Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026PowerPoint slides for the FIND-CKD primary presentation and NOW freely available – including the glomerular disease, data and INFINITY (IPD meta-analysis). Use them, adapt them, share them as you like - All FIND-CKD program presentations and publications now live at www.find-CKD.com 0102
Reposted by Brendon NeuenMedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 08/06/2026Finerenone (Kerendia) slowed the decline of kidney function in adults with CKD who did not have diabetes, the large randomized FIND-CKD trial showed. @brendonneuen.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…medpagetoday.comFinerenone Also Slows Kidney Decline in Diabetes-Free PatientsBenefits were consistent across glomerular disease subtypes, too 023
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 16/04/2026Excellent podcasts From the HCP team of Shikha Wadhwani and @brendonneuen.bsky.social www.hcplive.com/podcasts/kid... on the #ISNWCN high impact trials with the PIs @theisn.orghcplive.comKidney Compass: Navigating Clinical Trials | Podcasts | HCPLiveKidney Compass: Navigating Clinical Trials | Podcasts | HCPLive is a clinical news and information portal, offering physicians specialty and disease-specific resources, conference coverage, and inter... 141
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026@nephjc.bsky.social can I do a straw poll - what are you doing WRT iron when TSAT low but Hb 120 or higher for example? Ie iron deficiency and no indication to start an ESA 462
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 19/11/2025In the last #KidneyKompass @brendonneuen.bsky.social chats with Sophia Zoungas podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k... on the SURPASS data G-force FTW @christosargyrop.bsky.social @rnflex.bsky.social Hey @brianrifkin.bsky.social if sema is captopril what would you call dulaglutide? 😏podcasts.apple.comUnderstanding Renal Outcomes in SURPASS-CVOT, With Sophia Zoungas, MBBS, PhDPodcast Episode · Kidney Compass: Navigating Clinical Trials · 2025-11-13 · 17m 094
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025T0d: #NephJC 🛑Remission is defined an eGFR decline of ~1 ml/min/1.73 m²/year, closer to physiological rate 📉Vs 2-3 ml per year with only conservative therapy; hopefully, B-cell therapies will further flatten the slope By @brendonneuen.bsky.social &Co pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... 286
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 09/11/202516 is same as last year someone check if I have missed anything Read our blogs here www.nephjc.com/news/kidneyw... #NephJC #KidneyWk @nephroseeker.medsky.social @brendonneuen.bsky.socialnephjc.comKidney Week in Houston: Day 1 — NephJCin this edition: Atacicept in IgAN; Albuminuria as a surrogate outcome, Renal Remission and additional CONFIDENCE analysis 152
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 09/11/2025OK thread of all simulpubs at this year's #KidneyWk ORIGIN-3: Atacicept pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41196369/ CKD as a curable dz? www.kidney-international.org/article/S008... Albuminuria as a surrogate endpoint www.nature.com/articles/s41...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govA Phase 3 Trial of Atacicept in Patients with IgA Nephropathy - PubMedIn this prespecified interim analysis, treatment with atacicept resulted in a significantly greater reduction in proteinuria than placebo at week 36 in patients with IgA nephropathy. (Funded by Vera Therapeutics; ORIGIN 3 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04716231.). 2115
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 08/11/2025Will we get more simultaneous publications this year than last year at #KidneyWk? We had 16 last year @brendonneuen.bsky.social @nephroseeker.medsky.social Will thread all later - but the #NephJC blog will have them all 141
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 08/11/2025And @brendonneuen.bsky.social with another simultaneous pub in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Flozination by GFR/albuminuria #KidneyWkjamanetwork.comSGLT2 Inhibitors and Kidney Outcomes by Glomerular Filtration Rate and AlbuminuriaThis meta-analysis examines whether estimated glomerular filtration rate or degree of albuminuria, as measured by urinary albumin to creatinine ratio, modifies the effects of sodium-glucose cotranspor... 1146
