This Week in Nephrology — Aug 27, 2026

Editor's Pick: Dialysis Discontinuation Rates at Low Levels of Kidney Function in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury on Intermittent Hemodialysis (Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2026)

Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning dialysis decision-making and drug therapy at the extremes of kidney function, biomarkers and biopsy classification that sharpen how we phenotype glomerular diseas…

This week's papers: 1. Outcomes from the International Society of Nephrology Forum on Complement Therapeutics in C3G & IgAN. — Kidney International 2026 2. Diagnosis and management of acute hyperkalaemia. — BMJ 2026 3. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use and Risks of Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 4. Dialysis Discontinuation Rates at Low Levels of Kidney Function in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury on Intermittent Hemodialysis. — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 5. Improving the Histologic Classification of Advanced Diabetic Nephropathy Based on the Transformative Research in Diabetic Nephropathy (TRIDENT) Findings. — Kidney International 2026 6. Evaluating Patterns and Outcomes in the Prescription of Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis in Support of Shared Decision-Making. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 7. Vaccination and Safe Living Strategies for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious… — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 8. Serum levels of guanidinylated YB-1 indicate active lupus nephritis. — Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2026 9. Performance-Based Frailty Tools Capture Distinct Risk Phenotypes in Kidney Transplant Candidates: A Comparative Analysis of FRAIL and SPPB. — American Journal of Transplantation 2026 10. Plasma Levels of Growth Differentiation Factor 15 and Adverse Kidney Outcomes: Proteomics-Based Mediation Analysis and Mendelian Randomization. — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026

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