Contents


Foreword John Feehally, DM, FRCP Professor of Renal Medicine, The John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital Chronic Kidney Disease


Navigating the Challenges of Evidence-based Chronic Kidney Disease Care Joseph A Vassalotti, MD


Chief Medical Officer, National Kidney Foundation, Inc., New York and Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Anemia Management


A Safety Evaluation of Intravenous Iron Products Michael Auerbach, MD1


and Daniel W Coyne, MD2


1. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Georgetown University, Washington; 2. Professor of Medicine, Director of Hemodialysis, and Director of Outpatient Renal Services, Washington University


Biosimilars in the US—Guidance from the European Experience Islah Ahmed, MD


Global Medical Director, Hospira, Inc.


New Treatment Approaches in Chronic Kidney Disease-associated Anemia Lucia Del Vecchio, MD, PhD1


and Francesco Locatelli, MD, FRCP2


1. Clinical Staff Member; 2. Head, Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Renal Transplant, ‘Alessandro Manzoni’ Hospital


Acute Kidney Injury


Risk Factors for Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Catheterization Michael E Matheny, MS, MD, MPH,1


Edward D Siew, MD, MSCI,1 Theodore Speroff, PhD,2 Josh F Peterson, MD, MPH1 95 Frederic S Resnic, MD, MS,1 and Jeremiah R Brown, PhD, MS3


1. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Interventional Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; 2. Professor, Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Tennessee Valley Health System, Veteran’s Administration; 3. Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School


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Hyponatremia


Vasopressin Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Hyponatremia David I Ortiz-Melo, MD,1


Arthur Greenberg, MD2 100 and Ruediger W Lehrich, MD3


1. Nephrology Fellow; 2. Professor of Medicine; 3. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center


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