study. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Individualizing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapy for CKD associated with diabetes. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 The Impact of Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System Inhibitors in IgA Nephropathy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Anti-CD38/Anti-CD20 Rescue Therapy for Posttransplant Recurrent FSGS. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Long Term Outcomes in Living Kidney Donors Over 30 Years. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Key Elements of Clinical Communication After Inpatient Acute Kidney Injury: Modified Delphi Study From the AKINow Recovery Workgroup. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Integrating Deceased and Living Donation: Six-Year Outcomes of the Italian Deceased-Donor-Initiated Kidney Paired Exchange (DEC-K) Program. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Renal Outcomes of Triglyceride-Targeting Lipid-Lowering Therapies versus Statins in Patients with CKD. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
August 5 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — Aug 5, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning acute kidney injury consensus work and onco-nephrology, dialysis modality decisions and patient-reported symptoms, and prevention and precision medicine across glomerular disease, pregnancy and transplantation. Let's dive in. We start with two consensus statements from the Acute Disease Quality Initiative, bot… This week's papers: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Acute Kidney Injury: A Report from the 34th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Consensus Conference — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Accelerating Evidence-Based Practices in Acute Kidney Injury: A Consensus Statement from the XXXV ADQI Conference — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Peritoneal Dialysis Modality and Outcomes in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study — Kidney International Reports 2026 Hypertension Management in Pregnancy and Postpartum — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Glucocorticoid-Modulated Molecular Signatures and Prediction of Treatment Efficacy in IgA Nephropathy — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Beyond Trough Levels: Tacrolimus Dose Requirements and Individualized Monitoring in Kidney Transplantation — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 Skeletal Muscle Cramp Prevalence among Patients Receiving Dialysis: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significance: a guide for nephrologists — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Primary Prevention of CKD for Heart and Kidney Health: Ready for Primetime? — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
July 31 · 10 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jul 31, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning the management of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, evolving strategies and long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation, and innovative approaches to peritoneal dialysis and polycystic kidney disease. Let us dive in. We begin with the expanding clinical footprint of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic h… This week's papers: Dapagliflozin and Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial — JAMA 2026 T-Cell Engager-Mediated HLA Antibody Depletion before Kidney Transplantation — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026 Validation of the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTs (PREVENT) Equations in a CKD Population: A Nationwide Veterans Analysis — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 ISN International Expert Forum: Exploring the Nexus of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Health — Kidney International 2026 Evidence-Based Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Therapies in Kidney Transplant Recipients — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Perceptions and Patterns Associated with Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis Use: Surveying Physicians and Nurses across Australia, Canada and Thailand — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Clinicopathological and Molecular Characteristics of Plasma Cell-Rich Rejection in Renal Transplant Biopsies — Transplantation 2026 Renal Cyst Sclerotherapy in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: Long-Term Follow-Up and Evaluation in a Porcine Bladder Model — Kidney360 2026 Bone Mineral Density Loss After Kidney Transplantation: Metabolic Determinants, Diagnostic Approaches, and Preventive Strategies — Kidney International Reports 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
