Tag: intermittent hemodialysis

Prolonged Intermittent Kidney Replacement Therapy Reviewed by Drs. Zoey Levine and Anitha Vijayan in CJASN Special Series

WashU Nephrology fellow Zoey Levine, MD, and Professor of Medicine Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, discuss the option of prolonged intermittent kidney replacement therapy (PIKRT) in the management of patients with kidney failure in a review published in CJASN’s special series Critical Care Nephrology and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).   PIKRT is a hybrid form of […]

Anitha Vijayan Presents Lecture at UAB on Benefits of Nocturnal PIRRT

Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, was the invited Jerry Jackson Lecturer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where she discussed “Hybrid Renal Replacement Therapy Modalities in the Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).”  Vijayan, Medical Director of Acute Dialysis Services, oversees the renal replacement therapy program in the intensive care units at Barnes-Jewish […]