Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000938
Ammar Almehmi
{"title":"Desmopressin Use before Kidney Biopsy: The Controversy Continues.","authors":"Ammar Almehmi","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000938","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1259-1261"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407139/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000941
Vineeta V Batra, Aarti Verma, Aakash Batra, Niharika Jain, Mukta Mantan, Abhijeet Saha
{"title":"Value of \"Active\" Urine Sediment Examination in Predicting Proliferative Glomerular Pathology on Kidney Biopsy.","authors":"Vineeta V Batra, Aarti Verma, Aakash Batra, Niharika Jain, Mukta Mantan, Abhijeet Saha","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34067/KID.0000000941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Urine sediment examination is an important preliminary investigation for the nephrologist and helps him decide whether the patient has a proliferative or non-proliferative glomerular pathology. Recently, there is an increasing trend of using easier, non-specific dipstick method for urine examination leading to a decline in the importance of urine sediment examination. Here, we attempt to define guidelines for bio-chemical and microscopic parameters in order to develop a uniform and clinically relevant reporting system for urine sediment examination.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Urine samples were reported as inactive or active sediment. A tiered system of reporting urine sediments was developed including inactive sediment, Inactive sediment with moderate/significant proteinuria, glomerular hematuria, and active sediment, active sediment with significant proteinuria / features of proliferative activity. The urine sediment was compared to kidney biopsies of these patients which were grouped into non proliferative and proliferative glomerulopathy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>795 paired samples of urine sediment and kidney biopsies were examined and compared. Patients of non-proliferative glomerulopathy (Minimal change disease, Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, amyloid and membranous nephropathy) showed features of Inactive sediment. Patients with proliferative glomerulopathy (focal proliferative glomerulonephritis [GN], Diffuse proliferative GN, Membranoproliferative GN, Mesangio-proliferative GN and crescentic GN) predominantly showed active sediment, with increase in percentage of dysmorphic red blood cells and formed elements. The sensitivity of this urine reporting system was 82.0%, specificity 74.4% with p value <0.001.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This system of reporting urine sediment is a sensitive and efficient method of predicting the severity of underlying kidney disease and need for performing renal biopsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000810
Daniel P Murphy
{"title":"To Hold or Not to Hold, that is the Newest Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor Question.","authors":"Daniel P Murphy","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000810","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1254-1255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407133/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000772
Palavi Vaidya, Matthew A Sparks
{"title":"Asymptomatic Patient with ESKD Presenting with a Purple Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter.","authors":"Palavi Vaidya, Matthew A Sparks","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000772","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1422-1423"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000814
Andrea Angeletti, Paolo Cravedi
{"title":"Complement and IgM in FSGS: Minor Characters or Leading Actors?","authors":"Andrea Angeletti, Paolo Cravedi","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000814","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1265-1267"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000818
Ester S Oh, Kristen L Nowak
{"title":"The Dietary Inflammatory Index: A New Predictor of CKD Progression?","authors":"Ester S Oh, Kristen L Nowak","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000818","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1256-1258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407125/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kidney360Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000917
Carla Pou Casellas, Maarten B Rookmaaker
{"title":"Complete Replication or Targeted Mimicry: Evaluating Cell Identity in Advanced In Vitro Kidney Models.","authors":"Carla Pou Casellas, Maarten B Rookmaaker","doi":"10.34067/KID.0000000917","DOIUrl":"10.34067/KID.0000000917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17882,"journal":{"name":"Kidney360","volume":"6 8","pages":"1268-1269"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12407140/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}