July 22 · 8 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jul 22, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning transplant immunology and genetics, glomerular disease mechanisms, dialysis management, and clinical practice guides. Let's dive in. We begin with transplant medicine and genetics, where several studies address significant barriers to transplantation. In the American Journal of Transplantation, Safa and colleag… This week's papers: BCMA-Targeted Therapy Enables Combined Haploidentical Stem Cell and Kidney Transplantation in a Highly Sensitized Patient — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 VEGFR1-Blocking Antibody Improves Endothelial Structure, Kidney Function, and GFR in Diabetic Mice — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 Time-Updated Hematuria and Kidney Disease Progression in IgAN — Kidney International Reports 2026 Genetic Evaluation Practices in Living Kidney Donor Candidates — Kidney International Reports 2026 Intradialytic Kinetics of Cardiac Biomarkers During High-Flux Hemodialysis and Post-Dilution Hemodiafiltration: A Randomized Crossover Trial — Kidney360 2026 The Nephrologist's Guide to Lower Urinary Tract Conditions: A Urology-Based Review — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Perceptions of Hispanic Patients with Advanced CKD About Communication and Engagement Regarding Kidney Transplantation: A Qualitative Study — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Topical Timolol for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Exit-Site Granulomas: First Report of Successful Use in CAPD Patients — Seminars in Dialysis 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
July 15 · 14 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jul 15, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we are covering eight notable papers spanning three broad themes: advancements in glomerular disease management and symptom characterization, digital health innovations that reshape home dialysis and transplant education, and clinical tools for risk prediction in pregnancy and hypertension. Let us dive in. We begin with glomerular diseases, where a pa… This week's papers: Remote Patient Monitoring Automated Peritoneal Dialysis and Clinical Outcomes: A Nationwide Real-World Cohort Study from Taiwan — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 PREDICT Tool for Pregnancy-Associated CKD Progression — Kidney International Reports 2026 Anti-CD20 Therapies and Antinephrin Autoantibodies in IgA Nephropathy With Minimal Change Disease — Kidney International Reports 2026 Kidney Survival in Children With Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome Treated by Rituximab — Kidney International Reports 2026 An Interactive Virtual Nephrologist to Engage Patients With Advanced CKD About Transplantation — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 Characterization of Patient-Reported Loin Pain in IgAN — Kidney International Reports 2026 Viewpoint on donor-derived cell-free DNA: context of use and clinical utility are key — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 The kidney distal tubule potassium switch, modern diet and hypertension — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
July 8 · 16 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jul 8, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning advancements in glomerular disease biomarkers and therapies, practical dietary and metabolic management in chronic kidney disease, and critical clinical updates in acute kidney injury and diabetic nephrology. Let us dive in. We begin with a major focus on glomerular diseases, where the landscape of both ultr… This week's papers: Pivotal Clinical Trials in C3 Glomerulopathy: answers and remaining uncertainties. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Randomized Crossover Trial of Low Sodium Dialysate on Tissue Sodium Accumulation in Hemodialysis. — Kidney international reports 2026 Effect of Semaglutide on Measured vs Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Circulating Antinephrin Antibodies in Adult Chinese Patients With IgAN and Nephrotic-Range Proteinuria. — Kidney international reports 2026 Ultrasensitive Immunoassay Using a Novel Galactose-Deficient IgA1 Antibody and Its Clinical Application in the Diagnosis of IgAN. — Kidney international reports 2026 Severe Pregnancy-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Maternal Vulnerability. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Approach to Hyperkalemia: The Role of Diet and Pharmacological Therapies. — American journal of kidney diseases 2026 High Protein Diets: What to Tell Our Patients. — American journal of kidney diseases 2026 Impact of immunosuppressive therapy on renal and patient survival in rapidly progressive secondary IgA nephropathy. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Evidence-Based Medicine versus Personalized Medicine when attempting to block complement in IgA nephropathy. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
July 1 · 10 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jul 1, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we are covering seven notable papers spanning advancements in kidney transplantation, novel insights into risk prediction and genetics in chronic kidney disease, and the evolving paradigms of patient-centered care models. Let us dive in. We begin in the realm of kidney transplantation, where matching protocols and immunologic risk stratification conti… This week's papers: Urinary protein vs albumin for assessing kidney failure risk in chronic kidney disease. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation 2026 Preformed Anti-DQ Alpha Donor-specific Antibodies and the Risk of Antibody-mediated Rejection After Kidney Transplantation. — Transplantation 2026 Desensitization With Tocilizumab and IVIg: A Prospective Controlled Cohort Study in a Predominantly Black American Population. — Transplantation 2026 Nephrology in the Paradigm of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: Report of an ASN Initiative on Saving Kidneys, Hearts, and Lives. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Palliative Dialysis: Putting the Person First in Dialysis Care. — American journal of kidney diseases 2026 Genetic Risk Factors for Kidney Function in Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Metrics That Matter: Evaluating the Correlates of Pretransplant Performance in US Kidney Transplant Programs. — Kidney international reports 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
June 27 · 8 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jun 27, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering ten notable papers spanning advanced management strategies for chronic kidney disease, new insights into genetic and glomerular diseases, and the growing complexity of cardiovascular comorbidities and medication burdens. Let's dive in. We begin with a major focus on optimization strategies in chronic kidney disease management. In the Cl… This week's papers: Primary aldosteronism. — Nature reviews. Disease primers 2026 Metabolic Acidosis and Progression of CKD: Current Guidelines and Considerations. — American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2026 Bortezomib-Cyclophosphamide-Dexamethasone versus Rituximab in PGNMID. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Long-term kidney protection in IgA nephropathy with atrasentan. — Nature reviews. Nephrology 2026 Benefits of finerenone treatment across chronic kidney disease aetiologies. — Nature reviews. Nephrology 2026 Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention and Management in Chronic Kidney Disease. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 A Framework for Risk-Based Implementation of Combination Therapy in CKD: Who, Why, When, and How? — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Whole genome sequencing for CKD of unexplained cause in Hong Kong. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Medication Burden and Regimen Complexity Among Dialysis Patients from 2003 to 2024. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 APOL1 and Black Kidney Donors-Reducing Risk or Opportunity? — JAMA internal medicine 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
June 14 · 10 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jun 14, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 7 notable papers spanning advances in kidney transplantation and new perspectives on chronic kidney disease, from risk factors to new therapeutics and diagnostics. Let's dive in. We begin this week in the field of transplantation, where three new papers offer insights into monitoring for rejection and understanding the long-term consequ… This week's papers: Genetic Screening of Patients With Inherited Fanconi Syndrome. — Kidney international reports 2026 Limitations of Serum Bicarbonate as a Criterion for Metabolic Acidosis in CKD: Implications for Clinical Trials. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential and Kidney Failure in Chronic Kidney Disease: An East Asian Cohort Study. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Humoral Response to COVID-19 Vaccines and Infection During Sibeprenlimab Treatment of IgA Nephropathy: Data from the ENVISION Trial. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Improving diagnostic performance of kidney allograft rejection with a model combining relative fraction and absolute copies of donor-derived cell-free DNA - results from five independent cohorts. — American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2026 Cyclosporin a- versus tacrolimus-specific lesions in calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Discovery of Endothelial Cell Antibodies Associated with Pediatric and Adult Kidney Allograft Rejection and Assessment of a non-HLA Antibody Assay. — American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2026 Evaluation of the Association between Age, Sex and d-Amino Acid-Based Estimation of Glomerular Filtration Rate. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Treatment potential of oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonists. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
June 6 · 10 min
This Week in Nephrology — Jun 6, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers, with a major focus on the expanding evidence for finerenone in chronic kidney disease, new data in glomerular disease, and important updates on risk management in advanced CKD. Let's dive in. This week saw a trio of major publications solidifying the role of the non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, fin… This week's papers: Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Life Cycle of Guideline Development: Part 1: Introduction to a new series. — Kidney international 2026 Efficacy and safety of finerenone in patients with chronic kidney disease: an individual participant data pooled analysis (INFINITY). — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Lithium-Associated Nephrotoxicity. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 Finerenone in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Due to Glomerular Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 Atrasentan in patients with IgA nephropathy (ALIGN): final 2.5-year results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Low-Dose Rivaroxaban and Cardiovascular Events in Advanced Kidney Disease: The TRACK Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 Measured and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rates and Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes. — JAMA 2026 Chronic kidney disease, complex conditions, and advancing therapeutics: new hope and challenges. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Advances in the diagnosis and detection of chronic kidney disease. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
May 28 · 12 min
