National Kidney Foundation 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings Abstracts

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National Kidney Foundation2014 Spring Clinical Meetings Abstracts

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY/ICU MEDICINE2 Transition to Out-Patient Hemodialysis for Acute Kidney

Injury (AKI)Emaad M Abdel-Rahman, Rasheed A Balogun; Universityof Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

7 Bilateral Renal Infarct in Otherwise Healthy ManBernice Acevedo, Sheyla Zelaya, Ricardo Correa, MarioPonce, Silvia Cuadra, Mellany Castillo, Fernando Calmet,Adela Mattiazzi; University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

16 Highest Reported Serum Creatinine in Hemolytic UremicSyndromeGhulam Akbar1, Naeem Abbas2, Saifullah Kazi1, GeoggreyTeehan1; 1Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA,USA; 2Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY

18 Subclinical and Clinical Contrast-Induced Acute KidneyInjury: Results from the Encino StudyKrittapoom Akrawinthawong1, Gillian Parker2, DavidStivers2, Louis Cannon4, Simon Dixon3, Jason Ricci4,KennethKupfer2, PatrickAlexander1, Shukri David1, PeterA.McCullough1; 1St. John-Providence Health System, Detroit/Southfield, MI, USA; 2Alere North America, San Diego, CA,USA; 3William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA;4Northern Michigan Hospital, Petoskey, MI, USA

28 Scleroderma Renal Crisis Diagnosed by Kidney BiopsyRamesh Annadurai, Udayan Bhatt; Wexner Medical Centerat The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

31 Two Cases of Fatal Cerebral Air Embolism from CentralVenous Dialysis Catheter in Pre-Transplant Liver FailurePatientsAppachu K, Smogorzewski M, Nadim MK; Keck School ofMedicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,CA, USA

39 Congestion Can Modify the Impact of Worsening RenalFunction on the Outcomes of Patients with Acute Decom-pensated Heart FailureTaha Ayach, Amir Kazory; Division of Nephrology,Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation, University ofFlorida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

40 Cytomegalovirus Induced (CMV) Poly-Arteritis Nodosa(PAN) in an Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLT) RecipientAsad Ayub, Andrew Keaveny, Hani Wadei; Department ofTransplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

45 Hydropic Tubular Changes Post Intravenous RadiopaqueContrastNader S. Bahri, Sahil Garg, Rafat Makary, Leighton James;University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

46 Complement Dysregulation: A Case of Atypical HUSEmerald Banas, Aakash Aggarwal, Meghan Rane, ArmanKhorasani-zadeh; SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY, USA

56 Renal Vasculitis with Pulmonary Involvement in an Immu-nosuppressed Patient on Chronic Treatment withHydralazineJimena Blandon, Beth Fromkin, Rute Paixao, DianneSandy, Mauro Braun; Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL,USA

66 Outcomes in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury in an InnerCity Teaching Hospital ICUShivakanth Burugu1, Elizabeth Ann Phipps1, OriadeAdeoye1, Siddhartha Yedla1, Anjali Acharya1, Ravindra L

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Mehta2; 1Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine, Bronx, NY; 2University of California,San Diego, USA

69 Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome, an Uncommon Causeof Acute Kidney InjuryAna Cerqueira, Márcio Ferreira, Ana Cardoso, FátimaCoelho, Augusta Praça, Ana Nunes, Susana Sampaio,Manuel Pestana; Hospital São João, Porto, Portugal

73 Pharmacologic Agents as Risk Factors for Post-OperativeAcute Kidney InjuryYana Cavanagh1, Allison Thomas1, Emma Punni1, VincentDeBari2, Chandra B. Chandran1; 1St. Joseph’s RegionalMedical Center, Paterson, NJ; 2Seton Hall University,S. Orange, NJ, USA

83 Waldenstrom’s Induced Cast NephropathyShailaja Chidella1, Aditya Kadiyala1, James Pullman2,Kenar D. Jhaveri1; 1Hofstra University NSLIJ School ofMedicine, NY, USA; 2Montefiore Medical Center, NY,NY, USA

92 Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in BloodlessMedicine Compared with Transfusion Eligible PatientsAnnie Culver, Liliana Osadchuk, Mahboob Khan, RichardMarcus, Barbara Clark; Allegheny General Hospital,Pittsburgh, PA, USA

94 The Furosemide Stress Test in Combination with UrinaryBiomarkers to Predict the Progression and Severity of AcuteKidney InjuryDanielle L. Davison, Ermira Brasha-Mitchell, Jay L.Koyner, Katrina Hawkins, Divya Chalikond, Michael G.Seneff, Lakhmir S. Chawla; George Washington UniversityMedical Center, Washington, DC, USA

101 Acute Interstitial Nephritis Induced by Tobramycin-Impregnated Cement Knee SpacerSimit Doshi, Jose Castaneda, Tamim Naber; Atlantic CareRegional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ, USA

105 Atypical Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome in a 44 Year OldFemale with Lupus NephritisDarryl Elefan, Glenn Kershaw; University of MassachusettsMedical School, MA, USA

113 Metformin Overdose and Early Renal Replacement TherapyKimberly Fremin, Jonathon Owen; Louisiana State Univer-sity Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

116 A Challenging Case of Atypical Hemolytic UremicSyndrome (aHUS) Successfully Treated With EculizumabSaurabh Gandhi, Navkiranjot Brar, David Butcher, RobertProvenzano; St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit,MI, USA

119 Outcomes and Predictors of Out Patient Dialysis-DependentAKISamir Gautam, Rasheed A. Balogun, Emaad M Abdel-Rahman; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

125 Acute Kidney Injury with Papillary Necrosis in a Case ofPost Stem Cell Transplant: A Case ReportRoveena Goveas1,2, Zeenat Bhat1; 1Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Detroit MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA

133 Role of Early Renal Biopsy and Intravenous Steroids inDrug Induced Acute Interstitial Nephritis in a Patient withUnderlying Chronic Kidney Disease

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Archana Gupta, Dianne Sandy, Rute Paixao; ClevelandClinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

136 Outcomes of Patients who Develop ThrombocytopeniaWhile on Continuous Renal Replacement TherapyPramod K Guru, Abbasali Akhoundi, Kianoush B Kashani;Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

147 Tenofovir Related Acute Interstitial Nephritis: A Case SeriesJudith Hernandez, Lauren Tarbox, Gregory Anstead,Christopher Dyer; University of Texas Health ScienceCenter, San Antonio, TX, USA

156 Mortality of Patients with Significant Liver DysfunctionInitiated on DialysisGina Iacovella, Neelja Kumar, Lloyd Cantley; YaleUniversity New Haven, CT, USA

158 Atypical Presentation of Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC)Hafiz Imran Iqbal, Masooma Aqeel, Hammad Qadir, SanaAkbar; Deptartment of Nephrology, West Virginia Univer-sity, School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA

159 Warfarin Related Nephropathy in the Absence of Supra-therapeutic INRHafiz Imran Iqbal, Sana Akbar; Deptartment of Nephrology,West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown,WV, USA

161 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Causing MalignantRenal Parenchymal Hypertension and Posterior ReversibleEncephalopathyKaushik Ivaturi, Roopa Dillikar, Buer Song, NagarajaSridhar; University at Buffalo, State University of NewYork, Buffalo, New York, USA

165 Incidence and Outcome of Patients Receiving CRRT ata Tertiary Care Hospital of United Arab EmiratesChandra Mauli Jha, H. Dastoor, A. Madani, A. Chaaban, S.Abouchacra, F. H. Omer, A. Saxena; Mafraq Hospital, AbuDhabi, United Arab Emirates

176 Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasound Enhances Assessment ofIntravascular Volume in Critically Ill Patients with RenalFailureMatthew J. Kaptein, John S. Kaptein, Aiman Tohid, ElaineM. Kaptein; University of Southern California, Los Angeles,CA, USA

188 Bile Cast Nephropathy: An Often Forgotten DiagnosisJared Keith, Adrian Sequeira. LSU Health ShreveportSchool of Medicine, Shreveport, LA, USA

193 Carfilzomib Related Acute Kidney Injury and PossiblePrevention StrategySeyyar Khan, Kenar D. Jhaveri, Jonathan Kolitz, RimdaWanchoo. Hofstra NSLIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead,NY, USA

195 A Case of Acute Kidney Injury Coincident with IatrogenicHyperalbuminemiaTalal Khan, Azka Arif, Monalisa Joseph, Bindu Nandigam,Muhammad Syed, Larry Krevolin, Joseph Brezin; DrexelUniversity College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

199 Cyclohexanone Is Present in Peritoneal Dialysate andContinuous Renal Replacement Therapy SystemsJoshua King, Judit Gordon-Cappitelli, Lakshmi Santhanam,Artin Shoukas, Derek Fine; Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, MD, USA

212 Case Report: Cocaine Induced-Acute Interstitial Nephritis:Non-Vasculitis Pulmonary Renal SyndromeSunggeun Lee, Maulik Panchal, Ashok Chaudhari, RogerCarbajal Mendoza, Donald Baumstein; MetropolitanMedical Center, New York Medical College, New York,NY, USA

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226 Eculizumab in the Successful Treatment of PostpartumAtypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome- A Case ReportCraig Mackaness, Frederick Fleszler; Lehigh Valley HealthNetwork, Allentown, PA, USA

229 Disseminated Cryptococcus Associated with AKI in a HIVPatient with Unusual Finding of Kidney InvolvementTalal Mahmood, Youshay Humayun, Muhammad Mataria,Jack R. Lewin, Albert W. Dreisbach, Tibor Fülöp; Universityof Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

231 Acute Renal Cortical Necrosis in Pregnant Patient WithProtein S Deficiency With Complete Renal Recovery- ACase ReportLochana Manandharse1, Nimrit Goraya1,2; 1Texas A&MHealth Science Center; Temple, TX, USA; 2Scott and WhiteMemorial Hospital, Temple, TX, USA

232 Fulminant Multiorgan Failure with Aortic Occlusionand Thrombotic Microangiopathy in Catastrophic Anti-phospholipid SyndromeMichael Mao, YiFan Wu, Carl Cramer, Mary Fidler,Thomas Bower, Qi Qian; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN,USA

235 Antibiotic Impregnated Spacers and HA-AKI- A Retro-spective StudyJagdeep K. Mehr, H. Lester Kirchner, James E Hartle;Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA

236 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Rare Cause of BilateralUreteral ObstructionSwati Mehta1, Kisra Anis2; 1Bronx VA Hospital, Bronx,NY, USA; 2Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

244 Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections(CLABSI) in Dialysis-Dependent Acute Kidney Injury(AKI)Angela K. Muriithi, Kirandeep Khangura, Rizwan Sohail,Amy Williams, Larry M. Baddour, Rodney L. Thompson,LaTonya Hickson; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

252 Calciphylaxsis and Superimposed InfectionsAmritpal Nat, Wajihuddin Syed, Amitpal Nat, Viren Kaul,Musa Njeru, Dinesh Subedi; SUNY Upstate MedicalUniversity Syracuse, New York, USA

264 Malignant Hypertension Associated with Renal Failure andThrombotic Microangiopathy, Clinical PathologicCorrelationOlorunkemi Oluwole, Oluwaseyi Adejorin, Chike Nzerue,Richmond Akatue, Paisit Paueksakon, Marquetta Faulkner;Meharry & Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA

265 Anemia at Hospital Admission and the Severity of AcuteKidney InjuryOlumuyiwa Omolayo, Jean Holley, William McClellan;Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

266 Dasatinib Associated Acute Renal Failure with Proteinuriaand Reversibility After DiscontinuationRebecca Ong1, Jorge Lamarche2, Craig Courville2, AlfredoPeguero2; 1University of South Florida; 2James A. HaleyVAH, Tampa, FL, USA

283 Erlotinib Delays Recovery from Acute Tubular NecrosisAnyeri Peguero, Cherise Cortese, Nabeel Aslam; MayoClinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL USA

297 Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Following Hematopoietic StemCell Transplant (HSCT): Single Center ExperienceP Cigner 1,2, R Abu-Arja 2, B Vogt 1, R Cunningham 1andR Raina1; 1Pediatric Nephrology; 2Pediatric Blood andMarrow Transplant Program, Rainbow Babies and Chil-dren’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University Schoolof Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA



299 Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Respiratory Failure fromInfluenza on Combined ECMO and CRRTVinayak Ramanath, Keith Wille, Enrique Diaz-Guzman,Ashita Tolwani; University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL,USA

308 Parvovirus-Induced Lupus Glomerulonephritis: A CaseReportSalah Sabbagh, Narendranath Epperla, Deepa Bassi,Jerry Goldberg, Rosemary Nwoko; Marshfield Clinic,Marshfield, WI, USA

309 Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Causing Acute Kidney Injurywithout Anatomic ObstructionSalah Sabbagh, Narendranath Epperla, Rosemary Nwoko;Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA

311 Lactic Acidosis in Association with Gastric Carcinoma e ACase ReportSami Safadi, Christopher D. Janish, Qi Qian; Mayo Clinic,Rochester, MN, USA

314 Fanconi SyndromeMaheep Singh Sangha, Karla Crawford, Arun Kuruvila;Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

320 Acute Kidney Injury from an Unusual PoisonArjun Sekar, Subhash Paudel, Ashish Verma, SivaPadmanabhan Sivakumar; Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester,MA, USA

340 Everything That Looks and Behaves Like Amyloid Mightnot be AmyloidManisha Singh, Neriman Gokden, Shree Sharma; Univer-sity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR,USA

362 Pemetrexed Disodium Induced Nephrogenic DiabetesInsipidusTariq, Khurram, Salahuddain, Muhammad, James, Leighton;University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

373 Is Celecoxib Nephrotoxic? A Meta-Analysis of Observa-tional StudiesPatompong Ungprasert, Napat Leeaphorn, PongsathornKue-A-Pai; Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY,USA

374 A Fatal and Atypical Case of PTU Induced CrescentericGlomerulonephritisHakim Uqdah, Talal Khan, Francis Luk, Laura Panarey,Ahmed Abdulrahman, Hasan Arif, Sandeep Aggarwal;Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA,USA

