Nephrology
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No COVID vax, no transplant: Unfair or good medicine?
Is removing them from the list unfair and cruel, or simply business as usual?
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Allopurinol found safe in patients with concomitant gout, CKD
Despite earlier concerns, a study has found no sign of increased mortality with allopurinol therapy in patients with gout and chronic kidney...
Conference Coverage
Oral daprodustat safely improves anemia in chronic kidney disease
“What’s out there [for daprodustat] seems very encouraging,” according to a nephrologist.
Conference Coverage
Finerenone, sotagliflozin exert heart failure benefits despite renal dysfunction
Secondary trial analyses in patients with type 2 diabetes showed both finerenone and sotagliflozin had heart failure benefits across the spectrum...
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SGLT2 inhibitors for diabetes: No link to fractures in older adults
Analysis of Medicare data supports findings from younger adults that use of the drug class does not appear to raise fracture risk.
Conference Coverage
What are the cardiorenal differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
Heart failure may be as much, if not more of, a problem in people with type 1 diabetes as type 2 diabetes, researchers suggested.
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When should patients with kidney disease receive nephrology referral?
Combining predicted kidney failure risk with lab values will lead to better patient outcomes, according to the author of a new paper.
FDA/CDC
FDA okays difelikefalin for dialysis-associated pruritus in patients with CKD
Pruritus in patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis is common and has had no widely accepted go-to treatment.
Outcomes Research in Review
Nivolumab Plus Cabozantinib Improves Outcomes Compared With Sunitinib for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
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PCPs lag on albuminuria tests in patients with type 2 diabetes