Easy Kidney-Healthy Recipes.

As the diet for people with CKD changes based on new clinical trials, patients are not clear on how to accurately use their diet to protect their kidneys or best manage their electrolytes if they are on dialysis. They often make restrictions where they shouldn't and miss the dietary interventions that could actually make a difference. In this article, I present four recipes that can be tailored to any stage of kidney disease.

The Kidney Diet Challenge: An Experiential Educational Experience.

Background: Health care providers who care for patients with CKD must be able to provide effective counseling about a kidney-friendly diet. Nutrition is underemphasized in medical curricula, and the kidney diet is one of the most challenging diets. We hypothesized that participation in an experiential educational program in kidney diet would result in improved knowledge of the underlying principles behind it and provide concrete examples of how to explain this diet to patients.

Ultrastructure as a diagnostic adjunct in the evaluation of lung allograft biopsies.

Humoral immunity contributes significantly to lung graft dysfunction. Recognizing a role of ultrastructural studies in the evaluation and diagnosis of chronic humoral allograft rejection in the kidney, the authors sought to explore its utility as a diagnostic adjunct in lung allograft biopsies. Ultrastructural studies were conducted on 44 biopsies from 26 lung transplant recipients.