380 Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in an OrthopedicPopulation in a Community HospitalMyriam Vela-Ortiz, Elnaz Rakhshan, Mohammad UmarFarooq, Sukhminder Singh Richard Snyder; EastonHospital, Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology,Easton, PA, USA

388 Dyspnea in a Patient with Enlarged KidneysMahdi Yazdany1, Arthur Cohen2, Russell Brynes3,1Raimund Hirschberg, 1Sharon G Adler; 1Harbor UCLA,Torrance, CA, USA; 2University of North Caroline, Wake-forest, NC, USA; 3Keck School of Medicine, Torrance, CA,USA

392 Resolution of AKI with Anakinra in Adult OnsetStill’s Disease and Secondary HemophagocyticLymphohistiocytosisChad Zarse, Tehniat Haider, Neetu Mahendraker, NavidEzra, Stephen Wolverton, Carrie Phillips, Michael Blakley,Mary Jacobs, Richard Hellman; Indiana University Schoolof Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA


CKD/ESRD: ANEMIA19 Reticulocyte Hemogobin Equivalent Levels in Pediatric

CKD PatientsHala Al Moaigel, Nick Borrowman, Elaine Leung, JanuzFeber, Anne Tsampalieros; Children’s Hospital of EasternOntario, Ottawa, ON, Canada

95 PASCO I: A 1-Year Long Post-Registration Safety Study onBiosimilar Epoetin Zeta Across Germany, Spain, Italy, AndThe United KingdomFrank Dellanna1, Richard Fluck2, Gerhard Lonnemann3,Clarissa Wild4, Andreas Iwanowitsch4, Paul Audhya5, RenéMeißner6, Caty Ebel Bitoun7; 1Gemeinschaftspraxis Karl-strasse, Düsseldorf, Germany; 2Royal Derby Hospital,Derbyshire, United Kingdom; 3Eickenhof Outpatient Clinicof Nephrology/Hemodialysis, Langenhagen, Germany;4STADA Arzneimittel AG, Bad Vilbel, Germany; 5Hospira,Inc, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA; 6Hospira DeutschlandGmbH, München, Germany; 7Hospira UK Limited, War-wickshire, UK

131 Iron Sequestration Syndrome in CKD-HD Patients:Triferic� Bypasses the Re Block and Reduces ESA UseAjay Gupta, Vivian Lin, Carrie Guss, Raymond D. Pratt;Rockwell Medical, Wixom, MI, USA

137 Triferic� Has a Safety Profile Similar to Placebo: AnIntegrated Safety Analysis of Phase 2 and 3 StudiesCarrie Guss, Vivian Lin, Raymond D. Pratt, Ajay Gupta;Rockwell Medical, Wixom, MI, USA

138 A Case-Crossover Study of Hemoglobin Values and Utili-zation and Cost Outcomes Among ESRD PatientsKael Haig, Greg Grillo, Wade Bannister; Optum, GoldenValley, MN, USA

140 Effect of Ultrapure Dialysate on Erythropoeitin Dose andAlbumin Level in Hemodialysis PatientsTamim Hamdi, Lenar Yessayan, Jerry Yee, Ghassan Ban-dak, Vivek Soi; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA

153 Evaluation of a Pharmacy Managed ESA PrescribingProtocol in the Inpatient SettingJoanna Q. Hudson, and Chris K. Finch; The University ofTennessee Department of Clinical Pharmacy and MethodistUniversity Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

192 Head-To-Head Comparison of Safety Profiles of VariousIntravenous Iron Agents in CKD PatientsS. Khan1,2, A. Kallam1,2, D. Brignac2 and N. R.Dossabhoy1,2; 1Nephrology, LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA,United States; 2Medicine, VA Medical Center, Shreveport,LA, USA

207 Tolerability and Convenience of Ferumoxytol (Feraheme�)in Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case SeriesRuchi Kumra, Melissa Lan, Stephanie Ong, Allan Cheng,Gary Wong; Toronto General Hospital, University HealthNetwork, Toronto, ON, Canada

208 Cost Efficiency Before and After Initiation of BundleTherapy in ESRD PatientsRachel Lacy1, Kamran Karimi1, Sreesh Iyengar1, BijuMathew1, Puneet Dhaliwal2, Rasheed Oladipo2, ReynaldoTan1; 1Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA;2St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada,West Indies

234 Erythropoeitin and Iron Control in Hemodialysis Patients byAdvanced Practitioners Improves Anemia ControlKathryn McComb, Cassie Kolstad, R. Allan Jhagroo;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

245 Cost of Erythropoesis Stimulating Agent (ESA) to AvoidTransfusions (TRFN) in Patient with CKD

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Anubha Mutneja, Daniel Coyne; Washington University,St Louis, MO, USA

280 Reduction of Transfusions in Dialysis Patients TakingEpoetin Alfa in a Placebo-Controlled Randomized ClinicalTrialGrace S. Park, Allan Pollock, Maple Fung; Amgen, Inc.,Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

284 Patterns of Anemia Management in Patients UndergoingPeritoneal DialysisYi Peng,1 Allyson Kats,1 David T. Gilbertson,1 DeborahKim,2 Keri L. Monda,2 James B. Wetmore,1 Brian D.Bradbury,2 Allan J. Collins1; 1Chronic Disease ResearchGroup, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 2Amgen, Inc, ThousandOaks, CA, USA

289 Triferic� Maintains Hemoglobin in All Subgroups ofPatients: Integrated Cruise Study ResultsRaymond D. Pratt, Vivian Lin, Carrie Guss, Ajay Gupta;Rockwell Medical, Wixom, MI, USA

318 Reduction in ESA Requirement with Oral Ascorbic Acid inHemodialysis Patients with Functional Iron DeficiencyAnil Kumar Saxena, Chandra M. Jha, Ahmad Chaaban,Al-Madani K. Ayman, Samara Abouchacra, Dastoor D.Hormazdiar; 1Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United ArabEmirates; 2Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

334 Oral Ferric Citrate (FC) Eliminates the Need for Intravenous(IV) Iron in Dialysis PatientsM Sika1, S Kabani1, M Chen2, J Dwyer1, J Lewis1,R Niecestro3, M Koury1; 1The Collaborative Study Group,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; 2TCM GroupsInc., Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA; 3Independent Consultant,Pocono Pines, PA, USA

335 Higher Serum Phosphorus and Risk of Anemia in a NonCKD PopulationJohn J. Sim, Amy I. Liu, Connie Rhee, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, LosAngeles, CA, USA

344 Interim Analysis of ACE-011-REN-001: The First 28-DayDose Cycle of Low and Medium Starting Doses of Sota-tercept Compared to Placebo for Correction of Anemia inHemodialysis SubjectsMohamed El-Shahawy1, James Cotton2, Jeffrey Kaupke3,Thomas D. Wooldridge4, Hem N. Singh5, William T.Smith5; 1Academic Medical Research Institute, LosAngeles, CA, USA; 2Tyler Nephrology Associates PC,Tyler, TX, USA; 3Nephrology Specialist Medical Group,Orange, CA, USA; 4Nephrology & Hypertension Asso-ciates LTD, Tupelo, MS, USA; 5Celgene Corporation,Warren, NJ, USA

391 Trends in Anemia Management in Small Dialysis Organi-zations (SDOs) During 2011Susan Yue, Grace Park, Anne Beaubrun, Kurt Olson;Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

CKD/ESRD: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE26 High Output Cardiac Failure Due to Large AV Fistula

Deepa Amberker, Talal Khan, Azka Arif, Karthik Ranganna,Alden Doyle; Drexel University College of Medicine,Philadelphia, PA, USA

49 Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Non-Valvular AtrialFibrillation: Extending the Utility of R2CHADS2 to Patientswith Advanced Renal FailureJosef Bautista, Archie Bella, Ashok Chaudhari, GeraldPekler, Donald Baumstein, Katherine J. Sapra, Roger Car-bajal; Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

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97 Glomerular Features of Cardio-Renal Syndrome, a CaseControlled StudyJanice Desir, Sumeyye Calp Inal, Michal Melamed, JamesPullman, Ladan Golestaneh; Albert Einstein College ofMedicine/Montefiore, Bronx, NY, USA

103 Examining the Robustness of Cardiovascular Mortality inthe Obesity Paradox: A Marginal Structural Model AnalysisMegha Doshi1; Elani Streja1; Connie M. Rhee1; Wei-LingLau1; Csaba P. Kovesdy2; Steven Brunelli,3 KamyarKalantar-Zadeh1; 1Harold Simmons Center, UC Irvine,Orange, CA, USA; 2Nephrology, Univ. of Tennessee,Memphis, TN, USA; 3DaVita Clinical Research, Denver,CO, USA

152 Renal Insufficiency and Diastolic DysfunctionTamer Hudali, Sangeeta Mutnuri, Adnan Khan, RoozbehSharif, Van Hoang, Mohammad A Morsy, Wissam Khalife;University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galves-ton, TX, USA

203 Association of Troponin I and NT-PRO-BNP with Outpa-tient Sudden Cardiac Death in Hemodialysis PatientsRachel Kruzan1, Rulan Parekh2, Charles Herzog3, NeilPowe4, Josef Coresh1, Tariq Shafi1; 1Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, MD; 2University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, USA; 3University of Toronto, Toronto,Canada; 4University of California, San Francisco, CA,USA

241 The Clinical Significance of Morphogenetic ProteinsFGF-23 and Klotho in Serum as the Early DiagnosticMarkers of Chronic Kidney Damage and to Assess theCardio-Vascular Risk in Patients with CKDMilovanova L.Y, Plotnikova A.A, Kryukova D.V., Milova-nov Y.S, Moiseev S.V, Kozlovskaya L.V, Mukhin N.A; FirstMoscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

270 Variability in Dialysate Sodium Concentration and its Effecton Serum Sodium LevelsAlexander Osei-Bonsu, Vanya Grover, Adebayo Adewale,Chelsea Estrada, Mersema Abate, Troy Dixon, Nand K.Wadhwa, Leonard A. Arbeit; Division of Nephrology,SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, NY, USA

329 Use and Effectiveness of Renin-Angiotensin SystemBlockers in Patients Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis in theUnited StatesJenny I. Shen, Maria E. Montez-Rath, Wolfgang C.Winkelmayer; Stanford University School of Medicine, PaloAlto, CA, USA

368 Investigating Pulmonary Hypertension in Dialysis PatientsUsing Right Heart CatherizationsBrittany Thomas, M.T. Sarmini, R.E. Patzer, Janice Lea;Emory University Renal Division, Atlanta, GA, USA

CKD/ESRD: MINERAL METABOLISMAND KIDNEY STONES

6 Encrusted CystitisBernice Acevedo, Sheyla Zelaya, Ricardo Correa, SilviaCuadra, Fernando Calmet, Mellany Castillo; University ofMiami, Miami FL

21 Hypomagnesemia in Hemodialysis Patients: Role of LowMagnesium Dialysate and Proton Pump InhibitorsMohamad Alhosaini, James S. Walter, Sanjay Singh, RobertS. Dieter, Andy Hsieh, David J. Leehey; Departments ofMedicine and Research, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans AffairsHospital, Hines, IL, USA

82 Increasing Fracture Rates in Elderly Hemodialysis (HD) andPeritoneal Dialysis (PD) Patients



Shailaja Chidella1, Anna T. Mathew1, Lisa Rosen1, AzzourHazzan1, Kenar Jhaveri1, John Wagner1, Geoffrey A.Block2, Steven Fishbane1; 1Hofstra University NSLIJSchool of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, USA; 2DenverNephrology, Denver, CO, USA

86 Use of PTH to Lower Phosphorus and FGF23 in CKDMarta Christov, Braden Corbin, Akira Maeda, Thomas J.Gardella, Harald Jüppner; Endocrine Unit, MassachusettsGeneral Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

90 Randomized Multicenter Trial of Paricalcitol Versus Calci-triol for Treatment of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism(SHPT) in Stage 3 and 4 CKDDaniel Coyne1, Seth Goldberg1, Mark Faber2, CybeleGhossein3, Stuart Sprague4; 1Washington University,St Louis, MO, 2Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit MI, 3North-western University, Chicago IL, and 4Northshore UniversityHealth System, Evanston IL, USA

93 Comparing Definitions of “Clinically Meaningful” CKD-MBDMark Danese1, Kimberly Lowe2, Marc Halperin1, Thy Do2,Brian Bradbury2, Geoff Block3; 1Outcomes Insights, West-lake Village, CA, USA; 2Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA,USA; 3Denver Nephrology, Denver, CO, USA

112 Targeted Parathyroid Gland Reduction and Long-TermMetabolic Control of Tertiary HyperparathyroidismAbdeen Farah-Musa1, David R. Clarke1, Kamel A.Gharaibeh1, Mihály Tapolyai.2, Éva Csongrádi1,3, Karen T.Pitman4, Tibor Fülöp1; 1School of Medicine, University ofMississippi, Jackson, MS, USA; 2WJB Dorn VA MedicalCenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA;3Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, Gilbert, AZ, USA;4Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debre-cen, Debrecen, Hungary

160 Parathyroidectomy: What Are the Risks and Benefits?Areef Ishani1, Jiannong Liu1, James Wetmore1, KimberlyLowe2, Thy Do2, Brian Bradbury2, Geoff Block3, AllanCollins1; 1Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis,MN, USA; 2Amgen, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA;3Denver Nephrologists PC, Denver, CO, USA

175 An Unusual Abdominal Film in a Hemodialysis PatientJennifer Kam1, Vikram Doraiswamy2, Carlos Palant3,Ramasamy Nathan2; 1The George Washington University,Washington, DC, USA; Seton Hall University, SouthOrange, NJ, USA; 3VA Medical Center, Washington, DC,USA

189 Real-World Dose Equivalency and Cost Comparisons ofConversions Between Sevelamer Hydrochloride/Carbonateand Lanthanum Carbonate MonotherapiesMichael Keith1, Scott Sibbel2, J Brian Copley1, RosamundWilson3, Steve Brunelli2, 1Shire, Wayne, PA, USA; 2DaVitaClinical Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 3Spica Consul-tants, Marlborough, UK