This Week in Nephrology — May 28, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning CKD risk and progression, new mechanisms in kidney injury, and strategies to optimize organ transplantation. Let's dive in. Our first theme is a deep dive into chronic kidney disease, looking at a new conceptual framework, a better risk prediction tool, and a commonly overlooked medication risk. A commentary… This week's papers: Universal transcriptomic hallmarks of mammalian ageing and mortality. — Nature 2026 Role of Lipid Signaling by PTAFR in Tubular Epithelial Cells in AKI-to-CKD Transition. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Efficacy and safety of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator inhibitor GLPG2737 for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: phase 2a MANGROVE study. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 The Kidney in the Middle: KDIGO Guidelines Address Multiple Key Components of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome. — Kidney international 2026 Canagliflozin Alleviates Experimental Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis through Suppression of Pathogenic T-Cell Responses. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTs (PREVENT) Equation for Adverse Cardio-Kidney Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease Population. — Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2026 Anticholinergic Burden and Progression to Kidney Replacement Therapy. — Kidney international reports 2026 A Comprehensive Review of Strategies to Advance Kidney Exchange Programs and Optimize Effectiveness and Outcomes. — Kidney international reports 2026 Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury: Diagnosis, Recognition and Prevention. — Kidney international 2026 Contribution of Donor Hospital Characteristics to Deceased Donor Organ Recovery Rates. — American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
May 21 · 13 min
This Week in Nephrology — May 21, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning new therapeutic approaches in complex kidney diseases, innovations in diagnostics, and key considerations for transplantation in older adults. Let's dive in. Advances in Therapeutics for Complex Kidney Disease This week brings several important updates on managing complex kidney conditions, from amyloidosis a… This week's papers: Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation Versus Continued Dialysis Among Patients Aged 75 Years or Older: A Target Trial Emulation. — American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2026 Gene-disease relationships for glomerular phenotypes: expert recommendations from ClinGen. — Nature reviews. Nephrology 2026 CRT-Estimands Framework: consensus based extension of the ICH E9(R1) addendum for cluster randomised trials. — BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2026 Urinary fluorogenic reporters for noninvasive detection and staging of kidney fibrosis. — Science translational medicine 2026 Nondialyzable versus Dialyzable Beta-Blockers in Hemodialysis: A Target Trial Emulation Study. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Daratumumab Monotherapy versus Bortezomib-Based Regimens in frail patients with Biopsy-Proven Renal AL Amyloidosis. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 DUAL GIP/GLP-1Ra reduces residual proteinuria in non-diabetic fabry disease. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Implementing the commitments of the World Health Assembly kidney health resolution: a key opportunity to improve health for millions. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Loss of Cyclin G-Associated Kinase (Gak) Leads to Lysosome Dysfunction and Immune Modulation in Podocytes. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Kidney biopsy during pregnancy: indications, complications, results and therapeutic impact. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Listen at AudioScholar
May 14 · 11 min
This Week in Nephrology — May 14, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning new insights into disease pathophysiology, advances in diagnostics, and modernizing our therapeutic approaches. Let's dive in. First, we'll look at a few papers that challenge our understanding of how kidney diseases develop and progress at a fundamental level, from the genetics of APOL1 to the mechanisms of GL… This week's papers: Weight Loss-Independent Mechanisms of Kidney Protection with Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Implications for Clinical Practice. — American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2026 Clinical Relevance of Donor-Derived cfDNA In Monitoring Kidney Transplant Rejection. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Lineage and organ signals sequentially build organ intrinsic nervous systems. — Nature 2026 Risk of Serious Adverse Events and Death With Low-Dose Methotrexate Versus Hydroxychloroquine in Adults Receiving Dialysis. — Seminars in dialysis 2026 Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: biological insights and biomarker-guided disease management. — Nature reviews. Nephrology 2026 Tubulointerstitial diseases: an updated framework for diverse and emerging entities. — Kidney international 2026 Purine Metabolism Regulates the Severity of APOL1 Nephropathy. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2026 Comparative Analysis of Lupus Nephritis Guidelines: ACR 2025, EULAR 2025, and Kdigo 2024. — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2026 Listen at AudioScholar

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