Friday, Jan. 22, 2021

Late Breaking News

• Risks of AKI and Major Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or Coronavirus Disease 2019
  Free, full-text, Published Ahead of Print JASN article.**
• The Challenge of Insomnia for Patients on Haemodialysis
  Article from Nature Reviews Nephrology.**

News Headlines

• At Least 156 Reasons to Prioritise COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients Receiving In-Centre Haemodialysis (156 dialysis sessions per year)
  (10-page pdf) Advance Access article from NDT – article info

• Providing Care for Transgender Persons With Kidney Disease: A Narrative Review
  Free, Open Access article from Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease.
• Incidence and Outcome of SARS‐CoV‐2 Infection on Solid Organ Transplantation Recipients: A Nationwide Population‐Based Study (Italy)
  Free, full-text, Early View article from American Journal of Transplantation.
• Remdesivir in COVID-19 Patients with Impaired Renal Function
  Published Ahead of Print JASN letter to the editor.
• Ig-Responsive Relapsing Inflammatory Syndrome following COVID-19 in a Kidney Transplant Recipient
  Free, full-text, Article in Press letter to the editor from Kidney International.
• Living Related Donor Kidney Transplantation in Atypical HUS: When should it be considered?
  (10-page pdf) Early Access brief communication from Kidney360 – article info
• Safety and Efficacy of Tandem Hemodialysis and Selective Plasma Exchange in Pretransplant Desensitization of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
  Online First abstract from Blood Purification.
• Influence of Cold Ischemia Time on the Outcome of Kidney Transplants from Donors Aged 70 years and Above – A Collaborative Transplant Study Report
  Online First abstract from Transplantation.
• Preservation of Kidney Function Irrelevant of Total Kidney Volume Growth Rate with Tolvaptan Treatment in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
  Free, full-text, Online First article from Clinical and Experimental Nephrology.
• Comments Sought by KDIGO: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Guidelines
  Submit your feedback no later than February 19, 2021
• Lung Ultrasound and BNP To Detect Hidden Pulmonary Congestion in Euvolemic Hemodialysis Patients: a single centre experience
  Free, Open Access article from BMC Nephrology.
• Point of Care Ultrasonography for Objective Assessment of Heart Failure: Integration of Cardiac, Vascular, and Extravascular Determinants of Volume Status
  Free, full-text, Online First review article from Cardiorenal Medicine.
• Mortality and Hospitalizations among Sickle Cell Disease Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Initiating Dialysis
  Online First abstract from American Journal of Nephrology.
• Modification and Validation of the Phosphate Removal Model: A Multicenter Study
  Free, full-text, Online First review article from Kidney and Blood Pressure Research.
• Study Reveals New Insights into the Link Between Sunlight Exposure and Kidney Damage
  Press release from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

• A Hemodialysis Curriculum for Nephrology Fellows Using a Blended Learning Approach: Best of Both Worlds?
  Free, full-text, Online First point of view from Journal of Nephrology.

Health-Related News

• Trump’s Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds
  Article from Kaiser Health News.

Medicare-Related News

• CMS Withdraws Requirement to Report Dialysis Treatment Time
  News item from MLN Connects.  See MLN Matters Articles MM11871 (PDF) and MM12011 (PDF) .
• CMS Revises Implementation of Changes in the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Payment for Dialysis Furnished for Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in ESRD Facilities for Calendar Year (CY) 2021 (PDF)
  News item from MLN Connects. See MLN Matters Article MM12011.
• Transcript of Jan. 14 MedPAC Meeting
  (374-page pdf) Dialysis payments are discussed on pages 50-57. Presentation used (14-slide pdf). See slides 6-9 for dialysis information.