Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the most common cause of CKD and ESRD worldwide. The 2022 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in CKD, produced with ISN endorsement and published...
Chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) is a systemic condition arising from disturbances in mineral metabolism, bone architecture, and vascular calcification that accompany progres...
Kidney disease is a silent but formidable global health challenge. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects an estimated 850 million people worldwide, while acute kidney injury (AKI) contributes to millio...
The global shortage of donor kidneys for transplantation remains one of the most pressing challenges in nephrology and transplantation medicine. The 2022 Global Observatory on Donation and Transplanta...
International Society of Nephrology Highlights the Emerging Role of Gut Microbiome in Kidney Disease
The gut microbiome has attracted substantial scientific interest as a potential contributor to CKD progression and as a therapeutic target in nephrology. The first systematic characterization of gut d...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients around the world wait for a kidney transplant that may never come. Kidney failure — the irreversible loss of kidney function — requires either long-term d...
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) adequacy and membrane preservation are central to long-term outcomes in ESRD patients treated with this modality. The KDIGO 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Peritoneal Dia...
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a pattern of glomerular injury characterized by segmental scarring, presenting clinically with heavy proteinuria and frequently progressing to ESRD. The ge...
Home dialysis modalities, including peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD), have gained increasing scientific and clinical attention as alternatives to conventional in-center hemodialysi...
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have emerged as one of the most significant advances in nephrology in recent decades. The CREDENCE trial (Perkovic et al., New England Journal of Medi...