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Nephrology — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed nephrology literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 6d ago

    This Week in Nephrology — Oct 21, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Intermittent or Continuous Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury (New England Journal of Medicine, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning acute kidney injury in the critically ill, kidney transplantation, and cardiometabolic and glomerular strategies in chronic kidney disease. Let's dive in. This week's papers: 1. Intermittent or Continuous Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 2. Intraoperative Dobutamine Plus Norepinephrine to Prevent Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Septic Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 3. Randomized Clinical Trial of Ringer's Lactate Versus Chloride-Reduced Saline-Dextrose in Postoperative Kidney Transplantation. — Kidney International Reports 2026 4. Claims-Based Phenotyping of Acute Kidney Transplant Rejection in a National Medicare Cohort. — Kidney International Reports 2026 5. Microvascular inflammation in kidney transplants: finally an effective treatment? — Kidney International 2026 6. Safety outcomes of semaglutide by chronic kidney disease severity in the FLOW trial. — Kidney International 2026 7. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Multi-hormone Receptor Modulators for Kidney Protection in Nondiabetic Kidney Disease. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 8. Aldosterone and Residual Cardiorenal Risk: Pathophysiology and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 9. A study using the REIN registry suggests a statin therapy benefits for secondary prevention in patients receiving dialysis. — Kidney International 2026 10. Microangiopathic lesions associated with poor immunosuppressive therapy response in IgA nephropathy. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/sh4edd2nyb

  2. Oct 14

    This Week in Nephrology — Oct 14, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Association between multimorbidity and discordance between creatinine- and cystatin C-based eGFR (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cardiorenal risk and how we measure and stratify it, the realities of choosing peritoneal dialysis, and evolving treatment of immune-mediated and cystic kidney di… This week's papers: 1. A Microsimulation of Eligibility for Cardiorenal Combination Treatment and Potential Deaths Averted. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 2. Validation of the Klinrisk CKD Progression Model in the Dapagliflozin and Prevention of Adverse Outcomes in CKD (DAPA-CKD) Population. — Kidney360 2026 3. Association between multimorbidity and discordance between creatinine- and cystatin C-based eGFR. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 4. Debating targets for systolic blood pressure lowering in CKD. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 5. Contemporary Approaches to Kidney Dysfunction and Diuretic Resistance in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 6. Barriers to and Facilitators of the Adoption of Peritoneal Dialysis: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 7. Urgent Start of Peritoneal Dialysis Versus Hemodialysis in Kidney Failure in Severe Metabolic Acidosis: A Prospective Study. — Kidney360 2026 8. Targeting the B-Cell Activating Factor and a Proliferation-Inducing Ligand Pathway in IgAN: From Disease Pathogenesis to Clinical Trial Evidence. — Kidney International Reports 2026 9. IgG4-related kidney disease: treatment standard. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 10. Kidney Transcatheter Arterial Embolization Reduces Kidney Cyst Infection in Patients With ADPKD. — Kidney International Reports 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/vs2jh49bhk

  3. Oct 7

    This Week in Nephrology — Oct 7, 2026

    Editor's Pick: An individual patient meta-analysis assessed the associations between change in albuminuria and acute changes in the glomerular filtration rate in randomized controlled trials of chronic kidney disease progression (Kidney International, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning diabetic kidney disease and what our markers really tell us, cardiovascular risk in dialysis, and prognosis in glomerular disease, with two practical reviews on r… This week's papers: 1. Effects of semaglutide on kidney disease in type 2 diabetes: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 2. Superimposed FSGS Lesions Worsen Kidney Prognosis in Diabetic Nephropathy. — Kidney360 2026 3. An individual patient meta-analysis assessed the associations between change in albuminuria and acute changes in the glomerular filtration rate in randomized c… — Kidney International 2026 4. Comparative Cardiovascular Outcomes of Lanthanum Carbonate and Sevelamer in Dialysis. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. Beyond Kt/V: Redefining Dialysis Adequacy as Targeted Cardiovascular Risk Reduction. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 6. Heart failure in chronic kidney disease: what the second universal definition changes. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 7. Systematic Review of Persistent Microscopic Hematuria and Kidney Outcomes in IgAN. — Kidney International Reports 2026 8. Clinical and Pathologic Characteristics of Patients With ANCA-Associated Vasculitis With Renal Arteritis. — Kidney International Reports 2026 9. Resistant Hypertension: State of the Art Review. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 10. Delisting Strategies in Highly Sensitised Kidney Transplant Candidates. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/4h8hg2mdhm

