This Week in Nephrology — Jun 20, 2026

Welcome to This Week in Nephrology. This week we are covering nine notable papers spanning clinical management strategies in vulnerable kidney populations, precision medicine and individualized care, and translational breakthroughs in imaging, geneti…

This week's papers: 1. Kidney Outcomes After Contrast Exposure in Patients Recovering From Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury: A Target Trial Emulation Study — American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2026 2. Comparing Catheters to Fistulas in Older Patients Starting Hemodialysis (ACCESS HD) — Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 3. Non-invasive quantitative assessment of kidney injury using near-infrared autofluorescence imaging — Kidney International 2026 4. A cluster randomized controlled trial (GOAL trial) evaluated a comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail older people with chronic kidney disease — Kidney International 2026 5. The Effect of Gender-Affirming Hormone Treatment on Kidney Function Trajectories in Transgender and Gender Diverse Veterans — Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2026 6. Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents — Nature 2026 7. Genome-wide Screen Identifies Peroxisomal Role in APOL1 Podocytopathy — Kidney International 2026 8. Evidence- and Consensus-based European Guideline for Immunosuppressive Therapy After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation — Transplantation 2026 9. Donor bone marrow together with recipient regulatory T cells induces chimerism without irradiation in kidney transplantation — Science Translational Medicine 2026

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