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 07/11/2025In the afternoon another late breaking oral session among other things at 4:30 pm @brendonneuen.bsky.social Lorundrostat A new oral GLP1 REMODEL to understand sema mechanism GBD kidney disease with @paddymark.bsky.social And @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social ! #KidneyWk 095
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 31/10/2025Is it not really TGF - and something else in the tubules? Fascinating Biomarker study in @ajkd.bsky.social from the EMPA-KIDNEY group www.ajkd.org/article/S027... cc @pranavgarimella.bsky.social #NephSky #RevengeOfTheTubules 063
Reposted by Brendon NeuenJoel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025New episode of Freely Filtered with @brendonneuen.bsky.social @hswapnil.medsky.social @captainchloride.bsky.social @sophia-kidney.bsky.social and author Muth Vaduganathan discussing the CONVINCE trial www.nephjc.com/freelyfilter... With chapters, refs, and pictures 075
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 17/10/2025And three ‘late breaking research’ orals each evening Thursday - Saturday #KidneyWk 242
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 17/10/2025A second High Impact trial session in plenary hall on Saturday AM #KidneyWk 131
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 17/10/2025It’s all live now! Apart from the two trials mentioned above We have 5 more sessions at #KidneyWk + posters High Impact Trials 1 on Friday AM in plenary hall 111
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 16/10/2025The opening plenary at #KidneyWk looks phenomenal Renal RCT Renaissance is upon us (LBCT list drops tomorrow) www.asn-online.org/education/ki... 22012
Reposted by Brendon NeuenJosh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025In this house we drink liquids and support #nephjc (Maybe I should get a backpack next time) Donate at: www.nephjc.com/news/2025/9/... 1115
Reposted by Brendon NeuenCVCT Forum @cvctforum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Take the ultimate deep dive in major recent clinical trials with the largest global gathering of clinical trials key stakeholders at #CVCT2025, December 8-10, 2025 in Washington DC ! Discover the scientific program here: www.globalcvctforum.com/scientific-p... #clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch #CVCT 001
Reposted by Brendon NeuenCVCT Forum @cvctforum.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Join us December 8-10, Washington DC! Full programme here: www.globalcvctforum.com/scientific-p...globalcvctforum.comCVCT Global Forum Scientific Program 2025Discover the unique high science & discussion program for CVCT 2025 (Global CardioVascular Trialists Forum), December 8-10, at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington DC 001
Reposted by Brendon NeuenJoel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Interesting slide #BucketOfColdWater 021
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025📢 New in CJASN: pooled analysis of all completed phase 2/3 RCTs in #IgAN 🔹 4 drug classes (steroids, B-cell, complement, non-immunological) 🔹 All ↓ proteinuria ≥30% 🔹 All improved GFR slope 🔹 Biggest benefit: B-cell therapies journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstra... 040
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025If you want to support #NephJC and get some cool merch, check out www.nephjc.com/merch... 033
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Times @nephtimes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Attending Kidney Week 2025? Check out details about the plenaries. We'll be there, at Booth 2234! #kidneywk #nephrology #nephsky @asnkidney.bsky.social www.docwirenews.com/post/asn-rev...docwirenews.comASN Reveals Kidney Week Plenary Details | Docwire NewsThe American Society of Nephrology announced details of the plenary sessions scheduled to take place at Kidney Week 2025, which will take place November 6-9, in Houston, Texas. 001
Reposted by Brendon NeuenISNkidneycare @theisn.org · 21/08/2025Your abstract could be next to inspire change in kidney care. When you share your research at #ISNWCN, the benefits go far beyond the presentation. • Global visibility • Peer recognition • Publication opportunity Submit your abstract today ➡️ lite.spr.ly/6... 023
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025😎Check out the VA for HiLO by @sejalplakhani.bsky.social 🆒 This should be quite the discussion, don't miss it! #NephJC #NephSky www.nephjc.com/news/2025/8/4/the-hilo-trial-visual-abstractnephjc.comThe HiLo Trial - Visual Abstract — NephJCIs a lower versus higher phosphate target beneficial to patients undergoing hemodialysis? Check out this crisp VA by Dr Sejal Lakhani 01613
