Did we just wrap up #NephMadness 2025? Yes... Is it time to start planning #NephMadness 2026? YES! Share your ideas for next year's tournament! bit.ly/NM26Ideas @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social‬ @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social

Still in awe that I was one of the top scorers for #NephMadness this year 😬🔥

Huge honour for me to have my picture beside yours!!, 🤓🙏 Be sure to include the #NephMadness photo on your CV too, 🤓😂🤣😂😀

Finally, I win a #NephMadness prize 🏆 This goes right in the CV!

Strong 💪 work, Yara!! #NephMadness 🏆

#NephMadness 2025, #AJKD Blog, contributors, followers and participans Gracias Totales!!! 😎 🎸🧡

Thanks for the opportunity, #NephMadness! Can’t believe it’s my 5th year in a row—hope to keep the streak going!🤞 Catch up here: bit.ly/NM25Regions

🎉Congrats to the winner of #NephMadness 2025 Best Blogger: 🏆 Best Social Media Poster: @sarahkmels.bsky.social 🏆 Best Blogger: @hswapnil.medsky.social who wrote the commentary, "Renal Denervation in Hypertension: Fad or Fixture?" bit.ly/NM25Hiremath

🎉Congrats to the #NephMadness 2025 Best Party and Most Entries Group: 🏆 @hgmnefrologia.bsky.social 🏆 "This activity unites us as fellows, and we will continue to participate every year. We love seeing what other teams come up with, and the creativity from everyone truly shines.”

🎉Congrats to the #NephMadness 2025 Highest Scoring Team: 🏆 Gliflozistene 🏆 “We use NephMadness for educational purposes during our lunch meetings, where brackets offer quick but accurate takes on the hottest topics in nephrology. Thanks for an excellent competition!”

🎉Congrats to these #NephMadness 2025 Grand Prize Winners: 🏆 Top Medical Student: Linh Luong 🏆 Top Fellow Score: Claudia Villegas 🏆 Top Resident Score: @therealdrdub.bsky.social 🏆 Top Attending Score: @nephrowhitt.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to the #NephMadness 2025 Top Overall Score: 🏆 Yara Mouawad 🏆 She is a 2nd-year fellow at University of Texas Houston and wrote the Champion region of 2025: CAR-T for Autoimmune Diseases: bit.ly/NM25CART

#NephMadness 2025: The Winners bit.ly/NM25Winners

The “Terli Trio” delivered in this year’s #nkfclinicals NephMadness Fellow’s Debate!

Tomorrow #NephMadness Fellows Debate at 2:30 pm room 208!! Be there

🎙️ The 2nd annual #NephMadness tournament starts at 2:30 pm in room 208 at #NKFClinicals. Check out our interview with last year's winners here ➡️ buff.ly/6LQXS9h #nephrology #nephsky

Congrats to team terlipressin for winning the #NephMadness debate at #NKFClinicals

No complaints here. #NephMadness

Thanks @nephmadness.bsky.social and all the @nephjc.bsky.social crew for all the great learning with the podcasts and scouting reports! My brackets have never been even close before, so feels exciting 😊

#NephMadness 2025 Champion: CAR-T for Autoimmune Diseases bit.ly/NM25Champ @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social

Just a few more days until the #NephMadness Fellows Debate at #NKFClinicals this Friday in Boston

Congrats, Yara!! #NephMadness

TBF they believed in it! I wrote regions which won (2019) or were runners up (2020) but both years did not crack the top 100 even 🤦🏽‍♂️ #NephMadness Graphic from @nephroseeker.medsky.social

MALFEASANCE, I CRY! The writer of the CAR-T section has won #NephMadness ?!? STOP THE COUNT

#nephmadness Rank 5 needs a celebration!! www.tourneytopia.com/AJKD/NephMad... Thanks to @nephrologista.bsky.social for rekindling our interest in Nephmadness this year!!

The 13th #NephMadness crowned its winner this year: 👑 CAR-T in autoimmune disease Here are the finals of all the editions! It's said that with time, we get wiser: if you could, would you change any results? For some, the winners are incontestable, but is there any #BlueRibbonFail? 🎀💥

#NephMadness 2025 Champion: CAR-T for Autoimmune Diseases bit.ly/NM25Champ @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social

The giantest #BlueRibbonFail ajkdblog.org/2025/04/08/n... #Nephmadness but the BRP panel comments are fun to read. Well played! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSC...