253 Effect of Oxalobacter formigenes Colonization on UrinaryOxalate ExcretionLama Nazzal1, Nora Henderson1, John Asplin2, Fritz Fran-cois1, Guillermo Perez Perez1, David S. Goldfarb1, Martin J.Blaser1; 1NYULMC, New York, NY, USA; 2LitholinkCorp., Chicago, IL, USA

332 A Clinical Reminder for Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineraland Bone DisorderL. Shondel, L. Simbartl, C. Thakar; Cincinnati VA MedicalCenter, Cincinnati, OH, USA

346 Do Multiple Ureteroscopies Alter Long Term RenalFunction? A Study Using Estimated Glomerular FiltrationRate


Brian C Sninsky, Stephen Y Nakada, R Allan Jhagroo;University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI,USA

367 Value of In-Patient PTH Levels in Hospitalized ESRDPatientsSampath Thiruveedi, Robert L Benz, Aqeel Siddiqui, Ghu-lam Akbar; Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA,USA

378 Improvement of Calciphylaxis After Intravenous Pamidro-nate Therapy in Patients with ESRDN. Varothai, E. Sarac; St. Elizabeth Health Center,Youngstown, OH, USA

384 Characteristics Associated with Parathyroidectomy inMedicare Dialysis PatientsJames Wetmore1, Jiannong Liu1, Kimberly Lowe2, AreefIshani1, Thy Do2, Brian Bradbury2, Geoff Block3, AllanCollins1; 1Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis,MN, USA; 2Amgen, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA;3Denver Nephrologists PC, Denver, CO, USA

CKD/ESRD: PREVALENCE, PROGRESSION,PREPARATION FOR DIALYSIS

1 PCP’S Familiarity, Beliefs, and Perceived Barriers to CKDGuidelinesKhaled Abdel-Kader1, Raquel Greer2, L. Ebony Boulware2,Mark Unruh3; 1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,USA; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA;3University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

22 Disparities in Currently Recommended eGFR CalculationMethodologiesAmmar Almakkee, Jorge Lamarche, Alfredo Peguero, CraigCourville; Veterans Affairs Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

48 Tracking Progress Towards Achieving Healthy People (HP)2020 Objectives for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)Tanushree Banerjee1, Lauren Davidson1, Diane Steffick2,Rajiv Saran2, Nilka Burrows3, Sharon Saydah3, Neil Powe1,for the CDC CKD Surveillance Team; 1 University ofCalifornia, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA;2University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and CostCenter, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 3 Centers for Disease Controland Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA

50 Hemodialysis Is Associated with a Decreased Risk ofStroke in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Advanced KidneyDiseaseJosef Bautista, Ahmed Alansari, Roger Carbajal, AshokChaudhari, Donald Baumstein; Metropolitan HospitalCenter-New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

55 Characteristics, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs of Dialysisin Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic KidneyDisease (ADPKD)Christopher M Blanchette1,2, Steven Brunelli3, AmiClaxton3, Karthik Ramakrishna3, Debosree Roy2, SandroRossetti1, Benjamin Gutierrez1; 1Otsuka America Pharma-ceutical, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA; 2University of NorthCarolina, Charlotte, NC, USA; 3DaVita Clinical Research,Minneapolis, MN, USA

60 Comparison of Prevalence and Risk Factors for LowGlomerular Filtration Rate in U.S. and Korean AdultsJL Bragg-Gresham1, SW Han2, H Morgenstern1, A Tilea1,JH Yi2, YS Ko2, ME Pavkov3, DE Williams3, T Banerjee4,N Powe4, R Saran1; 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,USA; 2HanyangUniversity, Seoul,Korea; 3Centers forDiseaseControl and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; 4University ofCalifornia, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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146 International Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease: Review ofthe Literature and Online Data SystemsElizabeth Hedgeman1,4, Loren Lipworth2, Kimberly Lowe3,Rajiv Saran1, Thy Do3, Jon Fryzek4; 1University ofMichigan,Ann Arbor, MI; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;3Amgen, Inc. Seattle, WA; 4EpidStat Institute, Ann Arbor,MI, USA

157 Risk Stratification Based on eGFR and Albuminuria inan Existing CKD populationeImplications for Funding inOntarioSassan Ghazan-Shahi, Sandra Belanger, M. Khaled Sham-seddin, Sarah Aloudat, Christine White, Eduard Iliescu;Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

172 High Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients WhoAre Super-Users of Health ResourcesClaudine Jurkovitz, Zugui Zhang, James Bowen, SimoneLavin, Eric Jackson, Heather Bittner-Fagan; Value Institute,Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, USA

186 Discrepancy Between Reported Causes of ESRD and RenalPathologyRamandeep Kaur, Esho Georges, Fang Wu, Nilesh Patel,Andres Serrano; Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

211 Intravenous (IV) Iron Intensifies Oxidative Stress andAccelerates CKD Progression in Experimental AnimalsWei Ling Lau, Shuman Liu, Sohrab Nazertehrani, SogolPahlevan, Mahyar Khazaeli, Seyed Farzaneh, Nosratola D.Vaziri; Division of Nephrology, University of California-Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

220 Effect of Governmental Policy on Dialysis Modality: ACohort Study From Taiwan Renal Registry Data SystemYen-Chung Lin, Tzen-Wen Chen, Hsi-Hsien Chen,Mai-Szu Wul; Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei,Taiwan

271 Characteristics of Insured and Uninsured Incident ESRDPatientsNilgun Ozturk, William Torres, Balavenkatesh Kanna,Isaiarasi Gnanasekaran; Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx,NY, USA

307 Telenephrology: A Model of Patient Centered CareRajeev Rohatgi1, Denise Gentile2, Rosemarie Cancel-Santiago1, Retha Gharitza, John Rindt2, James Post1, JohnCijiang He1, Joanne Malina2, and Erik Langhoff1; 1James J.Peters VAMC, Bronx, NY, USA; Hudson Valley VAMC,Castle Point, NY, USA

345 Kidney Care Program in an Urban Managed Care SettingPrepares CKD Patients for ESRDT Smith-Jules, L Prlesi, J Manganelli, H Chung, A Meara,S Felleman, C Bauer; Montefiore Care Management Orga-nization, Yonkers, NY, USA

359 Association Between Herbal and Dietary Supplement Useand the Progression of Chronic Kidney DiseaseMayuree Tangkiatkumjai, Helen Boardman, KearkiatPraditpornsilpa, Dawn-Marie Walker; University of Not-tingham, Nottingham, UK and Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok, Thailand

363 Empowering Patients on Choices for Renal ReplacementTherapy (EPOCH-RRT): Incorporating Patient-CenteredOutcomes in Decision Making on Dialysis ModalityFrancesca Tentori1, Erica Perry2, Jill Cole3, Leslie Paulson1,Chris Cobb1, Laurie Lachance2, Martha Quinn2, AngieFagerlin2, Julie Wright-Nunes2, Jonathan Segal2, Jerry Yee3,Jennifer Martin4, Diana Clynes5, Bruce Robinson1; 1ArborResearch Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI;2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI; 3Henry FordHealth Systems, Detroit MI; 4National Kidney Foundation

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(NKF), New York NY; 5American Association of KidneyPatients (AAKP), Tampa FL USA

CKD/ESRD: VASCULAR ACCESS10 Barriers to Timely Dialysis Access Creation: South Texas

University Health System ExperienceOlumayowa Aderinto, Shweta Bansal; University of TexasHealth Science Centre at San Antonio, San Antonia, TX,USA

27 Arteriovenous Graft Infection from Cat ExposureAnkit Anand1, Jaya Kala2, Natthavat Tanphaichitr1; 1AkronGeneral Medical Center, North East Ohio Medical Univer-sity, OH, USA; 2University of Texas Health Science Centerat Houston, TX, USA

29 Chlorhexidine-Impregnated Transparent Catheter Dressing(TEGA CHG) Decreases the Rate of Catheter-RelatedBloodstream Infections in an Outpatient Hemodialysis UnitIbironke Apata, James Bailey, John Hanfelt, Vandana DuaNiyyar; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA,USA

32 Unilateral Pleural Effusion in a Patient with Central VenousStenosis Made Worse Following Correction of Arteriove-nous Fistula Outflow StenosisJose Luis Aranez, James Farry; State University ofNew York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

53 Superior Vena Cava Stenosis with Proximal EsophagealVarices: A Rare Hemodialysis Catheter Related ComplicationDron Bhandari, Mala Sachdeva; Hofstra North Shore-LIJSchool of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, USA

115 Outcomes of Angioplasty Versus Stent Placement in Dial-ysis Access Stenosis: A Meta-AnalysisNing Fu, Emily Joachim, Alexander S. Yevzlin, Jung-ImShin, Brad C. Astor, Micah R. Chan; University ofWisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison,WI, USA

129 Safety of Using Arteriovenous Graft or Fistula in PatientsReceiving Continuous Renal Replacement TherapyVanya Grover, Adebayo Adewale, Mary Longobucco, NandK. Wadhwa; Division of Nephrology, SUNY, Stony Brook,NY, USA

144 A Report of Arterio-Venous Access Created in the Arm withIpsilateral Central Venous Occlusive Disease in Hemodial-ysis PatientseCase SeriesMohammed Mahdi Althaf, Ghassan AlAbsi, Safa MansourAlSaffar, Osman I. AlFurayh, Naveed Haq; King FaisalSpecialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, SaudiArabia

181 Reactive Angioendotheliomatosis Secondary to an UpperArm Arteriovenous FistulaYvonne Kassis, Fahad Saeed; Cleveland Clinic Foundation,Cleveland, OH, USA

222 Patency and Complications of Translumbar DialysisCathetersFanna Liu, Robert Heyka, Susana Arrigain, Stacy Bennett,Gordon McLennan, Sankar D Navaneethan; Radiology andNephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

225 Arteriovenous Fistula Complications Are Lower AmongPatients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic KidneyDiseaseShuaike Ma, Sylvie Mrug, Michael Allon, Michal Mrug;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL,USA

243 Evaluation of Hemodialysis Central Venous CatheterDysfunction Protocol



Paula Mossop, Jo-Anne Wilson, Niall Sheehy, JeanetteSquires, David Hirsch, Steven Soroka; Capital DistrictHealth Authority, Queen Elizabeth II, Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada

249 Vascular Access for Hemodialysis: What’s Left WhenYou’re Running Out of Options?Purna Bindu Nandigam, Talal A Khan, Hasan Arif; DrexelUniversity College of Medicine-Division of Nephrology,Philadelphia, PA, USA

281 Bedside Ultrasonography for Difficult AV FistulaCannulationRoshan Patel, Ellena Linden, Maritza Brown, Aaron Stern,Bhatti Saad; Elmhurst Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine,New York, NY, USA

377 Role of Endothelial and Platelet-Derived Microparticles inHemodialysis Access ComplicationsHelga Vamenta-Morris, Angie Nishio-Lucar, ChristineRudy, Kambiz Kalantari, Uta Erdbruegger; University ofVirginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA

397 Barriers to “Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative”, OneCenter ExperienceSijie Zheng, Juan Ordonez; The Permanente Medical Group,Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA, USA

398 Sepsis Due to Unknown Species of Mycobacteria in Hemo-dialysis Patient with Subcalvian Hemodialysis CatheterHassan Ziud, Noel Blagg, Mohammad Moizuddin; Berk-shire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, USA

CKD/ESRD: OTHER8 Recurrent Angioedema in a Patient with Normal Levels of

C4, C1 Inhibitor and Lupus NephritisBernice Acevedo, Camilo Gomez, Juan Duque, Jair Munoz-Mendoza; University of Miami, FL, USA

11 Unusual Case of Necrotising FacitisOlufemi Aduroja1, Danna Lorenzetti2, Zeenat Bhat2;1Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; 2DetriotMedical Center, Detroit, MI, USA

15 Body Mass Index and Mortality In Kidney TransplantRecipients: A Meta-AnalysisSeyed-Foad Ahmadi, Golara Zahmatkesh, Elani Streja,Miklos Z. Molnar, Connie M. Rhee, Shah Steiner, Daniel L.Gillen, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Harold Simmons Center,UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA

23 Variables and Frequency of Falls in Hemodialysis PatientsAhmed Mdallal, M. Khaled Shamseddin, Eduard Iliescu,Sarah Aloudat; Nephrology Division, Queen’s University,Kingston, Ontario, Canada

38 Metacarpophalangeal Joint Tumoral Calcinosis in ESRD inan Undocumented Immigrant: A Case ReportMaihemuti Axiyan, Gbolahan Olumide, AkinbobuyiOlufunke, Bashir Khalid; Morehouse School of Medicine,Atlanta, Georgia, USA

41 Malakoplakia: A Diagnosis That Should Not Been Missed-A Case ReportMarrouf Azar1,2, Roveena Goveas1,2, Noreen Rossi1,3, PaulZ Kissner1,2, Dongping Shi1,2; 1Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Detroit MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA; 3John D. Dingell VA MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA

47 Free Indoxyl Sulfate (Indican) Levels Are Not Associatedwith Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) in Hemodialysis (HD)PatientsTanushree Banerjee1, Timothy Meyer2, Tariq Shafi3, MichalMelamed4, Thomas Hostetter5, Rulan Parekh6, Neil Powe1;


1University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA;2Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; 3John HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA 5Case Western ReserveUniversity, Cleveland, OH, USA; 6University of Toronto,Toronto, Canada

58 Baseline Stability Model Improves Dialysis Patient MarkersLamya Boujelbane, Muhammad Chaudhry, MohsenElramah, R. Allan Jhagroo; University of Wisconsin,Madison WI, USA

63 Economic Impact of Ferric Citrate (FC) Versus Standard ofCare for Hemodialysis PatientsSteven Brunelli1, Scott Sibbel1, Amit Sharma2, AndrewHsieh2; 1DaVita Clinical Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA;2Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc, New York, NY, USA

65 Are Current CDC Guidelines for Hepatitis B Testing inPatients with ESRD Adequate?Shivakanth Burugu, Kisra Anis; Jacobi Medical Center,Bronx, NY, USA

