The battle of the acronyms!!! HIVAN (HIV-associated nephropathy) and HIVICK (HIV immune complex disease of the kidney) used to be perennial powerhouses garnering worldwide attention. Now they may be ...

As chairman of the Samuel F. Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Klotman has been studying the kidney for almost 30 years. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the kidney diseases ...

The Paul Klotman laboratory studies HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) and how the kidney responds to HIV infection. HIVAN only afflicts people of African descent, and remains a leading cause of renal ...

The risk factors associated with HIVAN were best described in one of the largest series of patients with biopsy-proven HIVAN, published recently.[16] Although the results may be affected by bias ...

Widespread use of antiretroviral therapy has led to a change in the spectrum of renal pathologies associated with HIV infection The incidence of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) has decreased since ...