{"title":"Sodium Bicarbonate Treatment and Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease with Metabolic Acidosis: A Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Ting-Ya Yang, Hong-Min Lin, Hsien-Yi Wang, Min-Hsiang Chuang, Chia-Chen Hsieh, Kang-Ting Tsai, Jui-Yi Chen","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000487","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel P Gale, Oliver Gross, Fang Wang, Rafael José Esteban de la Rosa, Matthew Hall, John A Sayer, Gerald Appel, Ali Hariri, Shiguang Liu, Manish Maski, Yuqian Shen, Qi Zhang, Sajida Iqbal, Madhurima Uppara Kowthalam, Julie Lin, Jie Ding
{"title":"A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Testing Effects of Lademirsen on Kidney Function Decline in Adults with Alport Syndrome.","authors":"Daniel P Gale, Oliver Gross, Fang Wang, Rafael José Esteban de la Rosa, Matthew Hall, John A Sayer, Gerald Appel, Ali Hariri, Shiguang Liu, Manish Maski, Yuqian Shen, Qi Zhang, Sajida Iqbal, Madhurima Uppara Kowthalam, Julie Lin, Jie Ding","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000458","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141238747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vascular Access Considerations in Home Hemodialysis.","authors":"Ryan J Chan, Christopher T Chan","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000499","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a global interest in expanding home dialysis utilization among patients with ESKD. Home hemodialysis (HHD) is an appealing KRT option for this population because of its multiple clinical and quality of life benefits. Central to successful HHD is the establishment and maintenance of a functioning vascular access that serves as a patient's lifeline while on therapy. While the selection of a vascular access type is influenced by individual patient circumstances, the arteriovenous fistula is generally the preferred access method. Training patients to use their dialysis access requires attention to safety, risk management, and monitoring for complications to minimize adverse events and technique failure. Policies incorporating systematic frameworks for quality improvement and assurance, in conjunction with the measurement of metrics relating to vascular access, are tools that should be used by HHD programs to enhance the value of care delivered. In this perspective, we aim to describe what is currently known about the various vascular access options in HHD and to elucidate what needs to be taken into consideration in the selection and care of this access.</p>","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141077252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Examining Acute Peritoneal Dialysis: Back to the Future!","authors":"Pei Shan Lee, Brett Cullis, Christopher T Chan","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000513","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321735/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons Learned from HERA: the First Alport Syndrome Therapeutic Clinical Trial.","authors":"B André Weinstock","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000506","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321724/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin Stritt, Daniel G Fuster, Nasser A Dhayat, Olivier Bonny, Nicolas Faller, Andreas Christe, Anas Taha, Vincent Ochs, Niklas Ortlieb, Beat Roth
{"title":"Risk Factors of Asymptomatic Kidney Stone Passage in Adults with Recurrent Kidney Stones.","authors":"Kevin Stritt, Daniel G Fuster, Nasser A Dhayat, Olivier Bonny, Nicolas Faller, Andreas Christe, Anas Taha, Vincent Ochs, Niklas Ortlieb, Beat Roth","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000496","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390022/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141728219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susan P Y Wong, Julie Chotivatanapong, Deborah Lee, Daniel Y Lam, Marieke S van Eijk
{"title":"Providers' experiences discussing care for patients with kidney failure who forgo kidney replacement therapy: A national qualitative study.","authors":"Susan P Y Wong, Julie Chotivatanapong, Deborah Lee, Daniel Y Lam, Marieke S van Eijk","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000522","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many nephrology providers express difficulty in discussing care options for patients who forgo kidney replacement therapy (KRT), which hampers their ability to help patients make decisions about their current and future treatment of kidney disease.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a qualitative study using interviews with a national sample of nephrology providers (i.e., physicians and advanced practice providers) who participated in US professional societies between July and December 2022. We performed a thematic analysis of interviews to identify emergent themes reflecting providers' experiences discussing care for patients who forgo KRT.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were 21 providers (age 54±13years, female 81%, White 32%) who participated in interviews, of which 43% were physicians and most (57%) practiced in academic settings. Three dominant themes emerged from interviews: 1) Inconsistent terminology: while providers sought to use terms to describe care for patients who forgo KRT that affirmed patients' decision, clearly conveyed that KRT would not be pursued, and were familiar to patients and other providers, they disagreed about which terms satisfied these priorities; 2) Blurred distinctions between KRT and its alternative: providers' descriptions of their care practices suggested that differences in their approaches to caring for patients who forgo KRT and those who are planning to pursue KRT could be opaque; and, 3) Deciphering patients' decision to forgo KRT: providers did not readily accept patients' expressed preferences to forgo KRT at face value and described using a variety of methods to assess whether patients would follow through with their decision.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Providers used different, inconsistent terms to describe care for patients who forgo KRT. They disagreed about what this care entailed and were uncertain about what patients might mean when they express not wanting to undergo KRT.</p>","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11469789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeanne Dandonneau, Arnaud François, Dominique Bertrand, Sophie Candon, Tristan de Nattes
{"title":"Systematic Biopsy-Based Transcriptomics and Diagnosis of Antibody-Mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection in Clinical Practice.","authors":"Jeanne Dandonneau, Arnaud François, Dominique Bertrand, Sophie Candon, Tristan de Nattes","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000490","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000490","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390017/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allan Y Gao, Christopher D Knapp, Jiannong Liu, Kirsten L Johansen
{"title":"Comparing Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries with ESKD who Switched to Medicare Advantage versus Remained in Traditional Medicare.","authors":"Allan Y Gao, Christopher D Knapp, Jiannong Liu, Kirsten L Johansen","doi":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000512","DOIUrl":"10.2215/CJN.0000000000000512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Patients choosing Medicare Advantage vs. Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) differ with respect to race, socioeconomic status, and burden of disease. However, it is unclear whether these differences also occur among patients with kidney failure, who were newly allowed to switch to Medicare Advantage after the 21st Century Cares Act. We used data from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) to examine differences in characteristics of dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients who switched from FFS to Medicare Advantage compared with those who stayed with FFS in 2021, the first year such switching was allowed. We used unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression to compare odds of switching among demographic and geographic subgroups. Among 411,513 patients with FFS coverage in 2020, 10.1% switched to Medicare Advantage in 2021. Switchers constituted 12% of the dialysis population and 5% of the kidney transplant population. In the dialysis population, patients of Black race and Hispanic ethnicity were more likely to switch than patients of White race (adjusted OR 1.69, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.64, 1.73 and OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.40, 1.47, respectively), as were patients with dual eligibility for Medicaid (adjusted OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.09, 1.15). Patients living in the South were also more likely to switch to Medicare Advantage than those living in the West (adjusted OR 1.48, 95% CI 1.43, 1.52). Similar differences were observed among kidney transplant recipients. Patients who switched from FFS to Medicare Advantage were disproportionately from historically marginalized groups, including Black, Hispanic, and low income individuals. They were also more likely to live in the South. These differences may threaten the generalizability of USRDS data that relies on FFS insurance claims and suggest that comparisons of outcomes between FFS and MA beneficiaries with kidney failure should be adjusted for key patient characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":50681,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}