70 Continuation or Withdrawal of Dialysis in Patients WhoDeveloped Vegetative State (VS): An Ethical, Legal andProfessional DilemmaChaaban A, Ahmed M, Budruddin M, Bernieh B, Abou-chacra S, Boobes Y, El Jack H, Gebran N, Saxena A,Madani A; Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

77 Association Between Lower Estimated Glomerular FiltrationRate (GFR) and Incident Cancer: A Report From the Anti-hypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to PreventHeart Attack Trial (ALLHAT)Chen D1, Pressel S2, Davis B2, Dobre M1, Muntner P2,Sarnak M3, Simpson L2, Whelton P5, Wright JT5

Rahman M5; 1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,OH, USA; 2University of Texas Health Science Center atHouston, Houston, TX, USA; 3University of Alabamaat Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 4Tufts MedicalCenter, Boston, MA, USA; 5Tulane University School ofPublic Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA,USA

84 Assessing Medication Labeling Literacy in HemodialysisPatients Using The Medlit ToolSooMin Cho, Wendy Parker, Bradley Teoh, Amy Pai, KatieCardone; Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences,Albany, NY, USA

100 Hyperthyroidism Causing Unusual Hemodynamic Insta-bility in a Hemodialysis PatientHarkanwal Dhillon1,2, Yahya Osman Malik1; DetroitMedical Center and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI,USA

108 Automated Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Clinical Deci-sion Support (CDS) Is Associated with Improvement inGuideline-Recommended CKD MonitoringJ Ennis1, D Gillen2, A Rubenstein3, ME Brecher4,E Worcester5, J Asplin1, F Coe5; 1LabCorp�, Chicago, IL,USA; 2University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA;3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;4LabCorp�, Burlington, NC, USA; 5Univerisity of Chicago,Chicago, IL, USA

123 Comorbidity Burden and Medication Use in Stage 4-5 CKDPatientsDavid T. Gilbertson, Yi Peng, Scott Jackson, Allan J.Collins; Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis,MN, USA

139 Treatment of Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) by Dis-continuing Iron Supplementation in an End Stage RenalDisease Patient

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Shabnum Haleem, Ami M. Patel; Drexel University Collegeof Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

142 Hemodialysis Ultrafiltration Rate: Clinical Correlations andRisk of HospitalizationElhami Hannan, José Navarrete; Emory University, RenalDivision, Atlanta, GA, USA

143 Pulmonary Hypertension and Risk of Intra-DialyticHypotensionElhami Hannan, Brittany Thomas, Janice Lea, JoséNavarrete; Emory University, Renal Division, Atlanta, GA,USA

145 Acquired Reactive Perforating Dermatosis-A Rare SkinManifestation in End Stage Renal DiseaseHayas Haseer-Koya, Musa Njeru, Dona Varghese, Christo-pher Curtiss, Apurv Khanna; Upstate Medical University,Syracuse, NY, USA

150 Trends in ESRD PPS Case-Mix Prevalence in the MedicareFee-For-Service Population 2000-2008Christopher S Hollenbeak,1 Robert J Rubin,2 SpirosTzivelekis,3 Mark Stephens4; 1Pennsylvania State UniversityCollege of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA; 2GeorgetownUniversity School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA;3Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA; 4Prima HealthAnalytics, Boston, MA, USA

151 Controlling Antibiotic Dosing Errors in Patients withImpaired Renal Function Using An EMR AlertTamer Hudali, Ahmad Almomani, Leah Low, MeredithMasel; University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston,Galveston, TX, USA

162 Recurrent Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy After Renaland Autologous Stem Cell TransplantationI Jaffer-Sathick, ME Fidler, MQ Lacy, N Leung; MayoClinic, Rochester, MN, USA

163 A Case of Advanced CKD with “Normal Serum Creatinineand eGFR”Faisal Jamal, Melvin E Laski; Texas Tech University HealthSciences Center, Lubbock, Tx, USA

169 Evaluation of Air Micro Bubbles in Dialysis Systems inVitroPer Jonsson1, Ulf Forsberg2, Bernd Stegmayr1; 1UmeåUniversity Department of Medicine and Public Health,Umeå, Sweden; 2Skellefteå Lasarett, Skellefteå, Sweden

183 Life Threatening Hypocalcemia After a Single Dose ofDenosumab in Advanced Kidney DiseaseSwapna Katipally, Paras Dedhia, Mahmoud El-Khatib,Charuhas Thakar; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH,USA

197 Effect of Transition From Acetate to Citrate Based AcidBath in Hemodialysis PatientsTalal Khan1, Mohammad Syed1, Farhan Zahid1, NavneetKaur1, Helen Elivera3, Jean Lee2, Ziauddin Ahmed1, EllieKelepouris1, Sandeep Aggarwal1; 1Drexel UniversityCollege of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Philadelphia,PA, USA; 2Temple University School of Medicine, Phila-delphia, PA, USA; 3Dialysis Clinic, Inc., Philadelphia, PA,USA

200 Quality Improvement for Inpatient HemodialysisJatinder Kohli, Vi-Anne Antrum, Mandip Panesar; Univer-sity at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

215 Type A Reaction to New Synthetic Noncellulose MembraneDialyzerSunggeun Lee, Ashok Chaudhari, Roger Carbajal Mendoza,Donald Baumstein. Metropolitan Medical Center, New YorkMedical College, New York, NY, USA

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218 No Difference in Interdialytic Weight Gain with SodiumModeling in Chronic Hemodialysis PatientsRapeepat Lekkham, David Widmyer, Imara Dissanakaye,Rasib Raja; Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia,PA, USA

224 IGG4-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis Masquerading asChronic Kidney DiseaseNhan Luu, Darlene Vigil, Konstantin N. Konstantinov,Antonios H. Tzamaloukas, and Yijuan Sun; Departmentof Medicine, Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Centerand University of New Mexico School of Medicine,Albuquerque, NM, USA

233 Initiation of Dialysis Via Slow Low Efficient Dialysis is Safeand Could Reduce Length of HospitalizationMohammad Mataria, Talal Mahmood, Youshay Humayun,Tibor Fülöp; University of Mississippi Medical Center,Jackson, MS, USA

238 Prevalence of Kidney Disease According to Wine Intakein the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(2003-2006)Tapan Mehta1, Pamela Mettler2, Kim McFann1,2, DianaJalal1; 1University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center,Aurora, CO, USA; 2Colorado Biostatistics Consortium andColorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA

251 Physical Activity Amongst Veterans with ESRD: Percep-tions and BarriersTareq Nassar, Lauren Tarbox, Judith Hernandez, Christo-pher Dyer; University of Texas Health Science Center at SanAntonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

256 Compliance and Understanding of MaintenanceHemodialysiseAn International Comparison StudyKana Noshiro1, Yasuhide Nishio2, Kobena Dadzie1, NijalSheth1, Nikolas B. Harbord1, James F. Winchester1; 1BethIsrael Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 2Tokyo TamaMedical Center, Tokyo, Japan

262 Ochrobactrum Anthropi Bacteremia in a HemodialysisPatientNnaemezie Odioemene, Anju Oommen. Emory UniversityHospital, Atlanta, GA, USA

267 Exploring Patient and Provider Beliefs and Perspectives onSelf-Management of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)Stephanie Ong, Heather Beanlands, Eveline Porter, VanitaJassal, Alexander Logan, Judith Miller; University HealthNetwork, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

268 Mobile Self-Management System for CKD Patients:Conceptual Framework and Design PrinciplesStephanie Ong, Vanita Jassal, Emily Seto, Stephanie So,Akib Uddin, Ashleigh Shier, Joseph Cafazzo, EvelinePorter, Judith Miller, Alexander Logan; University HealthNetwork, Toronto, ON, Canada

275 No Improvement in the Incidence of All Types of Fracturesin ESRD Patients Despite at Goal CKDMBD ParametersRamnika Gumber, Mohan Devgun, Mandip Panesar;Department of Internal Medicine, University of Buffalo andBuffalo State University, Buffalo, NY, USA

276 Renin-Secreting Transgenic Mouse Model (RENTAG)Suggests Involvement of the Renin Angiotensin System (RAS)in the Development of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF)Sandra Buitrago2, Ryan Tulowitzki1, Silvi Shah1, CraigJones2, Kenneth Gross2, Mandip Panesar1; 1University atBuffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; 2Roswell Park Cancer Institute,Buffalo, NY, USA

277 Evaluation of the Consumer Assessment of HealthcareProviders and Systems (CAHPS�) In-Center Hemodialysis(ICH) Survey



Carly J. Paoli1, Gavin Taylor-Stokes2, James Piercy2,Matthew Gitlin1, Ron D. Hays3, Robert Wood2; 1Amgen,Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA; 2Adelphi Real World, Inc.,Bollington, UK; 3University of California, Los Angeles, LosAngeles, CA, USA

291 Patient Attitudes and Understanding of Kidney Test ResultsThrough an Online PortalStefanie Puher, William DiFilippo, Maria C. Bermudez,Alex R. Chang, Michael Stoppie, Jamie Green; GeisingerMedical Center, Danville, PA, USA

293 Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS) Versus Uremiain a Patient with End Stage Renal DiseaseAndi Qipo1, Jean DeLorme2, Kisra Anis1, Anjali Acharya1,Naheed Ansari1; Jacobi Medical Center, Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 2Pelham Parkway DialysisUnit, Bronx, NY, USA

294 Hemothorax as a Remote Complication of Kidney BiopsyAndi Qipo1, Tanvi Rege1, Swati Mehta2, Siddhartha Yedla1,Anjali Acharya1; 1Jacobi Medical Center, Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine Bronx, NY, USA; 2James J. PetersVeterans Affairs Hospital, Bronx, NY, USA

295 Recurrent Mesenteric Cyst in a Hemodialysis PatientEbadur Rahman, Moddassar Mahboob, Saud Al Omani,Taqi Kahn; Prince Sultan Medical Military City, Riyadh,Saudi Arabia

301 No Clinically Relevant Changes in Vitamin D Concentra-tions with PA21, A Novel Iron-Based Phosphate Binder,Over 52 WeeksA. Rastogi, A. Covic, J. Floege, M. Ketteler, B. Spinowitz, J.Botha, S. Gaillard, S.M. Sprague; University of California,Los Angeles, CA, USA

304 Association of Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST, SGOT)with All-Cause Mortality in Maintenance HemodialysisPatientsSepideh Rezakhani1, Elani Streja1, Connie M. Rhee1, CsabaP. Kovesdy2, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1; 1Harold SimmonsCenter, UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA; USA;2Division of Nephrology, University of Tennessee, Mem-phis, TN, USA

312 In-Patient Hemodialysis without HeparinS Sahota, R Rodby; Rush University Medical Center(RUMC), Chicago, IL, USA

313 Unrecognized Strongyloides Stercoralis Infection in Hemo-dialysis Patient with Recurrent Diarrhea and RequiringMultiple AdmissionsP Samanta, A Chaudhari, R Carbajal; Metropolitan HospitalCenter, New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

315 Physical Performance in Ambulatory Patients on DialysisErdal Sarac1, Cherry Valino1, Jane L Wetzel2, Jill Jonda2,Caitlinn Glenn2, Suzanne M Giuffre2; 1Northeast OhioMedical University Rootstown, OH, USA; 2YoungstownState University, Youngstown, OH, USA

316 Charateristics of Patients Receiving Twice WeeklyHemodialysisMenaka Sarav, Junine Degraf, Melissa Datu and NeenooKhosla; Dept of Nephrology, NorthShore UniversityHealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA

328 Patients’ Perspectives on Medicine-Taking in Dialysis:Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of QualitativeStudiesJenny I. Shen1, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer1, AllisonTong2,3; 1Stanford University School of Medicine, PaloAlto, CA, USA; 2Sydney School of Public Health, TheUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 3Centre


for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead,Sydney, NSW, Australia

330 Rethinking Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs inSevere Proteinuria Resistant to Conventional TreatmentKarandeep Shergill, Shaifali Sandal, Anirban Bose;University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

331 Relationship Between Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior, andInterdialyticWeight Gain in Veterans onChronic HemodialysisAdvayanand Shirsalkar, Michael Fischer, Swati Batki,Anuradha Wadhwa, Subhash Popli, Elisa Gordon; Hines VAHospital, Hines, IL, USA

336 Reduction in Serum K+ with ZS-9 in CKD Patients withHyperkalemia on RAAS Inhibitors (RAASi)Bhupinder Singh1, Stephen R. Ash2, Philip Lavin3, AlexYang4, Henrik S. Rasmussen5; 1Southwest Clinical ResearchInst., Tempe, AZ, USA; 2IU Health Arnett, Lafayette, IN,USA; 3Boston Biostats. Research Foundation, Framingham,MA, USA; 4Xelay Acumen, Belmont, CA, USA; 5ZSPharma, Coppell, TX, USA

338 ZS-9 Leads to a Rapid and Predictable On-Drug Rate ofDecline in Serum K+ in CKD Patients with Hyperkalemia onRAAS Inhibitors (RAASi)Bhupinder Singh1, Stephen R. Ash2, Philip Lavin3, AlexYang4, Henrik S. Rasmussen5; 1Southwest Clinical ResearchInstitute, Tempe, AZ, USA; 2IU Health Arnett, Lafayette,IN, USA; 3Boston Biostats. Research Foundation, Fra-mingham, MA, USA; 4Xelay Acumen, Belmont, CA, USA;5ZS Pharma, Coppell, TX, USA

339 Intra-Dialysis Fetal Monitoring in 2 Case Series of PregnantHemodialysis (HD) PatientsJasjit Singh, George Coritsidis, Isha Mehta, Leo Mauro;Elmhurst Hospital Center Icahn Mount Sinai School ofMedicine, New York, NY, USA

341 Paget’s Disease and ESRD; Can Alkaline PhosphataseAnswer All Questions?Montish Singla, Roger Carbajal, Donald Baumstein, AshokChaudhari; Metropolitan Hospital Center, New YorkMedical College, New York, NY, USA

342 Uremic Pruritus Leading to Leg AmputationsMontish Singla, Donald Baumstein, Ashok Chaudhari,Roger Carbajal; Metropolitan Hospital Center, New YorkMedical College, New York, NY, USA