  4. Sep 30

    This Week in Nephrology — Sep 30, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Comparative Renal Effectiveness of GLP-1RA and SGLT2i in US Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes and CKD (Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning frailty and physical function in kidney disease, cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic pharmacotherapy, immune-mediated glomerular disease, and a pair of studies on tra… This week's papers: 1. Recommendations for the management of frailty in chronic kidney disease: a consensus report. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 2. Physical Performance and Risk of Heart Failure, Kidney Failure, and Mortality in CKD: Findings from the CRIC Study. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 3. Efficacy and Safety of Incremental Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Seminars in Dialysis 2026 4. Comparative Renal Effectiveness of GLP-1RA and SGLT2i in US Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes and CKD. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. Targeting the aldosterone-mineralocorticoid receptor pathway in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 6. Prospective 96-week study to evaluate efficacy and safety of tacrolimus and glucocorticoid against mycophenolate and glucocorticoid as continuous induction-mai… — Kidney International 2026 7. Unmet Needs in the Management of Adult Patients with Lupus Nephritis. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 8. Long-term outcomes of childhood nephrotic syndrome. — Kidney International 2026 9. Early BK Polyomavirus-Specific Immunity and Viral Clearance. — Kidney International Reports 2026 10. Data from the French Daily-Luma cohort suggest predictors of a lumasiran response. — Kidney International 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/9hjxc8abup

  5. Sep 23

    This Week in Nephrology — Sep 23, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Access to Kidney Transplant After the 21st Century Cures Act (JAMA, 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 clust… This week's papers: 1. Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Access to Kidney Transplant After the 21st Century Cures Act. — JAMA 2026 2. Evaluation of eculizumab for the prevention of delayed graft function after kidney transplantation in adults: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled tr… — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 3. Delayed immune tolerance intentionally achieved years after two-haplotype matched kidney transplantation. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 4. Automated chemiluminescence immunoassay for the detection of anti-nephrin autoantibodies. — Kidney International 2026 5. Rituximab With or Without Avacopan in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis With Severe Renal Involvement. — Kidney International Reports 2026 6. Approach to Hematuria: Core Curriculum 2026. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 7. Safety of Sodium/Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and CKD. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 8. 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 9. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome. — Hypertension 2026 10. 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 https://audioscholar.cc/episode/v9neqk96wx

  6. Sep 16

    This Week in Nephrology — Sep 16, 2026

    Editor's Pick: 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) 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 re… This week's papers: 1. 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 2. Complement in Kidney Disease: Core Curriculum 2026. — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 3. Sparsentan - SGLT2 inhibitor combination therapy in trials of IgA nephropathy. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 4. Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in CKD: Contemporary Insights into Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. 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 6. Mechanisms of regeneration and maladaptive repair in acute kidney injury. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 7. Temporal Changes in the Recovery and Utilization of Kidneys Donated After Circulatory Death in the United States. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 8. 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 9. Predicting High-Risk CKD in Japanese People: Model Development and Validation. — Kidney International Reports 2026 10. 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 https://audioscholar.cc/episode/nnqc7ckgjk

  7. Sep 9

    This Week in Nephrology — Sep 9, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Efficacy and safety of canagliflozin are consistent across polypharmacy burden in CKD: the CREDENCE trial (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 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 sh… This week's papers: 1. Porcine kidney xenotransplantation as a bridge to allotransplantation: a first-in-human study. — The Lancet 2026 2. Protocol kidney biopsy in the management of proliferative (class III/IV) lupus nephritis: barking up the wrong tree! — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 3. Efficacy and safety of canagliflozin are consistent across polypharmacy burden in CKD: the CREDENCE trial. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 4. Predictive Value of Urine Tubular Biomarkers on Kidney Outcomes: Observations from EMPA-KIDNEY. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. Inflammation as a therapeutic target to improve kidney and cardiovascular outcomes. — Nature Reviews Nephrology 2026 6. CKD risk with tegoprazan versus proton pump inhibitors. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 7. Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio Reveals Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Risk Reclassification in Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic-Era Community Scree… — Kidney360 2026 8. A Randomized Pilot Trial of a Nephrologist Communication Tool for Discussing Conservative Management. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 9. Regional Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of Transplant Referral Networks. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 10. 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 https://audioscholar.cc/episode/c4fw6sugta

  8. Sep 2

    This Week in Nephrology — Sep 2, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Peritonitis and Mortality Risks of Gastric Acid Suppressants in Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis (Kidney International Reports, 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 documen… This week's papers: 1. Asia-Pacific Summit on Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Diabetes and Blood Pressure Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: A KDIGO Summit Repor… — Kidney International 2026 2. SEISMIC: A multi-stakeholder summit addressing access issues in diagnosis and treatment of C3G nephropathy and IC-MPGN. — Kidney International 2026 3. An International Expert Consensus Statement and Guidance Document on Implementation of Nutritional Supplementation in Patients on Dialysis. — Kidney International Reports 2026 4. Heterogeneity of Nephrotoxic Risk Across Medication Classes and Combinations in Hospitalized Adults. — Kidney360 2026 5. Intradialytic Myocardial Stunning in Hemodialysis Dependent End Stage Kidney Disease. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 6. Systolic Blood Pressure Variability and Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 7. Peritonitis and Mortality Risks of Gastric Acid Suppressants in Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis. — Kidney International Reports 2026 8. Burden and Risk Factors for Staphylococcus aureus-Related Sepsis among US Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Claims-Based Cohort Study. — Kidney360 2026 9. Randomized Trial of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation in CKD Pregnancy (ORCHARD-BEET). — Kidney International Reports 2026 10. Advancing Water and Dialysate Standards for High-Volume Hemodiafiltration in the United States: From Scientific Rationale to Clinical Implementation. — Kidney360 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/kbb5mm3prw

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