The
American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), the official journal of the
National Kidney Foundation, is recognized worldwide as a leading source of information devoted to
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Each issue of AJKD includes a mix of research findings and educational content. Original Investigations—fully reviewed not only by peer reviewers but also by statistics experts to ensure validity-describe the latest findings related to pathogenesis and treatment of kidney disease, hypertension, acid-base and electrolyte disorders, dialysis therapies, and kidney transplantation. Case Reports highlight new diseases, novel presentations, and potential therapeutic strategies. In addition, AJKD's rich array of educational and special interest features includes narrative reviews, editorials, teaching cases, quizzes, and articles focusing on translational research, clinical practice, and socioeconomic aspects of kidney disease and treatment.
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ISSN NUMBER |
0272-6386 |
Format |
Journal |
Publisher |
SAUNDERS |
Volume Number |
Volumes 77-78 |
Frequency |
6 issues |
Editor-in-Chief ,Harold I. Feldman ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,Deputy Editors ,Jeffrey S. Berns ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Laura M. Dember ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,Engagement Editor ,Holly J. Mattix-Kramer ,,Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States,Associate Editors ,Roy D. Bloom ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Tamara Isakova ,,Northwestern University, Illinois, United States, ,James S. Kaufman ,,VA NY Harbor Healthcare System Manhattan Campus, New York, New York, United States, ,Charmaine E. Lok ,,University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ,Sankar D. Navaneethan ,,Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States, ,Peter P. Reese ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,International Editors ,Richard Haynes ,,University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ,Magdalena Madero ,,Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico,Feature Editors ,Agnes B. Fogo ,,Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Linda Fried ,,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Asghar Rastegar ,,Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,Dena E. Rifkin ,,University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States, ,Daniel E. Weiner ,,Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Timothy Yau ,,Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States,Pathology Editor ,Matthew B. Palmer ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,Statistics/Methods Editors ,Jesse Yenchih Hsu ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Christopher H. Schmid ,,Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, ,Wei (Peter) Yang ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,Editorial Interns ,Krishna Agarwal ,,Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts, United States, ,Debbie Chen ,,University of California San Francisco, California, United States, ,Racquel Holmes ,,Duke University, North Carolina, United States, ,Arun Rajasekaran ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States,Editorial Office ,Nijsje Dorman ,,,Editors Emeriti ,George Porter ,,,Editorial Board ,Charles E. Alpers ,,University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,Nisha Bansal ,,UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,Andrew S. Bomback ,,Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States, ,L. Ebony Boulware ,,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States, ,Ursula C. Brewster ,,YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Connecticut, United States, ,Maurice Alan Brookhart ,,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ,Steven M. Brunelli ,,Davita Clinical Research, Needham, Massachusetts, United States, ,Emmanuel A. Burdmann ,,University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ,Anna Burgner ,,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Kerri Cavanaugh ,,Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Glenn Chertow ,,STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California, United States, ,Michael J. Choi ,,Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, ,Beatrice Concepcion ,,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Mirela Dobre ,,UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, ,Paul Drawz ,,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, ,Kevin F. Erickson ,,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, ,Samira Farouk ,,Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,Steven Fishbane ,,Northwell Health, Great Neck, New York, United States, ,Jennifer E. Flythe ,,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ,Robert Foley ,,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, ,Masafumi Fukagawa ,,Tokai University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, ,Susan Furth ,,THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Ron T. Gansevoort ,,University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ,Amit X. Garg ,,Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, ,Morgan Grams ,,JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Yoshio N. Hall ,,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,Meera Harhay ,,Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Swapnil Hiremath ,,University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ,Jeffrey Hodgin ,,UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Lesley A. Inker ,,TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER INC, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Vivekanand Jha ,,The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India, ,Kenar D. Jhaveri ,,Northwell Health, Great Neck, New York, United States, ,Kirsten Johansen ,,Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, ,David Johnson ,,Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ,Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh ,,University of California Irvine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Orange, California, United States, ,Anna Köttgen ,,University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ,Csaba P. Kovesdy ,,The University of Tennessee Division of Nephrology, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, ,Abhijit V. Kshirsagar ,,UNC Kidney Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ,Eduardo Lacson, Jr ,,Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,James P. Lash ,,University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,Edgar V. Lerma ,,University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,Kathleen Liu ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,Claudia M. Lora ,,University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,Mark A. Lusco ,,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ,Laura Mariani ,,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Kunihiro Matsushita ,,Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Mara McAdams-DeMarco ,,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Paul Muntner ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, ,Behzad Najafian ,,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,Ann M. O'Hare ,,UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,Ikechi Okpechi ,,University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, ,Biff F. Palmer ,,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,Chirag Parikh ,,Johns Hopkins University Division of Nephrology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, ,Martha Pavlakis ,,BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Roberto Pecoits-Filho ,,Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, CURITIBA, Brazil, ,Carmen A. Peralta ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,Mark A. Perazella ,,YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,Jeffrey Perl ,,University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ,Paul Phelan ,,Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ,Laura Plantinga ,,Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,Kevan R. Polkinghorne ,,Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, ,Neil R. Powe ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,Giuseppe Remuzzi ,,Mario Negri Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche (IRCCS), Negri Bergamo Lab., Bergamo, Italy, ,Helmut G. Rennke ,,Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,Ana Ricardo ,,University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,Bruce M. Robinson ,,Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Michael V. Rocco ,,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, ,Roger Rodby ,,RUSH UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,Rajiv Saran ,,UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,Deirdre Sawinski ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Jane O. Schell ,,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Tariq Shafi ,,University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States, ,Michael G. Shlipak ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,Manoocher Soleimani ,,University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, ,Manish Sood ,,University of Ottawa Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ,Matthew A. Sparks ,,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States, ,Wendy L. St. Peter ,,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, ,Natalie Staplin ,,University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ,Maarten W. Taal ,,University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, ,Navdeep Tangri ,,University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, ,Gregory E. Tasian ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,Marcello Tonelli ,,University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ,Allison Tong ,,The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ,Joel M. Topf ,,Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States, ,Robert Toto ,,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,Ifeoma Ulasi ,,University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria, ,Mark Unruh ,,The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, ,Bradley A. Warady ,,Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, ,Angela Webster ,,The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ,Francis Weng ,,SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER, Livingston, New Jersey, United States, ,Francis Wilson ,,YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer ,,BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Houston, Texas, United States, ,Jerry Yee ,,HENRY FORD HOSPITAL, Detroit, Michigan, United States, ,Xueqing Yu ,,Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, ,Luxia Zhang ,,Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China, ,Carmine Zoccali ,,Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Reggio Calabria, Italy