Reposted by Brendon NeuenISNkidneycare @theisn.org · 15/07/2025🌏 Join us at WCN'26 in Yokohama! 🧠 Learn from global experts 📈 Share your research 👥 Connect with peers 📅 Abstracts due Oct 22 🎬 #ISNFilmEvent submissions by Nov 5 ✈️ Travel grants & registration open Sept 16 🔗 lite.spr.ly/6... #ISNWCN 013
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025SGLT2i in CKD: impact beyond kidneys 🔻 15% all-cause hospitalizations ✅ Consistent regardless of eGFR, UACR & diabetes 🏥 ~36 fewer hospitalizations per 1000 pt-years Large absolute gains for patients & health systems Meta-analysis in @asnpublications.bsky.social journals.lww.com/cjasn/pages/... 11310
Reposted by Brendon NeuenChristos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Only reason to sequence the RASi first is that they are good antihypertensives (but note the BP effect in the combo arm of #confidence) #nephjc But no matter the sequence, the goal should be to have someone on the four pillars in less than 6 months 1116
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025@nephjc.bsky.social joining late, hi everyone 👋 nephrologist in Sydney, exec committee member of FIND-CKD, consult to both BI and Bayer and a number of other similar companies 151
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 08/07/2025Check out the Kidney Compass 🎙️ from @brendonneuen.bsky.social and Shikha Wadhwani with Rajiv Agarwal on CONFIDENCE podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k... Prep for #NephJC tonightpodcasts.apple.comCONFIDENCE Trial at ERA 2025, with Rajiv Agarwal, MD, MSPodcast Episode · Kidney Compass: Navigating Clinical Trials · 2025-06-06 · 22m 062
Reposted by Brendon NeuenKidney International @kidneyint.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2a Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Felzartamab for IgA Nephropathy doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.05.028 #OpenAccess #IgAN #felzartamab #IgANephropathy 077
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 07/07/2025Following on CONFIDENCE (on #NephJC tomorrow) The design and baseline data from MIRO-CKD trial academic.oup.com/ndt/advance-... N = 614, balcinerone, dapagliflozin Urine ACR outcome #NephSky 073
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 02/07/2025We don’t get to discuss every important study that comes out on #NephJC Hence #NephJCShorts www.nephjc.com/news/nephjc-...nephjc.comIntroducing NephJC Shorts — NephJCIn just over a decade of critical appraisal on NephJC, we have done several experiments. Some of them have worked out phenomenally well, such as the Freely Filtered podcast. Others were not ready for ... 1159
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The #NephJC editorial team knows that plenty of papers deserve attention between our bi-monthly, full-length discussions ✨Enter #NephJCShorts - quick hits with a critical eye 🦅 on high-impact reads www.nephjc.com/news/nephjc-... #MedSky #NephSkynephjc.comIntroducing NephJC Shorts — NephJCIn just over a decade of critical appraisal on NephJC, we have done several experiments. Some of them have worked out phenomenally well, such as the Freely Filtered podcast. Others were not ready for ... 01110
Reposted by Brendon NeuenMichelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Rivka Galchen’s article in @newyorker.com: “The kidney, a tremendously under-celebrated organ, basically does four-dimensional sudoku with ions.” And that’s how I’m going to explain it from now on. 1369
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNEJM.org @nejm.org · 05/06/2025In the CONFIDENCE trial in persons with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, combination therapy with finerenone and empagliflozin led to a greater reduction in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio than either drug alone. Full trial results: nej.md/4jEVbbk #ERA25 #MedSky #Nephrology 12916
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 07/06/2025Huge Danish trial of nudges Patient level (N 22,000) + practice level (1500 practice cluster with N 28,000 pts) To increase RASination & Flozination www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1... in @ahajournals.bsky.social at #ERA25 Absolutely null effect - is the baseline too high to improve upon? 4158
