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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦
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Nephrologist = kidney doctor
MD, MPH
Professor, University of Ottawa/Ottawa Hospital 🇨🇦
He/Him/His
#NephJC co-creator, @FreelyFiltered.bsky.social pod panelist
#NephSky
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3/ Most tophi are also associated with crystalline clefts formed by the deposition of monosodium urate (see arrow). Urate crystals are best seen in alcohol-fixed tissue or in frozen tissue sections, since most crystals dissolve after routine formalin fixation.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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arkanalabs.bsky.social
2/ Tophi frequently occur in the medulla, and usually consist of central regions of acellular, granular material surrounded by epithelioid macrophages, syncytial-type giant cells, and lymphocytes.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
No dialysis >>> better dialysis?

Prevention is where the action is

Though looking forward to the H4RT trial

#Kidneywk
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
It was the patient experience component of @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social CHW trial

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#KidneyWk
Participant Experiences in a Kidney Failure Care Intervention
This qualitative study examines the perspectives of Latino individuals with dialysis-dependent kidney failure who received the Navigate-Kidney intervention.
jamanetwork.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
Read this with this @asnkidney.bsky.social statement

journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltex... from @kdpsingh.bsky.social and others

@asnpublications.bsky.social

#NephSky #AI #LLM
journals.lww.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
Subscribe here www.nephjc.com/newsletter

#NephJC
Newsletter — NephJC
www.nephjc.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
hswapnil.medsky.social
16 is same as last year

someone check if I have missed anything

Read our blogs here www.nephjc.com/news/kidneyw...

#NephJC #KidneyWk

@nephroseeker.medsky.social @brendonneuen.bsky.social
Kidney Week in Houston: Day 1 — NephJC
in this edition: Atacicept in IgAN; Albuminuria as a surrogate outcome, Renal Remission and additional CONFIDENCE analysis
www.nephjc.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
that comes to

NEJM 3
JAMA 4
JAMA IM 1
JNO 1
Lancet 2
Nature Med 1
JASN 2
KI 1
KI Reports 1

= 16

#KidneyWk
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
Sibeprelimab again in NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

MIRO CKD Balcinrenone www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#KidneyWk
Sibeprenlimab in IgA Nephropathy — Interim Analysis of a Phase 3 Trial | NEJM
The cytokine A proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) is considered a key driver of the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy. Sibeprenlimab, a humanized IgG2 monoclonal antibody, selectively binds to and...
www.nejm.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
Flozin metanalyses
1 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41202026/
2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

CHW support main jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Patient exp jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
ADAPT framework www.kireports.org/article/S246...

IS in older Tx pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41201871/

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Effects of Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors by Diabetes Status and Level of Albuminuria: A Meta-Analysis - PubMed
Within the studied participants, there were clear absolute benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors on kidney, hospitalization, and mortality outcomes irrespective of diabetes status and level of UACR.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM