Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Perspective

• S2 Episode 4: Chronic Kidney Disease: FSGS, Genetic Testing, and APOL1   Join Drs Matthew Sparks and Kirk Campbell as they dive into the murky waters of focal segmental glomerular sclerosis. How do you diagnose? How do you treat? Tune in to find out.
  Medscape, September 26, 2023
• Automated Insulin Delivery System, Not an Artificial Pancreas   Anne L. Peters, MD, explains why the term artificial pancreas is wrong and why automated insulin delivery system is correct.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 24, 2023
• S1 Episode 5: A CKD Diagnosis: Now What?   How do you talk with patients about kidney health, lifestyle risks, or transplantation? Drs Sparks, Diamantidis, and Farouk discuss the science, current studies, and their clinical experience.
  Medscape, November 10, 2022
• S1 Episode 4: Disparities in Care: Race, Equity, and CKD in the US   Join experts Drs Matthew Sparks and Dinushika Mohottige as they discuss disparities in care for individuals who have chronic kidney disease in the United States.
  Medscape, October 12, 2022
• S1 Episode 3: Behind the Scenes: Pig-to-Human Kidney Xenotransplantation   Drs Sparks and Kumar go behind the scenes and discuss the preparation, surgery, and outcome of the pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation at the University of Alabama.
  Medscape, September 15, 2022
• S1 Episode 2: How to Manage Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care   What do primary care providers need to know to improve care for people with chronic kidney disease? Drs Matthew Sparks and Ian de Boer provide key clinical takeaways that can't be ignored.
  Medscape, August 11, 2022
• Approaching ASCO 2022: Reaching New Plateaus in the Treatment of Melanoma   Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, discusses the follow-ups on previously published studies that he anticipates hearing during the upcoming ASCO conference.
  Medscape, May 26, 2022
• Strangers Donating Kidneys: 'Important Contributions' Kidney donations from strangers have been increasing, but there is still need for more. Dr Divyanshu Malhotra reviews current programs and offers ways to increase 'Good Samaritan' donations.
  Medscape Nephrology, April 29, 2022
• Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 10, 2022
• How a Low-Protein Diet Can Delay Dialysis The low-protein PLADO diet can boost the effects of medications and help preserve renal function.
  Medscape Nephrology, November 05, 2021
• ERA-EDTA 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2021
  Medscape Nephrology, June 07, 2021
• Organ Harvesting's Troubled Past — and Complicated Present With the rise of organ transplantation came difficult ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life.
  Undark, April 15, 2021
• NKF 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from the virtual NKF 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings
  Medscape Nephrology, April 01, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor Leaked Private Information to Patient's Family Treating patients from the same family who live together can raise your risk for privacy violations.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, March 08, 2021
• Does Oxygenated Cold Perfusate Improve Transplant Outcomes? If ischemia is a barrier to organ preservation, will the addition of oxygen to cold preservation solutions improve renal transplant outcomes?
  Medscape Nephrology, January 28, 2021
• The Kidney and COVID-19: What We Know so Far   Nephrologists Matthew Sparks and Samira Farouk, of the Freely Filtered podcast, discuss the kidney effects of COVID-19 -- what is and isn't clear in patients with and without preexisting kidney disease.
  Medscape Nephrology, August 10, 2020
• ERA-EDTA 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, June 09, 2020
• NKF 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from NKF 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, March 23, 2020
• Top 5 Diabetes Highlights From 2019 For the first time in several years, a cardiovascular outcomes trial may not be the most exciting diabetes news of the year. Here are 2019's highlights from Dr Harpreet Bajaj.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, January 17, 2020
• Trump Should Get Kudos for Looking at Kidney Dialysis, Transplant   Dr Art Caplan discusses President Trump's ideas regarding re-examination of dialysis and kidney transplant in the US, and the need to improve access to immunosuppressive drugs post-transplant.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, August 30, 2019