A pinch of salt - A podcast by ERA

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Heart over there, kidney over here, metabolism somebody else’s problem? Not anymore. Amaryllis Van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven) makes the case for Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome as one continuum, not three separated clinics. Four drug classes, three organs, one patient, prevention upstream, …

We watch creatinine rise and fall all the time, but a failing kidney allograft is more than a numbers game. Annelies de Weerd (Erasmus MC Rotterdam) covers when to call it failure, the immunosuppression taper, and helping patients through what feels like a step backwards.

We obsess over PTH, calcium, and phosphate — yet our patients are quietly, inconveniently, fracturing. Hip fracture rates in dialysis patients dwarf the general population, and with very high mortality rates. Hugo Diniz asks Hanne Skou Jørgensen the uncomfortable question: have nephrologists been m…

Every nephrology trainee in Europe has heard about it, stressed about it, or is quietly pretending it doesn’t exist: the ESENeph. Is it a genuine European passport, or just one more exam? Hugo Diniz talks to David Lappin, about the exam’s format, its career value, and why trainees should sign up.

In acute heart failure, we’re told to take things with a pinch of salt but salt might be exactly what we should watch. Hugo Diniz welcomes Jozine ter Maaten, the principal investigator behind the PUSH-AHF trial, to argue heart failure is a sodium problem dressed as a fluid one — and why a rising cr…

This is “A pinch of salt” live from the 63rd ERA Congress! Recorded straight out of a packed Clyde Plenary Room: six trials, ninety minutes! Hugo Diniz, the new podcast host, brings you rapid-fire expert commentary with two titans of European nephrology, Alberto Ortiz and Danilo Fliser. On the menu…

Are we all about to be replaced by chatbots? Probably not — but is there a risk of Gen-AI acute tubular necrosis for those who don't adapt? Hugo Diniz is joined by Wisit Cheungpasitporn to demystify what generative AI can actually do, expose what it definitely can't (yet), and make it app…