
AudioScholar Nephrology Weekly
This Week in Nephrology — Aug 20, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering ten notable papers spanning how we measure and treat chronic kidney disease, the paraprotein and immune interface with kidney disease, and transplantation and dialysis care delivery. Let's… This week's papers: 1. Combination Pharmacotherapy in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Translating Evidence into Clinical Practice — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 2. Reframing kidney outcomes in CKD trials: eGFR slopes, competing risks, and pragmatic trial design — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 3. Trends in mortality in adult first kidney transplant recipients with and without diabetes as cause of kidney failure: an ERA Registry study — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 4. Pathogenesis and Translational Perspectives in Myeloma-Associated Nephropathy — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. Monoclonal gammopathy in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis: prevalence, characteristics and outcomes — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 6. Scaling up Genomics: A Mainstream Model of Care in Nephrology — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 7. Peritoneal Dialysis in the Transplant Pathway: From Waitlist to Graft Failure — Kidney360 2026 8. Genetic determinants of serum creatinine and cystatin C independent of kidney function generate bias in filtration markers — Kidney International 2026 9. Donor Kidney Assessment-Functional Metrics and Biomarkers During Ex Situ Machine Perfusion — Transplantation 2026 10. A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Digital Health Intervention on Phosphate Control in Patients on Dialysis — Kidney360 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/uxuwh37334

