The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Swapnil Hiremath

Sophia Ambruso

AC Gomez

With Special Guest:

Amit Garg (@AmitXGarg) Nephrologist at Western University, London, and lead PI of the EnAKT LKD trial. 

Susan Q. McKenzie (LinkedIn) Co-Founder & Chair, Transplant Ambassador Program. President of the Kidney Patient and Donor Alliance of Canada.

Editor:

Joel Topf

Show Notes:

Late Braking and High Impact Clinical Trial press release

JAMA Internal Medicine

MyTEMP trial Personalised cooler dialysate for patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis (MyTEMP): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial (PubMed | NephJC | Freely Filtered)

Transplant is cheaper! An economic assessment of contemporary kidney transplant practice (PDF)

Transplant is better! Survival for waitlisted kidney failure patients receiving transplantation versus remaining on waiting list: systematic review and meta-analysis (PubMed)

Transplant disparities Association of Race and Ethnicity With Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States From 1995 to 2014 (PubMed)

MUC1 Kidney Disease Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease: An Emerging Cause of Genetic CKD (Kidney International Reports)

This study has all the adjectives: “We conducted a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel-group, open-label, registry-based, superiority, cluster- randomized clinical trial.”

Explore Transplant by Amy Waterman, PhD

Transplant Ambassador Program

Kidney Failure Risk Equation A Predictive Model for Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure (JAMA | Calculator)

The complete protocol A Quality Improvement Intervention to Enhance Access to Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation (EnAKT LKD) in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: Clinical Research Protocol of a Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial (PDF)

Pre-published statistical plan Enhance Access to Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation (EnAKT LKD): Statistical Analysis Plan of a Registry-Based, Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial (PubMed)

Hawthorne effect (Wikipedia)

The Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative “Aim for 80% of new American ESRD patients in 2025 receiving either home dialysis or a transplant” (NKF)

Tubular Secretions

Swapnil The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Wikipedia) and HBO movie of the same name (Wikipedia).

Sophia The Wheel of Time streaming on Amazon (Wikipedia) based on the series of books of the same name by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.

Susan The Woman Who Loved Giraffes movie (Website)

Amit Canadians cannot get Visas to visit India (Reuters)

AC Eagles are good at Football (Fox Sports) and Alport Connect Meeting in San Diego (Alport Syndrome Foundation Website)

Joel Live podcast recording at Kidney Week (NephJC)