347 Concomitant Intravenous Iron Use Drives Changes in IronIndices in a Phase 3 Study of PA21S.M. Sprague, A. Covic, J. Floege, M. Ketteler, B. Spino-witz, S. Gaillard, P. Moneuse, A. Rastogi; North ShoreUniversity Health System University of Chicago PritzkerSchool of Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA

349 Characteristics of Efficient Free-Standing Dialysis Centers inthe US Prior to the PPSMark Stephens,1 Martin Ma,2 Jill McCluskey,2 RonMittelhammer,2 Matthew Gitlin3; 1Prima Health Analytics,Boston, MA, USA; 2Washington State University, Pullman,WA, USA; 3InnoPeritus, Geneva, CH

351 Time Trend of PTH in Maintenance Hemodialysis PatientsElani Streja1; Wei Ling Lau1; Connie M. Rhee1; Csaba P.Kovesdy2; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1; 1Harold SimmonsCenter, UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA;2Division of Nephrology, University of Tennessee, Mem-phis, TN, USA

353 Intradialytic Hypotension and Cognitive OutcomesLily Kristine Sunio, Alexis Dye, Purueshottam Laud, DawnWolfgram; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,USA

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355 Corynebacterium Jeikeium Endocarditis in a HemodialysisPatient with an Arteriovenous Fistula Requiring SurgicalInterventionFahd Syed, Surachit Kumar, Michelle Whittier Krause;University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Division ofNephrology, Little Rock, AR, USA

366 Pyridostigmine for the Treatment of Refractory SevereOrthostatic Hypotension with Supine Hypertension inAdvanced CKDYuvaraj Thangaraj, Hassan Jaded, Edward A. Ross; Divi-sion of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Trans-plantation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

375 Preliminary Examination of Chronic Kidney Disease SharedMedical Appointment OutcomesAmanda Valliant1, Mohsen Elramah1, Alexander S.Yevzlin1, Micah Chan1,3, Henry Young 2; 1Departmentof Medicine, Division of Nephrology; 2Department ofSocial Sciences and Pharmacy; 3University of WisconsinSchool of Medicine and Public Health3, Madison, WI,USA

390 Spironolactone for Hypokalia In CAPD Patients, ARandomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled TrialSomchai Yongsiri, Jiranuch Thammakumpee, Suriya Prong-namchai, Pechngam Tengpraettanakorn, Siriporn Tangjatur-onrasme, Pakaphan Dinchuthai, Rachaneeporn Chueansuwan.Facutly of Medicine, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand

396 Rates of Organism Specific Bacteremia Over 14 YearsRelated to AccessJingjing Zhang, Renee Burr, Beth Piraino; University ofPittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY71 ANG 1-7 Prevents Systemic Hypertension, Attenuates

Oxidative Stress and Kidney Injury In Diabetic AkitaMiceJohn S.D. Chan, Yixuan Shi, Chao-Sheng Lo, Ranjit Padda,Isabelle Chenier, Shao-Ling Zhang; Centre de recherchedu Centre l’hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal(CRCHUM)-Tour Viger, Montréal, QC, Canada

333 Disease Burden of Diabetic Foot Ulcers in End-Stage RenalDisease PatientsScott Sibbel, Mahesh Krishnan, Ami Claxton, StevenBrunelli; DaVita Clinical Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA

ELECTROLYTE AND ACID BASE ABNORMALITIES12 Isolated Paraproteinemia Causing Spurious Hyperphosphatemia

Aakash Aggarwal, Rahul Bhardwaj, Rose Giammarco;SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY, USA

17 Looming ThreatGhulam Akbar1, Ghazi Mirrani1, Naeem Abbas2, GeoffreyTeehan1; 1Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA,USA; 2Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY

35 Hyponatremia Etiology and Tolvaptan: Are We OptimallyTargeting the Mechanism?Ketan Ghate, Neena Jube, Shamim Haqqie, Roy Mathew,Darius Mason, Vishesh Kumar, Arif Asif; Albany MedicalCollege, Albany, NY, USA

42 5-Oxoproline (Pyroglutamic Acid): An Under RecognizedCause of High Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis-A CaseReportMarrouf Azar1,2, Wihib Gebregeorgis1,2; 1Wayne StateUniversity School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; 2DetroitMedical Center, Detroit, MI, USA

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43 An Unusual Case of Shock Caused By Over-The-CounterMagnesium SupplementBadamkhand Baatarkhuu, Raymond Raut, Winston Shih,Panupong Lisawat; Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT, USA

44 Rapid Progression of Acidosis in a Patient Treated withMetforminOana C. Badescu, Donald Baumstein; MetropolitanHospital Center, New York Medical College, New York,NY, USA

59 Acquired Fanconi’s Syndrome: Tenofovir-Related Nephro-toxicity From a Different PerspectiveChristina Bradshaw, Yu Kuei Lin, Nijal Sheth, JonathanMartin; Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

62 Where Is the Potassium Going?Gagandeep Brar, Avanthika Wickramarathne, Lonika Sood.Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA

64 Antifreeze is Not Always Ethylene GlycolShivakanth Burugu, Belinda Jim, Naheed Ansari; AlbertEinstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

80 Lactic Acidosis in Cytokine StormWisit Cheungpasitporn, Stefan F. Cordes, Charat Thong-prayoon, Shihab H. Sugeir, Qi Qian; Mayo Clinic,Rochester, MN, USA

99 Diarrhea Post-Stem Cell Transplant Unmasking IsolatedProximal Tubular Defect by Ifosfamide (IFOS) TherapyHarkanwal Dhillon1,2; Salman Khan1,2; Noreen F. Rossi;1Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA, 2Wayne StateUniversity, Detroit, MI, USA; 3John D. Dingell VA MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA

111 Hyponatremia Management: How Are We Doing?Chelsea Estrada, Vanya Grover, Michael Petry, AdebayoAdewale, David Luftman, Nand K. Wadhwa; Division ofNephrology, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA

117 Iris Associated Hypercalcemia in a Patient with HIVAmarinder Garcha, Joseph Garland, Hesham Shaban,Raphael Cohen, Michael Rudnick; University of Pennsyl-vania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

118 Oncogenic Osteomalacia (OO): Renal Phosphate WastingAssociated with Metastatic Prostate CancerAmarinder Garcha, Jeffrey Berns, Sidney Kobrin; StanleyGoldfarb. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

124 Cisplatin Induced Salt Wasting Acute Tubular Necrosis andFanconi Like SyndromeMayurkumar Gohel, Evan Norfolk; Geisinger MedicalCenter, Danville, PA, USA

130 Rhabdomyolysis After Rapid Correction of SevereHyponatremiaRamnika Gumber1, Silvi Shah2; 1University At Buffalo,Buffalo, NY, USA; 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

134 Severe Postpartum Symptomatic Hyponatremia Due toDDAVPSagar Gupta, Michael Barnes; William Beaumont Hospital,Royal Oak, MI, USA

141 Flaccid Paralysis with Profound Hypophosphatemia:Mystery RevealedP Hanley, B Vogt, Linda Lou, R Cunningham, R Raina;Pediatric Nephrology, Rainbow Babies and Children’sHospital at Case Western Reserve University School ofMedicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

164 Polyuria with Preeclampsia and Argininosuccinic Aciduria-A Unique Clinical PresentationDeepak Jasuja, Robert L Bacallao; Department ofNephrology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indian-apolis, IN, USA



167 Acute on Chronic Hyponatremia Due to Amiodarone InduceHypothyroidism in a Patient with Chronic Syndrome ofInappropariate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)Thanavut Jiansakul, Tamim Naber; Atlantic Care MedicalCenter, Atlantic City, NJ, USA

174 D-Lactic Acidosis Due Clostridial Gas Gangrene in anUncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus (DM) PatientArunpreet Kahlon, Amrita Dhillon, Arundeep Kahlon,Brian Changlai; Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY,USA

194 A Curious Case of Pseudo-HyperkalemiaTalal Khan, Azka Arif, Muhammad Syed, Sandeep Aggar-wal, Hasan Arif; Drexel University College of Medicine,Philadelphia, PA, USA

214 Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome with CryptococcalMeningitis in HIV PatientsSunggeun Lee, Anitsira Collado, Cristina Oana Badescu,Hussein Khan, Ashok Chaudhari, Roger Carbajal Mendoza;Metropolitan Medical Center, New York Medical College,New York, NY, USA

230 Severe Rapid Renal Salt-Wasting in Patient with PresumedInfluenza Vaccine Induced Guillian Barre SyndromeRamya Malchira, Golriz Jafari, Saman Sarani, Chi Pham,Ana Ortiz-Guerrero, Eileen McCann, Solomon Huang;Olive View UCLA, Sylmar, CA, USA

240 Reverse Pseudohyperkalemia: A Challenging DiagnosisAlejandra Mena-Gutierrez, Michelle Krause; Division ofNephrology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,Little Rock, AR, USA

242 A Case Report of Polyuria in a 17-Year Old: When to LookBeyond Psychogenic PolydipsiaM Morello, R Raina, Linda Lou, R Cunningham, T Springel;Pediatric Nephrology, Rainbow Babies and Children’sHospital at Case Western Reserve University School ofMedicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

248 Dyselectrolytemia: Correcting Which Electrolyte is theKey?Purna Bindu Nandigam, Talal A. Khan, Muhammad R.Syed, Azka Arif, Sandeep Aggarwal; Drexel UniversityCollege of Medicine-Division of Nephrology, Philadelphia,PA, USA

255 Bisphosphonate-Refractory Hypercalcemia: Off-Label Useof DenosumabO. Nimkevych, R. Paccione, K Cox Fremin, Z. Soltani;Louisiana State University Health Science Center, NewOrleans, LA, USA

263 Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) withGitelman’s Syndrome (GS): Case Report, Treatment andOutcomesKabir Olaniran, Susan Kim, Usha Venugopal, NeerajKumar; Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx,NY, USA

274 Effects of a Dialysate Solution Containing Acetate on RiskOf Sudden Cardiac DeathJatinder Kohli, Nimalan Vipulananda, Gregory Gudleski,Mandip Panesar; University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

288 Unusual Case of HyponatremiaPriya Prakash, Rishikesh Morey, Savneek Chugh; West-chester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

303 Successfully Treated Calciphylaxis-Two Cases UsingIntravenous Sodium ThiosulfateJoshua L. Rein, Kana Noshiro, Kobena A. Dadzie, Steven J.Gruber, Roxana Sulica, James F. Winchester; Beth IsraelMedical Center, New York, NY, USA


324 Central Diabetic Insipidus Due to Herpes SimplexEncephalitis in a Multiple Sclerosis ImmunosupressedPatientSilvi Shah, Juan Calle, Martin Schreiber; Cleveland Clinic,Cleveland, OH, USA

326 Increased Serum Osmolality Gap in Pesticide Ingestion:Case ReportPayam Shakouri, George Coritsidis; Elmhurst HospitalCenter, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NewYork, NY, USA

337 ZS-9, a Novel Selective Cation Trap, Does Not SignificantlyIncrease Sodium Excretion When Used for the Treatment ofHyperkalemia in Patients with CKDBhupinder Singh1, Stephen R. Ash2, Philip Lavin3, AlexYang4, Henrik S. Rasmussen5; 1Southwest ClinicalResearch Institute, Tempe, AZ, USA; 2Indiana UniversityHealth Arnett, Lafayette, IN, USA; 3Boston Biostats.Research Foundation, Framingham, MA, USA; 4XelayAcumen, Belmont, CA, USA; 5ZS Pharma, Coppell, TX,USA

343 Hypophosphatemia Secondary to Tumor Induced Osteoma-lacia in Metastatic Prostate CancerRamapriya Sinnakirouchenan, Hariprasad S Trivedi;Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

354 Topiramate Induced Proximal Renal Tubular Acidosis(RTA): How Late is Late Recovery?Dhaval Sureja, Hasan Arif; Drexel University College ofMedicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

360 Medullary Sponge Kidney Associated with DistalRenal Tubular Acidosis: Diagnostic Utility of RenalUltrasonographyEkamol Tantisattamo, Jason Cobb, Vandana D Niyyar;Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

371 Characteristics, Therapies and Factors Influencing Outcomesof Hospitalized Hypernatremic Geriatric PatientsMuhammad R. Toor, Anjali Singla, Maria V. DeVita, JordanL. Rosenstock, Michael F. Michelis; Lenox Hill Hospital,New York, NY, USA

386 Hyponatremia as a Result of Posttraumatic Primary Poly-dipsia without Psychiatric DisorderJennifer E. Williamson, Sean Maddock, Anna Moreno-Galvan, Vania Castillo, Roger Carbajal; Department ofMedicine, New York Medical College, MetropolitanHospital Center, New York, NY

387 In Vitro Ion Exchange Capacity and Selectivity of ZS-9,a Novel, Selective Cation Trap for the Treatment ofHyperkalemiaAlex Yang1, Alejandro Leon2, Mark Nuttall2, John J. Low3,Henrik S. Rasmussen2; 1Xelay Acumen, Inc., Belmont, CA,USA; 2ZS Pharma Inc., Coppell, TX, USA; 3Consultant,Schaumburg, IL, USA

393 Polyethylene Glycol Solution (PEG) Induced HyponatremiaThet Zaw, Swapna Purohit, Mujtaba Hasnain, Iliana Car-dona, Shaista Hussain, Neil Lyman; Saint Barnabas MedicalCenter, Livingston, New Jersey

GLOMERULAR DISEASES24 Adalimumab Induced Antibody Formation Causing Class V

Lupus NephritisGaurav Alreja, Ruchir Trivedi; University of Connecticut,Farmington, CT, USA

33 Etanercept Induced Glomerulonephritis in a Patient withRheumatoid Arthritis

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Folatomi Ashiru, Vera Abaaba, Chinedu Ivonye, Cham-berlain Obialo; Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta,GA, USA

36 A Rare Case of Pauci-Immune Crescentic Glomerulone-phritis in a Patient with SLEAhmad Aswad, Catherine Abendroth, Umar Farooq; PennState Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

51 Understanding Decision Making in Nephrotic Syndrome(NS) From the Perspective of Patients, Parents andProvidersHeather Beanlands1, Maria Maione1, Caroline Poulton2,Emily Herreshoff3, Michelle Hladunewich4, MarilynHailperin5, Mary Margaret Modes6, Patrick Nachman2,Lawrence An3, Debbie Gipson3; 1Ryerson University, Tor-onto, ON, Canada; 2University of North Carolina, ChapelHill, NC, USA; 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,USA; 4University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;5NephCure Foundation, Berwyn, PA, USA; 6Patient Advo-cate, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

52 Nephrotic Patients with Membranous Nephropathy (MN)Treated with ACTH: Five Year Follow-UpAnna-Lena Berg; Lund University, Sweden.

