JASN Podcast

Transplant candidates with top 20% Estimated Post-Transplant Survival (EPTS) scores are prioritized to receive optimal deceased-donor kidneys. A study found fewer than half of eligible ESKD patients w/ top 20% EPTS scores were on transplant waiting list.

A few articles in each issue are chosen by the EIC for their interest. The issue highlights include: laminin-521 –a novel GBM autoantigen, iron biomarkers & mortality in nondialysis kidney disease, & disparities among hemodialysis patients with COVID-19.

A conversation with EIC, Josie Briggs and leading nephrology clinical trialist, Vlado Perkovic - on the next generation of clinical trials in nephrology.

Each issue of JASN contains Highlights, short summaries of a few of the articles in the issue, chosen by the EIC as of special interest to our readers.

Each issue of JASN contains Highlights, short summaries of a few of the articles in the issue, chosen by the EIC as of special interest to our readers.

In this podcast JASN EIC, Josie Briggs talks with transplant expert and JASN Associate Editor, Matt Griffin about two studies that examine the immune responses to COVID-19 in transplant patients.

Josie Briggs talks with Nicholas Steers about his work using inbred mice strains to understand the genetic factors that result in collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in HIV nephropathy, insights also relevant to a rare complication of COVID-19.

In this episode, Dr. Josie Briggs and Dr. Brendon Neuen discuss the GFR paradox: SGLT inhibitors and other kidney-protective drugs initially cause a drop in GFR.

Kidney patients are at high risk for cardiovascular disease. In this Podcast, Dr. Briggs talks and Dr. David Charytan discuss recent work to improve the prediction of CVD in kidney patients. New work from CRIC aims to update the Framingham equation.

In this Podcast, JASN EIC, Josie Briggs, discusses a clinical trial from the April issue on roxadustat in dialysis patients with Magdalene Assimon. Dr. Assimon explains the interpretation of the finding that roxadustat is non-inferior to epoetin alpha.

In the May 2022 JASN highlights, Dr. Briggs summarizes two important studies on the role of inflammation as a driving factor in the progression of CKD.

In this podcast Dr. Briggs talks with Dr. Kate Butler about advance care planning for patients with chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Briggs summarizes findings in a study published in the June issue of JASN. The study examines the impact of continued immunosuppression in patients with failed allografts; the effects are surprising and suggest current guidelines may not be optimum.

In this podcast, Dr. Briggs and JASN Deputy Editor, Dr. Donald Wesson discuss the special series highlighted in the July Issue. The series focuses on kidney health disparities with an emphasis on strategies for their elimination.

Two highlighted clinical studies: the first addresses the effect of combining a SGLT2 inhibitor and a MRA on proteinuria; the second considers vascular reactivity as a risk factor for cerebral hypoxia when blood pressure falls during dialysis treatments.

In this episode we cover two papers that examine the impact of climate change on nephrology practice. Specifically, the effect of extreme weather events on hemodialysis patient mortality and greenhouse gas emissions associated with dialysis treatment.

In this podcast, JASN EIC, Josie Briggs talks with Juan-Jesus Carrero, Professor of Kidney Disease Epidemiology at Karolinska Institute. His study, published in the October issue of JASN, documents striking differences in care of men and women with CKD.

In this podcast, EIC Josie Briggs talks with Lekha Tummalapalli about a study addressing costs of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. An editorial on this issue is published in the November (33.11) issue of JASN.