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Baseline use of #SGLT2i in recent trials enrolling patients with #IgAN: Listen to the full podcast discussion between me, Shikha Wadwhani and Vlado Perkovic: hcplive.com/view/kidney-... #ERA25 #kidneycompass #sibeprenlimab #VISIONARY 021
Reposted by Brendon NeuenEdgar V. Lerma 🇵🇭 @edgarvlermamd.medsky.network · 07/06/2025Optimizing the timing and sequencing of guideline-directed medical therapy for T2D and CKD ca. 2024 from @brendonneuen.bsky.social #ERA25 🇦🇹 #Nephpearls #Cardiorenal #NephSky 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40179265/ 152
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025How will the #CONFIDENCE trial shape practice in #CKD + #T2D? I spoke with PI, Rajiv Agarwal, after his #ERA25 late-breaker on why a sequential approach may be doing our patients a disservice Full episode: hcplive.com/view/kidney-... #KidneyCompass #SGLT2i #finerenone 063
Brendon Neuen @brendonneuen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Inside story from PI Rajiv Agarwal: #CONFIDENCE done in 2 parts because of early safety concerns re simultaneous SGLT2i & nsMRA 🔹 Part A: higher GFR with ABPM after first dose 🔹 Part B: Main study without ABPM after 👍 from DSMB Full episode: www.hcplive.com/view/kidney-... #KidneyCompass #ERA25hcplive.comKidney Compass: CONFIDENCE Trial at ERA 2025, with Rajiv Agarwal, MD, MSBrendon Neuen, MBBS, PhD, is joined by Rajiv Agarwal, MD, MS to explore the concept of simultaneous initiation of SGLT2i and nsMRA in CKD and T2D. 031
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 05/06/2025The problem with starting one drug at a time is that the second drug never gets started Similar to the ‘time is now’ GDMT in HF, we need to overcome the therapeutic inertia and friction in the system @brendonneuen.bsky.social #NephSky #ERA25 292
Reposted by Brendon NeuenIzabela Zakrocka @izabelazakrocka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Awesome late breaking clinical trials session II session #ERA25 @brendonneuen.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Brendon NeuenMichael Walsh @lastwalsh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It's been a long journey but today we can share the methods and rationale for the #ACHIEVEtrial (Spiro vs placebo for patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance dialysis) and tomorrow we share the results at #era25 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comThe Aldosterone Blockade for Health Improvement Evaluation in End-Stage Renal Disease (ACHIEVE) Trial: Rationale and Clinical Research Protocol - Michael Walsh, David Collister, Martin Gallagher, Patr...Background: The mineralocorticoid aldosterone may contribute to the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients receiving maintenance dialysis. W... 22510
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 04/06/2025By the way the #ERA25 hashtag is heating up Go check it out to get the science from Vienna and also find more fresh voices to follow! #NephSky 0266
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 29/05/2025Sibeprenlimab inches closer to approval www.hcplive.com/view/fda-acc... feat @brendonneuen.bsky.social Phase 3 RCT next week at #ERA25 (& some journal?)hcplive.comFDA Accepts, Grants Priority Review to Sibeprenlimab BLA for IgA NephropathyWith the priority review acceptance of the Biologics License Application, the FDA has assigned a PDUFA target action date of November 28, 2025. 285
Reposted by Brendon NeuenNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025📅 Get ready for the next #NephJC on May 29 🧠💊 We’ll dive into: Lorundrostat for Uncontrolled Hypertension — efficacy, safety, and what it means for the future of BP management. ⏰ #NephSky #MedSKy @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/ful... 1126
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 14/05/2025If someone is close to being on dialysis, I prefer to start dialysis before biopsy FWiW #NephJC 191
Reposted by Brendon NeuenSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 23/04/2025The ASIs have arrived www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Aldosterone synthase inhibitors - first one to finish the phase 3 line #Lorundrostat #Hypertensionnejm.orgLorundrostat Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension | NEJMAldosterone dysregulation contributes to hypertension. Lorundrostat is an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, but data on its efficacy and safety in patients with hypertension are limited. In this mult... 33727