Incorporating kidney disease measures into cardiovascular risk prediction: Development and validation in 9 million adults from 72 datasets.

By Amir Safavi | October 14, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100552 Authors: Matsushita, Kunihiro; Jassal, Simerjot K; Sang, Yingying; Ballew, Shoshana H; Grams, Morgan E; Surapaneni, Aditya; Arnlov, Johan; Bansal, Nisha; Bozic, Milica; Brenner, Hermann; Brunskill, Nigel J; Chang, Alex R; Chinnadurai, Rajkumar; Cirillo, Massimo; Correa, Adolfo; Ebert, Natalie; Eckardt, Kai-Uwe; Gansevoort, Ron T; Gutierrez, Orlando; Hadaegh, Farzad; He, Jiang; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Jafar, Tazeen…

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Utilization of Deep Learning for Subphenotype Identification in Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.

By Amir Safavi | October 8, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.09330819 Authors: Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Vaid, Akhil; Duffy, Áine; Paranjpe, Ishan; Jaladanki, Suraj; Paranjpe, Manish; Johnson, Kipp; Gokhale, Avantee; Pattharanitima, Pattharawin; Chauhan, Kinsuk; O’Hagan, Ross; Van Vleck, Tielman; Coca, Steven G; Cooper, Richard; Glicksberg, Benjamin; Bottinger, Erwin P; Chan, Lili; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: Sepsis-associated AKI is a heterogeneous clinical entity. We aimed to agnostically…

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Characteristics and Outcomes of Individuals With Pre-existing Kidney Disease and COVID-19 Admitted to Intensive Care Units in the United States.

By Amir Safavi | September 19, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/S0272-6386(20)30999-9 Authors: Flythe, Jennifer E; Assimon, Magdalene M; Tugman, Matthew J; Chang, Emily H; Gupta, Shruti; Shah, Jatan; Sosa, Marie Anne; Renaghan, Amanda DeMauro; Melamed, Michal L; Wilson, F Perry; Neyra, Javier A; Rashidi, Arash; Boyle, Suzanne M; Anand, Shuchi; Christov, Marta; Thomas, Leslie F; Edmonston, Daniel; Leaf, David E; , Abstract: Underlying kidney…

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Outcomes of critically ill solid organ transplant patients with COVID-19 in the United States.

By Amir Safavi | September 15, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16280 Authors: Molnar, Miklos Z; Bhalla, Anshul; Azhar, Ambreen; Tsujita, Makoto; Talwar, Manish; Balaraman, Vasanthi; Sodhi, Amik; Kadaria, Dipen; Eason, James D; Hayek, Salim S; Coca, Steven G; Shaefi, Shahzad; Neyra, Javier A; Gupta, Shruti; Leaf, David E; Kovesdy, Csaba P; , Abstract: National data on patient characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of critically ill…

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AKI in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.

By Amir Safavi | September 3, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2020050615 Authors: Chan, Lili; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Saha, Aparna; Chauhan, Kinsuk; Vaid, Akhil; Zhao, Shan; Paranjpe, Ishan; Somani, Sulaiman; Richter, Felix; Miotto, Riccardo; Lala, Anuradha; Kia, Arash; Timsina, Prem; Li, Li; Freeman, Robert; Chen, Rong; Narula, Jagat; Just, Allan C; Horowitz, Carol; Fayad, Zahi; Cordon-Cardo, Carlos; Schadt, Eric; Levin, Matthew A; Reich, David L; Fuster,…

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The association of standard Kt/V and surface area-normalized standard Kt/V with clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients.

By Amir Safavi | August 18, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/hdi.12865 Authors: Pattharanitima, Pattharawin; Chauhan, Kinsuk; El Shamy, Osama; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Sharma, Shuchita; Coca, Steven G; Nadkarni, Girish N; Uribarri, Jaime; Chan, Lili Abstract: A previous study demonstrated that the surface area-normalized standard Kt/V (SAstdKt/V) was better associated with mortality than standard Kt/V (stdKt/V). This study investigates the association of SAstdKt/V and stdKt/V with…

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Conversion of Urine Protein-Creatinine Ratio or Urine Dipstick Protein to Urine Albumin-Creatinine Ratio for Use in Chronic Kidney Disease Screening and Prognosis : An Individual Participant-Based Meta-analysis.

By Amir Safavi | July 14, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-0529 Authors: Sumida, Keiichi; Nadkarni, Girish N; Grams, Morgan E; Sang, Yingying; Ballew, Shoshana H; Coresh, Josef; Matsushita, Kunihiro; Surapaneni, Aditya; Brunskill, Nigel; Chadban, Steve J; Chang, Alex R; Cirillo, Massimo; Daratha, Kenn B; Gansevoort, Ron T; Garg, Amit X; Iacoviello, Licia; Kayama, Takamasa; Konta, Tsuneo; Kovesdy, Csaba P; Lash, James; Lee, Brian J;…

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Derivation and validation of genome-wide polygenic score for urinary tract stone diagnosis.

By Amir Safavi | June 12, 2020 |

Link: https://doi.org/S0085-2538(20)30641-4 Authors: Paranjpe, Ishan; Tsao, Noah; Judy, Renae; Paranjpe, Manish; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Klarin, Derek; Forrest, Iain; O’Hagan, Ross; Kapoor, Arjun; Pfail, John; Jaladanki, Suraj; Chaudhry, Fayzan; Vaid, Akhil; Duy, Phan Q; , ; , ; He, John Cijiang; Glicksberg, Benjamin S; Coca, Steven G; Gupta, Mantu; Do, Ron; Damrauer, Scott M; Nadkarni, Girish N…

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