68 Treatment-Refractory Histologic TIP-Variant FSGS ina Patient with Systemic Lupus ErythematosusKristin Meliambro, Shuchita Sharma, Kirk N. Campbell;Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,USA

88 Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Collapsing Glomerulop-athy in Anti-Phospholipid SyndromeAileen Grace Cielo, Liliane Hobeika, Juan Carlos Velez;Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

96 Persistent Lysozymuria Following Treatment of FocalSegmental GlomerulosclerosisPaul J. Der Mesropian, Mohamed O. Atwaibi, Rocco C.Venuto; University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

107 Dual Glomerulopathy (ANCA Plus ANTI-PLA2R Anti-body Positive Primary Membranous GN) in the VeryElderlyLaura El-Hage, Morgan Lindsay, Syed Haqqie, LlewellynFoulke, Arif Asif; Albany Medical College, Albany, NY,USA

120 A Case of Renal Amyloidosis without MonoclonalGammopathyOlumide Gbolahan, Olufunke Akinbobuyi, Axiyan Maihe-muti, Khalid Bashir; Morehouse School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA, USA

121 Immune Deposits with ANCA Related Glomerulonephritis:A Diagnostic and Management DilemmaManish Gera1, Kumar Gaurav1, C.L. Phillips2; 1InternalMedicine Nephrology Inc. Terre Haute, IN, USA; 2I.U.Pathology, Indianapolis, IN, USA

122 Renal Limited Amyloidosis with Apparent Response, YetNo Response to Treatment. A Unique Case and Review ofLiteratureManish Gera, Kumar Gaurav; Internal Medicine NephrologyInc., Terre Haute, IN, USA

132 An Association or Unusual Manifestation of LupusNephritis: Minimal Change Disease.Archana Gupta, Rute Paixao, Dianne Sand; Cleveland ClinicFlorida, Weston, FL, USA

135 Proteinuria in Severe Lupus Nephritis Correlates withDiffuse Foot Process EffacementP. Gurnani, D. Cimbaluk, E. J. Lewis, W. Whittier; RushUniversity Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

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148 Alfalfa Supplement Association with SLE and Anca-Positive Vasculitis: From a Monkey to a Stubborn Patient. ACase ReportMarcos A. Hernandez-Roman, Massiel Prieto, EduardoCastro, Nimrit Goraya; Scott and White Memorial Hospital,Temple, TX, USA

155 Spontaneous Renal Hemorrhage (Wunderlich Syndrome)in Biopsy-Proven ANCA Vasculitis: A Case Report andReview of the LiteratureMuzzaffar Hussain, Daniel Landry; Baystate MedicalCenter, Springfield, MA, USA

177 Mycophenolate Mofetil for the Treatment MembranousNephropathy Associated with Chronic Graft-Versus-HostDiseaseAmeet Karambelkar, Manoj Bhattarai, Heidi Schaefer,Sheldon Bastacky, John P. Johnson; University of Pitts-burgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

184 Worsening AKI with Plasmapheresis in Atypical HUS: AClue to Underlying Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis:The First Case ReportViren Kaul, Gurmeen Kaur, Amritpal Nat, Amitpal Nat,Syed Haider Imam, Aditya Kalakonda, Harvir SinghGambhir, Bernard Poiesz; SUNY Upstate Medical Univer-sity, Syracuse, NY, USA

185 An Unusual Presentation of IGA Nephropathy-PulmonaryCapillaritisGurmeen Kaur, Denzil Etienne, Viren Kaul, ShalinKothari; SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY,USA

187 Hydralazine Associated Rare Dermo-Renal SyndromeTaranpreet Kaur, Neeraj Kumar, Susan Kim; LincolnMedical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, NY, USA

190 Histone Deacetylase Inhibition as a Cause of FocalSegmental Glomerulosclerosis in a Patient with MultipleMyelomaMaria S. Khan, Tibor Nadasdy, Yvonne Efebera, Samir V.Parikh; Division of Nephrology, the Ohio State University,Columbus, OH, USA

204 Nephrotic Syndrome Secondary to Smoking-AssociatedNon-Diabetic Nodular Glomerulosclerosis: A Case ReportPongsathorn Kue-A-Pai, Robert Perkins; Bassett MedicalCenter, Cooperstown, NY, USA

205 Elderly Female with Anemia and Acute Renal FailureKumar, Aswini1, Reddy, Aswanth2, Elliott, William1;1SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA;2Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA, USA2

213 Case Report: Stroke in Young Woman as a PresentingManifestation of Menbranous NephropathySunggeun Lee, Donald Baumstein, Roger CarbajalMendoza, Ashok Chaudhari; Metropolitan Medical Center,New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

219 Libman-Sacks Endocarditis in a Patient with RapidlyProgressive Glomerulonephritis Presenting a TherapeuticDilemmaKris Lepere, Krishna Baradhi, Malcolm Buford; UniversityOf Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, OK, USA

221 Immunofluorescence Based Re-Classification of Mem-branoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Does it Make aDifference?Fanna Liu, Jiwan K Thapa, Surafel Gebreselassie, ZiadZaky; Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, ClevelandClinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

227 Treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome with Acthar� Gel: ARetrospective Case Series



Arvind Madan1, Amber S Milward1, Anupa Khastgir2;1Nephrology Associates of Central Florida, Orlando, FL,USA; 2Private Practice, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

228 Isolated Presentation of Goodpasture’s Syndrome withExposure to HydrocarbonsAiswerya Madanam-Sampath, Veera Panuganty; SUNYUpstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA

254 Curious Case of AmyloidosisDmitri Nikolaenko, Kanwaljit Chouhan; Iowa MethodistMedical Center, Des Moines, IA, USA

259 IGA Nephropathy in a Patient with Hepatitis C Virus - LiverCirrhosisGordana Obradovic, Michael Schultz, Maria Camila Ber-mudez, Stefanie Puher; Geisinger Medical Center, Danville,PA, USA

260 A Case of Lupus Nephritis in an HIV-Infected PatientNnaemezie Odioemene, Jason Cobb; Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine, Renal Division, Atlanta, GA, USA

261 Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis Masquerading as Anti-GBMDiseaseNnaemezie Odioemene, Thomas Rogers, John Doran;Emory University, Grady Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA

278 Collapsing Glomerulopathy with Tubuloreticular Inclusionin HIV Negative PatientNinad Parekh, Chetana Rondla, Geovani Faddoul, SuzanneEl-Sayegh, Elie El-Charabaty; Staten Island UniversityHospital, Staten Island, NY, USA

287 B-Cell and T-Cell Interaction in Minimal Change DiseaseAtul Poudel, Clive Wasserfall, Eduardo H. Garin; Depart-ments of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology and Pathology,University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

290 Is Monoclonalgammpathy of Undetermined Significance(MGUS) Really Insignficant?Stefanie Puher, William DiFilippo, Ion Dan Bucaloiu;Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

292 Membranous Nephropathy with CrescentsH Qadir, I Iqbal, A Vasudeva, S Akbar, R Mustafa,K Mackay; West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV,USA

317 Collapsing Glomerulopathy and Autoimmune Disorders- AnUnclear AssociationNishkarsh Saxena, Kavitha Kesari, Susan Smith, VaibhavSahni; McLaren Hospital, Michigan State University, Flint,MI, USA

322 Delayed Presentation of Sarcoidosis After Diagnosis ofFibrillary GlomerulonephritisRobin Shah1, Joseph Kremer2; 1The Christ Hospital HealthNetwork, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 2The Kidney and Hyper-tension Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

327 Predominant Tubulointerstitial Involvement in a Patient withLupus NephritisNisha Shankar1, Niranjan Sankaranarayanan2; 1University ofConnecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA;2Greater Hartford Nephrology Bloomfield, CT, USA

352 Hydralazine-Associated ANCA VasculitisGhayyath Sultan, Gaurav Agarwal, Sherry Werner, ClaudiaHura; University of Texas Health Science Center, SanAntonio, TX, USA

361 Thromboembolic Events: An Initial Presentation and Cluefor the Diagnosis of Secondary Membranous NephropathyEkamol Tantisattamo, Jeanie Park; Emory University,Atlanta, GA, USA

364 Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage as Initial Presentation ofAcute Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (APSGN)


Yuvaraj Thangaraj, Adam Holtzman, Taha Ayach, ImtiazAther, Hem Chataut, Sunil D.Bali, A. Ahsan Ejaz; Divisionof Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, Univer-sity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

365 Diffuse Proliferative Lupus Nephritis Presenting withCryoglobulinemic Renal Vasculitis in the Late Post PartumPeriodYuvaraj Thangaraj, Taha Ayach, Sunil Daniel Bali,Imtiaz Ather, Hem Chataut, A Ahsan Ejaz; Division ofNephrology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

372 Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis in a Patient withPolymyositisPatompong Ungprasert, Napat Leeaphorn, Pongsathorn Kue-A-Pai; Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY, USA

379 C3 Glomerulonephritis Manifesting as Recurrent Episodesof Acute Kidney Injury During Times of InfectionMyriam Vela-Ortiz, Shawn Hazlett, Sharif Ali; EastonHospital Affiliated with Drexel Unniversity, Department ofInternal Medicine and Nephrology, Easton, PA, USA

383 Unusual Case of Membranous Glomerulonephritis Associ-ated with LevamisoleJackson Wang, Jose Morfin; Division of Nephrology,University of California, Davis School of Medicine,Sacramento, CA, USA

385 Prevalence of Glomerulonephritis in the US: Insights Froma Large Administrative DatasetJames B. Wetmore,1,2 Haifeng Guo,2 David T. Gilbertson2 ;1Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN,USA; 2Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis, MN,USA

394 Relapse of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener’s)After 15 Years RemissionThet Zaw, Sowmini Medavaram, Cheng Chu, Shaista Hus-sain, Neha Garg, Neil Lyman; Saint Barnabas MedicalCenter, Livingston, NJ, USA

395 Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma Associated with SystemicLight Chain Disease and Idiopathic Nodular Glomerulo-sclerosis Resulting in Severe Renal Decline Responsive toBortezomib Based ChemotherapyPanagiotis Zervogiannis, Jorge Lamarche, Alfredo Peguero,Craig Courville; Veterans Affairs Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

HEREDITARY KIDNEY DISEASE/PKD74 Characteristics of ADPKD Patients With Rapid Progression

To Renal Failure: Lessons From CRISPArlene B Chapman1, Patrice Gibbs2, Frederic Rahbari-Oskoui1, Ty Bae2, Harpreet Singh Bhutani1, Jared Gran-tham3, Peter Harris4, Michal Mrug5, Vicente Torres4, AlanYu3, Micheal Flessner6, Doug Landsittel2; 1Emory Univer-sity, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2University of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, PA, USA; 3Kansas University Medical Center,Kansas City, KS, USA; 4Mayo College of Medicine,Rochester, MN, USA; 5University of Alabama atBirmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 6National Institutesof Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

178 Autosomal Dominant Interstitial Kidney DiseaseKarthik Karanam, Lindsey Slater, Stephanie Gilibert;Christiana Care Hospital, Newark, DE, USA

201 Fabry Neuropathy Masquerading as Raynaud’s Disease:A Missed Opportunity for Early DiagnosisZubin Kolangaden, Jamie Alton Green; Geisinger MedicalCenter, Danville, PA, USA

202 Renal Cysts and Diabetes Syndrome Associated with a17Q12 Deletion

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Zubin Kolangaden, Jamie Alton Green; Geisinger MedicalCenter, Danville, PA, USA

272 Burden of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease(ADPKD): Effects on the Daily Lives of Patients and theirCaregiversAndrew C Palsgrove1, Lisa M Guay-Woodford2, RebeccaCheng1, Dorothee Oberdhan3, Jaime Blais3, Jason CCole1, Arlene B Chapman4; 1Covance Inc, Gaithersburg,MD, USA; 2Children’s National Health System, Wash-ington, DC, USA; 3Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development &Commercialization, Inc, Rockville, MD, USA; 4EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA, USA

285 Baseline Total Kidney Volume Is Associated with Wors-ening of Kidney Function Independently of BaselineGlomerular Filtration Rate in Patients with AutosomalDominant Polycystic Kidney DiseaseRD Perrone1, JF Marier2, MS Mouksass2, F Czerwiec3,K Romero4, E Dennis4, D Miskulin1, A Chapman5,B Gitomer6, V Torres, PKD Outcomes Consortium; 1TuftsMedical Center, Boston, MA, USA 2Pharsight, Montreal,Canada; 3Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Rockville, MD, USA;4Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA; 5Emory Univer-sity, Atlanta, GA, USA; 6University of Colorado, Aurora,CO, USA; 7Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

286 End-Stage Renal Disease in Patients with AutosomalDominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Is Dependent onBaseline Total Kidney Volume and Baseline GlomerularFiltration RateRD Perrone1, JF Marier2, MS Mouksass2, F Czerwiec3,K Romero4, E Dennis4, D Miskulin1, A Chapman5,B Gitomer6, V Torres, PKD Outcomes Consortium; 1TuftsMedical Center, Boston, MA, USA 2Pharsight, Montreal,Canada; 3Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Rockville, MD, USA;4Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA; 5Emory Univer-sity, Atlanta, GA, USA; 6University of Colorado, Aurora,CO, USA; 7Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

