Provider Perspectives and Clinical Outcomes with Inpatient Telenephrology.

Background And Objectives: Despite the dramatic increase in the provision of virtual nephrology care, only anecdotal reports of outcomes without comparators to usual care exist in the literature. This study aimed to provide objective determination of clinical noninferiority of hybrid (telenephrology plus face-to-face) versus standard (face-to-face) inpatient nephrology care.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: This retrospective study compares objective outcomes in patients who received inpatient hybrid care versus standard nephrology care at two Mayo Clinic Health System community hospitals.

Telehealth versus face-to-face visits: A comprehensive outpatient perspective-based cohort study of patients with kidney disease.

Background: Telenephrology has become an important health care delivery modality during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about patient perspectives on the quality of care provided via telenephrology compared to face-to-face visits. We aimed to use objective data to study patients' perspectives on outpatient nephrology care received via telenephrology (phone and video) versus face-to-face visits.

Peritoneal-mediastinal communication complication in peritoneal dialysis.

Peritoneal-mediastinal communication is a rare complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). We report the first case of peritoneal-mediastinal communication complication in a 36-year-old Caucasian man on continuous cycler peritoneal dialysis (CCPD) after undergoing cardiac surgery. He developed end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) due to calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity and BK virus nephropathy in the setting of prior heart transplantation.