Decent run in this years #nephmadness

just as big a #BlueRibbonFail as from #NephMadness 2019 when US #hypertension guidelines was champion, 👀🙄😂😂😀

just an embarrassing #BlueRibbonFail

Whoah The CAR-T cells underdog continues to roll on and over novel therapies for hypertension ajkdblog.org/2025/04/07/n... A true #NephMadness #BlueRibbonFail (But well done @melhoenig.bsky.social and @glombandit.bsky.social !)

But you know this #BlueRibbonFail panel revels in their random and capricious ignorant decision making @toates.bsky.social #NephMadness

@glombandit.bsky.social and Dr. Melanie Hoenig sitting in the lead! No perfect brackets remain. #Nephmadness I just can’t buy CAR-T and MCD diagnosis as the most important issues for nephrologists in the next 5 years. I wear my 875 out of 906 as a badge of honor 🎖️ #BlueRibbonFail

yes!, exactly!... I propose a re-do for another HD region for #NephMadness 2026... how about we take HDF against HDx (expanded HD) w/ MCO membrane?!? cc: @ajkd.bsky.social @nephrosparks.bsky.social

Hey #NephMadness This years winner should be… XENOTRANSPLANTATION (makes more sense the. The remaining two, so I made up my own) #NephSky Now at 4 months!! nyulangone.org/news/pig-kid...

We may be a leeeetle bit biased but MCD was robbed. Solved etiology for 90% of the most common peds GN w implications for targeted therapies, post-Tx recurrence… c’mon #NephMadness #BlueRibbonFail @tobias-b-huber.bsky.social

Congrats to the #NephMadness winners! 👑 👏 🥇Mel Hoenig and @glombandit.bsky.social 🔝Also, lots of familiar names in the top 10% @verner-venegas.bsky.social @basunephro.bsky.social @nephrowhitt.bsky.social @proximal-baxi.bsky.social @drmontomoli.bsky.social @arvindcanchi.bsky.social

🏆Team CAR-T for Autoimmune Diagnosis🏆 wins 5-4 against Team MCD Diagnosis and Pathogenesis BRP Comments: “I think that usually by the time we get to the final match up, the winner is obvious...but this final match up was one of the toughest choices of all time.” #NephMadness bit.ly/NM25Champ

How did the crowd vote? 22% for 🏆Team CAR-T for Autoimmune Diagnosis🏆 tied with 22% for Novel Drugs for Hypertension #NephMadness bit.ly/NM25Champ

My #NephMadness summary ✨Aiming for my best- managed 🔝 2% As broadly disputed, not choosing HDF was THE #BlueRibbonFail (not commenting about winner). I guess in my part of the world, we are not facing donors' obesity 🎭 For fun aimed for perfect 0- so close! www.tourneytopia.com/AJKD/NephMad...

Tagging #nephmadnessparty. We don’t have costumes or themed snacks, but we have good beer and elementary school recruits.

according to What-if Scenarios, it'll be jfgf if MCD is #NephMadness Champion or it'll be marius_altern if CAR-T is #NephMadness Champion. As per the comment of the latter, it was indeed "a good feeling." 😂😀 429 = CAR-T vs. 288 = MCD, as per #NephMadnessStats If MCD wins, outrage could ensure, 🤓😂😂

Thank you #NephMadness for some good news today

OMG, OMG, OMG! #MCD is the right kidney in #NephMadness!!! 😱 🤩 We’ll done @mallorydownie ! 😍 Excellent commentary @carafuentes_g ! Way to go #PedNeph 🧡 @IPNA_PedNeph @ASPNeph @Alanepe1 #NephroticSyndrome

#NephMadness 2025: The Left and Right Kidneys bit.ly/NM25Finalists @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social

The biggest #BlueRibbonFail of #NephMadness is CAR-T. Very cool immunology, perhaps useful in extremely severe autoimmunity, but overall impact on nephrology? Next to nil. Too toxic, too hard to scale.

Got to show off when you get this close #nephmadness 2025. www.tourneytopia.com/AJKD/NephMad... Despite the #blueribbon fails!!