298 Hyperphosphatemia with High Fibroblast Growth Factor 23:A Complex Genetic DisorderR Raina, P Hanley, Linda Lou, B Vogt; PediatricNephrology, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital atCase Western Reserve University School of MedicineCleveland, OH, USA

HOME DIALYSIS: HOME HEMODIALYSIS/PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

5 Successful Urgent Start Peritoneal DialysisFarhan Abid, Amit D. Tevar, Filitsa H. Bender, BethPiraino; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh,PA, USA

14 Emergence of Rapid-Growing Atypical Mycobacterial ExitSite Infections in Current Era of Wide-Spread Use ofTopical Gentamicin for Exit Site Infection ProphylaxisMohammed Ahmad, Martha Salazar, Paolo Fanti, ShwetaBansal; Division of Nephrology, UTHSC at San Antonio,TX, USA

20 Caregiver Burden Among Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodi-alysis Family in Saudi ArabiaJamal Al Wakeel1, Magda Bayoumi2; 1King Saud Univer-sity, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 1King Khalid University,Mahail, Saudi Arabia

72 Patient Reported Adverse Events in Home HemodialysisK Tennankore, R Faratro, C D’Gama, E Wong, S Fung andCT Chan; University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario,Canada

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128 Massive Pneumoperitoneum in Patients on Chronic Perito-neal DialysisVanya Grover, Chelsea Estrada, William Weber, CherylLaveglia, Heesuck Suh, Nand K. Wadhwa; Division ofNephrology, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, USA

179 Inferior Mediastinal Leak on Peritoneal DialysisKarthik Karanam, Collette Mehring, Michael Gross; Chris-tiana Care Hospital, Newark, DE, USA

223 Anesthesia for Laparoscopic Insertion of Peritoneal DialysisCatheterXihui Liu1,2, Todd Penner2, Viji Venkataramanan2, JoanneM. Bargman2; 1Division of Nephrology, Linyi People’sHospital, Shandong Province, China; 2Division ofNephrology, Toronto General Hospital (TGH), Toronto,ON, Canada

237 Acinetobacter iwoffii Peritonitis in a Patient on AutomatedPeritoneal DialysisNirav Mehta, Chinmay Patel, Hitesh H. Shah; Hofstra NorthShore-LIJ School of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, USA

321 Urgent Initiation of Peritoneal Dialysis: A Safe and ViableAlternativeAndres Serrano; Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

356 Fungal Peritonitis Due to Candida Parapsilosis After Colo-noscopy in a Peritoneal Dialysis PatientFahd Syed, Alejandra Mena-Gutierrez, Dumitru Rotaru;Division of Nephrology, University of Arkansas for MedicalSciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

HYPERTENSION89 A Non-Vascular Treatment for Resistant Hypertension:

Preclinical and Early Clinical ExperienceRandy Cooper, Terrence J. Buelna, Winton L. Berci, Brad S.Hubbard, DVM, Mihir Desai, Richard R. Heuser; Universityof Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

126 Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Angiography in the Diagnosis OfFibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD): A Case ReportRoveena Goveas1,2, Humayun Ashraf1,2, Noreen Rossi1,3,John Flack1,2, James Sondheimer1,2; 1Wayne State Univer-sity School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Detroit MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA; 3John D. Dingell VA MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA

305 Central Diabetes Insipidus in the Setting of Post PartumPosterior Leukoencephalopathy SyndromeAndrea Roche, Panupong Lisawat, Glenda Euceda,Badamkhand Baatarkhuu, Raymond Raut, Winston Shih;Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT, USA

319 Blood Pressure and Renal Function After Renal Denerva-tion: Insights From the Global SYMPLICITY RegistryMarkus Schlaich1, Luis Ruilope2, Roland Schmieder3,Giuseppe Mancia4, Felix Mahfoud5, Michael Böhm5; 1BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia;2Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; 3UniversitätErlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany; 4University ofMilano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy; 5Universitätskliniken desSaarlandes, Homburg, Germany

NUTRITION4 Association of High and Low Density Lipoproteins (HDL

and LDL) with All-Cause Mortality in Peritoneal DialysisPatientsPouya Abhari1, Hamid Moradi1, Vanessa Ravel1, ElaniStreja1, Connie M. Rhee1, Csaba P. Kovesdy2, RajnishMehrotra3, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1; 1Harold Simmons



Center, UC Irvine, Orange, CA, USA; 2Nephrology,University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA; 3Universityof Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

102 Effect of Age on Association of Serum Cholesterol andMortality in Hemodialysis PatientsMegha Doshi1, Hamid Moradi1, Elani Streja1, Connie M.Rhee1, Csaba P. Kovesdy2, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1;1Harold Simmons Center, UC Irvine Medical Center,Orange, CA, USA; 2Division of Nephrology, University ofTennessee, Memphis, TN, USA

166 When Have You Said too Much? Counseling for StonePreventionR. Allan Jhagroo, Margaret Wertheim, Kristina L Penniston;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

216 “Malnutrition and Low Solute Intake”: An OverlookedCause of Refractory Hyponatremia in a Patient with SIADHNapat Leeaphorn1, Wonngarm Kittanamongkolchai1, CharatThongprayoon2, Wisit Cheungpasitporn2, Carol Beechy1;1Department of Medicine, Bassett Medical Center, Coop-erstown, NY, USA; 2Division of Nephrology and Hyper-tension at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA

302 Role of Dietary Protein Intake in Association of SerumPhosphorus with Mortality in Hemodialysis PatientsVanessa Ravel1, Wei-Ling Lau1, Connie M Rhee1, ElaniStreja1, Jongha Park1, Hsin-yi Wang1, Csaba P Kovesdy2,Steven Brunelli3, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1; 1Harold Sim-mons Center, UC Irvine, Orange, CA, USA; 2Nephrology,Univ. Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA; 3DaVita Clin Res.,Denver, CO, USA

348 Association Between Change in Triglycerides Over Timeand Mortality Among Incident Hemodyalsis PatientsShah Steiner1, Elani Streja1, Connie M. Rhee1, HamidMoradi1, Csaba P. Kovesdy2, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1;1Harold Simmons Center, UC Irvine Medical Center,Orange, CA, USA; 2Division of Nephrology, University ofTennessee, Memphis, TN, USA

TRANSPLANTATION3 Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD)

Masquerading As Acute RejectionAmeer Abdulrazzak, David B. Butcher, Keith A. Bellovich;St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA

9 Hemophagocytic LymphohistiocytosisSailaja Adari, AK Gamilla-Crudo, PV Kadambi; Universityof Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

30 Intraoperative Hemodialysis During Liver Transplantation:Over a Decade of ExperienceAppachu K, Nadim MK, Matsuoka L, Genyk YS; KeckSchool of Medicine, University of Southern California, LosAngeles, CA, USA

37 Successful Treatment of Resistant Cytomegalovirus Due toUL97 and UL54 Mutations with High-Dose ValganciclovirLyn Aure1, Pranay Kathuria1, Alan Hola2, Jose El-Amm2;1Division of Nephrology, University of Oklahoma in Tulsa,Tulsa, OK, USA; 2Kidney and Pancreas Division, NazihZuhdi Transplant Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

54 Extramedullary Plasmacytoma Post Transplant Lympho-proliferative Disorder (PTLD) in a Renal Allograft Treatedwith BortezomibArpit Bhargava, Bhavna Chopra, Pritam Tayshetye,Katherine Jasnosz, Dulabh Monga, Richard Marcus; Alle-gheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

57 Rhabdomyolysis in a Transplanted Patient on Chronic StableDoses of Cyclosporine and Simvastatin


Jimena Blandon, Mauro Braun, Beth Fromkin, Rute Paixao,Dianne Sandy; Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

61 The Benefit of Peer Mentors in Dialysis Patient EducationThrough Transplant ExposStacy Brand, Sandy Feldkamp; University of MichiganTransplant Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

67 Is C1q Binding Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies StillClinically Relevant More Than 10 Years After KidneyTransplantation?S. Calp-Inal, A. Colavai, M. Melamed, E. Akalin; AlbertEinstein College of Medicine/Montefiore, Bronx, NY, USA

75 Should We Check Serum Oxalate Levels In Renal Trans-plant For Primary Hyperoxaluria?Muhammad Chaudhry, Gaurav Agarwal, R. Allan Jhagroo;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

76 Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor(VEGF) Therapy May Induce Renal Allograft Poroteinuriaand Antibody Mediated InjuryFouad Chebib, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Lynn Cornell,Michelle Brodin, Hatem Amer; Mayo Clinic, Rochester,MN, USA

79 Kidney Transplant Recipient with Proteinuria and Subse-quent Membranous Nephropathy After Intravitreal Anti-VEGF TherapyWisit Cheungpasitporn, Fouad Chebib, Lynn Cornell,Hatem Amer; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

81 Factors in the Recipient Pre Transplant Evaluation Leadingto Kidney TransplantationShailaja Chidella, Asha Alex, Lisa Rosen, Gayathri Nair,Mala Sachdeva; Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medi-cine, Great Neck, NY, USA

87 Outcomes of Reduced Immunosuppression in Post-RenalAllograft De Novo Prostate Malignancy PatientsCheng Chu,Varun Malik, Thet Zaw, Sadanand Palekar;Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA

98 High Frequency of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients AfterRecent Renal Transplantation in Southern CaliforniaRahul Dhawan, Leann Shin, Chong Parke, Elaine M. Kap-tein; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,USA

104 Multilocular Cystic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A PretransplantMalignancy with No Tumor-Free Waiting PeriodApril Elam1, Ekamol Tantisattamo2, Jason Cobb2; 1Depart-ment of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta,GA, USA; 2Renal Division, Department of Medicine, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA, USA

106 Treatment of BK Viremia and Subsequent GraftRejectioneA Double Edged Sword Clinical DecisionNissreen Elfadawy, Stuart Flechner, Richard Fatica, SherifMossad, Saul Nurko, Brian Stephany, Jesse Schold, EmilioPoggio; The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

109 Sexual Functioning in Female Renal Allograft PatientsElizabeth Ernst, Susan Hou, Elizabeth R. Mueller; LoyolaUniversity Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Chicago, IL,USA

110 Drug Eluting Stents for Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis:5 Year OutcomesChelsea Estrada, Anubhav Kumar, Mersema T Abate,Frank Darras, Anil Mani, Edward P Nord; Nephrology/Cardiology, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY,USA

114 Calcineurin Inhibitor-Free Immunosuppression After HeartTransplantationeTrading Improving Renal Function for Riskof Acute And Chronic Rejection in Follow-Up?

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Miriam IE Freundt1, Assad Haneya2, Philipp Kolat1,Leopold Rupprecht1, Stephan Hirt1, Christof Schmid1;1University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg,Germany; 2University Medical Center Schleswig-Hollstein,Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

127 Nephron Sparing Therapy For Incidental De Novo RenalCell Carcinoma (RCC) in a Kidney Allograft 15 Years AfterTransplanatation: Case ReportRoveena Goveas1,2, Mona Doshi1,2; 1Wayne State Univer-sity School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Detroit MedicalCenter, Detroit, MI, USA

149 Ureteral Stent May Not be Associated with the Developmentof Significant BK Viruria and/or ViremiaMarcos A. Hernandez-Roman, Mohanram Narayanan; Scottand White Memorial Hospital, Temple, TX, USA

168 Acute Kidney Injury From Multiple Etiologies FollowingKidney Transplantation in a Patient with Alport SyndromeArksarapuk Jittirat, Heidi Schaefer, J.Harold Helderman,Paisit Paueksakon; Vanderbilt University School of Medi-cine, Nashville, TN, USA

173 Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation in Patients withIGA Nephropathy: An Analysis of the UNOS/OPTNDatabaseAditya Kadiyala, Anna Mathew, Cristina Sison, MalaSachdeva, Steven Fishbane, Kenar D Jhaveri; Hofstra-NSLIJSchool of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, USA

180 Cytomegalovirus Glomerulopathy with Focal SegmentalGlomerulosclerosis in a Renal AllograftRiyaj Kasekar, Parmjeet Randhawa, Christine Wu;University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA,USA

182 Concomitant Use of TNF-Alpha Inhibitors and CNI BasedMaintenance Immunosuppression in Kidney TransplantRecipientsAshish Kataria, Praneil Mehta, Zubin Lathara, Aaron Dall;Division of Nephrology, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI,USA

191 Renal Allograft Salvage After Venous OcclusionMaria S. Khan, Jon Von Visger, Uday S. Nori; The OhioState University, Division of Nephrology, Columbus, OH,USA

196 Common Iliac Stenosis Presenting as Kidney AllograftDysfunction and Resistant HypertensionTalal Khan, Azka Arif, Karthik Ranganna, Gary Xiao,Gregory Malat and Alden Doyle; Drexel University Collegeof Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Philadelphia, PA,USA

198 Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection: C1q Fixation byDSA Correlates with C4d Deposition in the Graft and MoreSevere PathologyZeeshan Khawaja1,2; 1Department of Transplantation, LaheyClinic, Burlington, MA, USA; 2Massachusetts GeneralHospital, Boston, MA, USA

206 JC Virus Presenting as AKI in a Kidney TransplantRecepientAnshul Kumar, Vibha Agrawal, Aedan Olaso, HenrySchairer; Nephrology Division, Lehigh Valley Hospital,Allentown, PA, USA

209 LongeTerm Outcome of Ketoconazole and TacrolimusCo-Administration in Kidney Transplant PatientsHeather LaGuardia, Mary Killackey, Katherine Mills,Damodar Kumbala, Enver Khan, Anil Paramesh, RubinZhang; Tulane University Hospital and Clinics, NewOrleans, LA, USA

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217 A Curious Case of Acute Allograft Dysfunction AfterCannabinoids UseRapeepat Lekkham, Mauricio Pedroza, Gitana Bradauskaite,Rasib Raja; Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia,PA, USA

250 Syphilis Induced Acute Cellular Rejection in RenalTransplantDisha Narula, Talal Ali Khan, Amit Deshpande, ParmishKohli, Karthik Ranganna; Drexel University College ofMedicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

257 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in an Adult KidneyTransplant PatientEmmanuel Nwadike, Dinesh Kannabhiran, Kellie Calderon,Maria Nieva Salazar; Medical University of South Carolina,Charleston, SC, USA

258 Mycobacterium Haemophilum Infection in an Adult KidneyTransplant RecipientEmmanuel Nwadike, Dinesh Kannabhiran, Kellie Calderon,Maria Nieva Salazar; Medical University of South Carolina,Charleston, SC, USA

273 Cytomegalovirus Associated Atypical Hemolytic UremicSyndrome in a Renal Transplant Recepient: Utility ofEculizumabRicha Pandey, Arvind Garg, Christina Klein, Brent Miller,Daniel Brennan; Washington University, St Louis, MO,USA

282 Crescentic IGA Nephropathy in Renal Allograft: A CaseReportShashikant Patel, Samir Parikh, Jon Von Visger; Ohio StateUniversity, Columbus, OH, USA

296 Spontaneous Subcapsular Hematoma in Renal AllograftFollowing UrosepsisEbadur Rahman, Moddassar Mahboob, Ghada Shoel,M Al Sulaimanl; Prince Sultan Military Medical City,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

300 CMV Associated Collapsing FSGS in Renal TransplantPatientVinayak Ramanath, Graham Towns; University of Alabamaat Birmingham, AL, USA

310 De Novo Multiple Myeloma After Kidney TransplantationSami Safadi, Nelson Leung, Fernando Cosio, Hatem Amer,Morie Gertz, Vincent Rajkumar, Suzanee Hayman, MarthaLacy, Angela Dispenzieri; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN,USA

325 Beta-2 Microglobulin (B2M) Predicts Acute Rejection in theEarly Post Transplantation PeriodSumaira Shaikh, Brad C. Astor, Arjang Djamali; Universityof Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, USA

357 Recurrent ORF Infection in a Renal Transplant RecipientTreated Successfully with Topical Cidofovir: A CaseAgainst Excision and Skin GraftingFahd Syed1, Sameh R Abul-Ezz1, Jerad M Gardner2;1Division of Nephrology University of Arkansas for MedicalSciences, Little Rock, AR, USA; 2Departments of Pathologyand Dermatology, University of Arkansas for MedicalSciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

358 Post Renal Transplant Hypercalcemia and Role of PreTransplant Parathyroid HormoneTandon G, Bloom E, Raja R; Albert Einstein MedicalCenter, Philadelphia, PA, USA

370 Serial Stool Studies and Colonoscopy with Biopsies forIncreased Detection of Cryptosporidium Infection in RenalTransplant Patients: Case Report and Review of RelatedLiterature



Ma. Clarisse Toledo, Saul Nurko, Aneesha Shetty; Depart-ment of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic,Cleveland, OH, USA

389 Comparison of Staff vs Patient Attitudes on Organ andTissue DonationJerry Yee1,2, Nanhua Zhang3, Allyce Smith4, AnnAndrews4, Holly Jenkins-Riley2, Sheri Stav2, Denise Cyz-man3, Julia Herzog4, Ken Resnicow5; 1Henry Ford HealthSystem, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Greenfield Health Systems,Bingham Farms, MI, USA; 3Cincinnati Children’s Hospitaland University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 4NKFof Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 5School of PublicHealth, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

OTHER13 Paradoxical Renal Infract: An Unrecognized Entity

Ravi Agrawal, Krishna Baradhi, Pranay Kathuria; Universityof Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK,USA

25 Kidney Outcomes Based on Complement Mutation Status inaHUS Treated with EculizumabVenkat Amara, Maria Khan, Jason Prosek, Anil Agarwal,Samir V. Parikh; The Ohio State University Medical Center,Division of Nephrology, Columbus, OH, USA

34 Are We Optimally Addressing Proteinuria in PatientsAdmitted to General Medical Floors?Vishesh Kumar1, Ramy Sedhom1, Syed S Haqqie1, VinayaSoundararajan2, Ramesh Soundararajan2, Kristi Calland2,Mahrukh Badar1, Ketan Ghate1, Darius Mason1, RoyMathew1, Arif Asif1; 1Albany Medical College, Albany,NY, USA; 2St. James Hospital/Midwestern UniversityMedical School, Chicago, IL, USA

78 Vancomycin Inducing Both Acute Kidney Injury and LinearIGA DermatosisXueying Chen, Kimberly Linden, Nicholas Hinds, HakimUqdah, Talal Khan, Ami Patel, Ibiyonu Lawrence; DrexelUniversity College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

85 The Association Between Dose Ratio at Time of SwitchFrom Darbepoetin Alfa to PEG-epoetin Beta and Trans-fusions In Hemodialysis PatientsP Choi1, N Manamley2, M Farouk3, J Addison2; 1JohnHunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia;2Amgen Ltd., Uxbridge, UK, 3Amgen (Europe) GmbH, Zug,Switzerland

91 Implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) andPatient Satisfaction in Outpatient Nephrology SettingAnnie Culver, Tarik Noureldeen, Neeharika Muddana, JonesJohn, Mahboob Khan, Swati Arora, Kalathil K. Sure-shkumar, Richard J. Marcus and Barbara A. Clark;Nephrology and Hypertension, Allegheny General Hospital,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

154 Acute Oxalate Nephropathy Associated with OrlistatYoushay Humayun, Talal Mahmood, Mohammad Mataria,Jack R Lewin, Tibor Fülöp; University of MississippiMedical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

170 Warfarin Related NephropathySumendra Joshi, Rahul Bhardwaj, Sonal Kamalia; SUNYUpstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

171 Multi-Prong Approach to Improve Phosphorus Control ina Hemodialysis PopulationCherriday Joson, Sue Kim, Stephanie Tovar, MandyCheung, Prajakta Parab, Antoine C. Abcar, John J. Sim;Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, LosAngeles, CA, USA


210 Diagnosis and Successful Surgical Management ofNutcracker Syndrome in a Patient with Loin Pain HematuriaQuynh Lam1, Fahd Syed1, Najindra Maharjan1, DidierPortilla1, Matthew Smeds2, Daniel Borja-Cacho2; 1Divisionof Nephrology, University of Arkansas for MedicalSciences, Little Rock, AR, USA; 2Department of Medicineand Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas forMedical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

239 Uric Acid Levels are Associated with a Higher Risk of HipFractures in Older Men: Data From the CardiovascularHealth Study (CHS)Tapan Mehta1, Petra Buzkova2, Mark Sarnak3, Jane Cau-ley4, Erin Wallace2, Howard Fink5, John Robbins6, DianaJalal1; 1Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension,University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora,CO, USA; 2Department of Biostatistics, University ofWashington, Seattle, WA, USA; 3Department of Medicine,Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA,USA; 4Department of Epidemiology, University of Pitts-burg, Pittsburg, PA, USA; 5Minneapolis VA Health CareSystem, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 6University of CaliforniaDavis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

246 A Rare Case of Renal Infarct in a Patient with TAOSowmya Nagaraj, Imran Baig; Hurley Medical Center, Flint,MI, USA

247 Reductive Massage: A Possible Cause of Renal InfarctionGeorges Nakhoul, Marc Pohl; Cleveland Clinic Foundation,Cleveland, OH, USA

269 Qualitative Evaluation of a Patient Self-Management KioskUse in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Fora 3-Year PeriodStephanie Ong, Kelly Min, Eveline Porter, Vanita Jassal,Alexander Logan, Judith Miller; University Health Network,Toronto, ON, Canada

279 Medical Student Assessment of Technology Utilization inNephrology Education During Preclinical YearsKevin Pargeter, Udayan Bhatt; The Ohio State UniversityMedical Center, Division of Nephrology, Columbus, OH,USA

306 Phosphorus Binding with Ferric Citrate ReducesErythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent (ESA) and IV Iron Usageand Cost in Patients with ESRDRoger Rodby1, Kausik Umanath2, Andrew Hsieh3, RobertNiecestro4, Julia Lewis5, Jamie Dwyer5, for the Collabora-tive study group; 1Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA;2Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA; 3Keryx Bio-pharmaceuticals, New York, NY, USA; 4IndependentConsultant, Pocono Pines, PA, USA; 5Vanderbilt Univer-sity, Nashville, TN, USA

323 Successful Medical Management of Recurrent IdiopathicRetroperitoneal FibrosisSilvi Shah, Juan Calle; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH,USA

350 Relative Importance of Patient Case-Mix to Payments Underthe ESRD PPSJohn M Stephens1, Brendan Maione-Downing1, Peter JNeumann2, Robert J Rubin3, Spiros Tzivelekis4; 1PrimaHealth Analytics, Boston, MA, USA; 2Tufts Medical Center,Boston, MA, USA; 3Georgetown University School ofMedicine, Washington DC, USA; 4Amgen Inc., ThousandOaks, CA, USA

369 CEP 290Mutation: A Rare Cause of Chronic Kidney DiseaseMa. Clarisse Toledo, Fahad Saeed; Department ofNephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,OH, USA

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376 Symptoms and Symptom Impact of Focal SegmentalGlomerulosclerosis (FSGS): Development of the First FSGS-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) QuestionnairesSusan Vallow1, Susan D Mathias2, Debbie Gipson3, KevinThorneloe1, Dennis Sprecher1; 1GlaxoSmithKline, King ofPrussia, PA, USA; 2Health Outcomes Solutions, Winter Park,FL, USA; 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

381 Limited English Proficiency and Medication AdherenceAmong Patients with CKD in The Kidney AwarenessRegistry and Education (KARE) StudyAlexandra Velasquez1, Delphine S. Tuot1, TanushreeBanerjee2, Neil R. Powe2,3; 1Division of NephrologyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2Depart-ment of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco,CA, USA; 3Center for Vulnerable Populations at SanFrancisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA

382 Hypercalcemia and Renal FailureeA Rare Initial Manifes-tation of Orbital SarcoidosisIshmeet Walia, Chandandeep Takkar; University of TexasMedical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

399 Phosphorus Binding With Ferric Citrate Is Associated withFewer Hospitalizations and Reduced Hospitalization CostsRoger Rodby1, Kausik Umanath2, Robert Niecestro3, JayJackson4, Jamie Dwyer5, Julia Lewis5, for the CollaborativeStudy Group; 1Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA; 2HenryFord Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA; 3Independent Consultant,Pocono Pines, PA, USA 4Xcenda, Palm Harbor, FL, USA5Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

LATE BREAKING400 Zerenex� (Ferric Citrate) for the Treatment of Iron-

Deficiency Anemia and Reduction of Serum Phoshate inNon-Dialysis Dependent CKDGeoffrey A. Block1, Steven Fishbane2, Shay Shemesh3,Amit Sharma3, Glenn M. Chertow4; 1Denver Nephrology,Denver, CO, USA; 2Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School ofMedicine, Great Neck, NY, USA; 3Keryx, Inc, New York,NY, USA; 4Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

401 Increasing Nephrology Specialty Care Efficiency with theUse of Electronic ConsultsRajiv Dhamija1, Sally Davis1, Paul Giboney2, Sapna Patel1,Nina Patel1, Neeka Shayan1; 1Rancho Los Amigos NationalRehabilitation Center, Downey, CA, USA; 2Los AngelesCounty Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, CA,USA

402 Individualizing ZS-9 Dosing for Serum Potassium Reduc-tion in Hyperkalemic Patients from a Phase 3 Multicenter,Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled TrialPhilip T. Lavin1, Alex Yang2, Bhupinder Singh3, JacobRasmussen4, Fiona Stavros4, Roland Winger4, Matthew P.

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Kovalsky4, Brent Sorrells4, Henrik S. Rasmussen4; 1BostonBiostatistics Research Foundation, Framingham, MA;2Xelay Acumen, Inc., Belmont, CA; 3Southwest ClinicalResearch Institute, Tempe, AZ; 4ZS Pharma, Inc., Coppell,TX, USA

403 Description of Two Methods for Accurately EstimatingCreatinine Clearance in Acute Kidney InjuryJohn Mellas; Saint Mary’s Health Center; St Louis, MO,USA

404 Qualification of Total Kidney Volume as a PrognosticBiomarker for Use in Clinical Trials Evaluating Patientswith Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney DiseaseRD Perrone1, JF Marier2, MS Mouksassi2, F Czerwiec3,K Romero4, E Dennis4, D Miskulin1, A Chapman5,B Gitomer6, V Torres7. PKD Outcomes Consortium; 1TuftsUniversity. Boston, MA, USA; 2Pharsight Montreal,Quebec, Canada; 3Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Rockville, MD,USA; 4Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA; 5EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA, USA; 6University of Colorado,Aurora, CO, USA; 7Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, USA

405 Manual Microscopy: Not a Lost ArtNatasha Sharda, Omid Bakhtar, Bijin Thajudeen, EdMeister, Harold Szerlip; Division of Nephrology, Universityof Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

406 Effect of CTP-499 on Renal Function in Patients with Type2 Diabetes and Kidney DiseaseBhupinder Singh1, Susan A. Diamond2, Pablo E. Pergola3,James E. Shipley4, Lijun Wu4, LuAnn A. Sabounjian4,Philip B. Graham4; 1Southwest Clinical Research Institute,Tempe, AZ, USA; 2San Antonio Kidney Disease Center,San Antonio, TX, USA; 3Renal Associates PA, San Anto-nio, TX, USA 4Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington,MA, USA

407 Implementing a 72 Hour Time Window to Calculate AKIRatesHarlan Sparrow, Linda Moore, Carol Ashton, Ahmed Gaber,Wadi Suki, David Putney, Nelda Wray; Houston MethodistHospital, Houston, TX, USA

408 Kidney Dysfunction in Severely Obese AdolescentsEnrolled in the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of BariatricSurgery (Teen-Labs) StudyNianzhou Xiao1, Todd Jenkins1, Edward Nehus1, ThomasInge1, Marc Michalsky2, Mark Mitsnefes1; 1CincinnatiChildren’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA;2Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

409 Survival Comparison of Daily Home Hemo vs ConventionalDialysis in the Nursing Home SettingAlex Yang, Wen-Ya Lee, Kathy Hocking, Xelay Acumen,Inc., Belmont, CA; Affiliated Dialysis Centers, Peoria, IL,USA


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