Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

Popa C, John P, Verma P, Ali S, Shah S. Kidney failure and dialysis in pregnancy. Kidney Medicine. December 2024

Rossi AP, Katz-Greenberg G, Coscia L, Brady CW, Doligalski C, Irani RA, Matas A, Shah S, Lentine KL. Living Donation and Pregnancy-Related Complications: State of the Evidence and Call To Action for Improved Risk Assessment. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Sep 20;. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000593. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39413216.

Gholizadeh Ghozloujeh Z, Singh T, Jhaveri KD, Shah S, Lerma E, Abdipour A, Norouzi S. Lupus nephritis: management challenges during pregnancy. Front Nephrol. 2024;4:1390783. doi: 10.3389/fneph.2024.1390783. eCollection 2024. Review. PubMed PMID: 38895665; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11183321.

Shah S, Christianson AL, Meganathan K, Leonard AC, Crews DC, Rubinstein J, Mitsnefes MM, Schauer DP, Thakar CV. Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Kidney Failure. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 May 7;13(9):e029691. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.123.029691. Epub 2024 May 3. PubMed PMID: 38700013.

Shankar M, Ali S, Shah S. Women's health and kidney protective medications. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2024 May 6;. doi: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000001000. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38700904; NIHMSID:NIHMS1989440.

Shah S, Weinhandl E, Gupta N, Leonard AC, Christianson AL, Thakar CV. Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients on Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis. Kidney360. 2024 Feb 1;5(2):205-215. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000360. Epub 2024 Feb 1. PubMed PMID: 38297433; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10914201.

Shah S, Ng JH, Leonard AC, Harrison K, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Thakar CV. A clinical score to predict recovery in end-stage kidney disease due to acute kidney injury. Clin Kidney J. 2024 May;17(5):sfae085. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfae085. eCollection 2024 May. PubMed PMID: 38726213; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11079670.

Shah S, Weinhandl E, Leonard AC, Rachwal B, Verma P, Perl J, Christianson AL. Pregnancies in Women With Kidney Failure on Home Dialysis in the United States. Kidney Int Rep. 2024 Apr;9(4):907-918. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2024.01.045. eCollection 2024 Apr. PubMed PMID: 38765588; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11101807.

Shah S, Katz-Greenberg G, Gudsoorkar P, Vyas P*, Barhorst S, Verma P, Pensak M. Contraceptive Use in Females With Advanced CKD: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2023 Dec;5(12):100738. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100738. eCollection 2023 Dec. PubMed PMID: 38034510; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10684388.

Chang DH, Dumanski SM, Brennand EA, Ruzycki SM, Ramage K, Gantar T, Shah S, Ahmed SB. Female Reproductive Health and Contraception Use in CKD: An International Mixed-Methods Study. Kidney Med. 2023 Oct;5(10):100713. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100713. eCollection 2023 Oct. PubMed PMID: 37719717; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10502408.

Bajpai D, Popa C, Verma P, Dumanski S, Shah S. Evaluation and Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Kidney360. 2023 Oct 1;4(10):1512-1525. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000228. Review. PubMed PMID: 37526641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10617800.

Davidson B, Bajpai D, Shah S, Jones E, Okyere P, Wearne N, Gumber R, Saxena N, Osafo C. Pregnancy-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Low-Resource Settings: Progress Over the Last Decade. Semin Nephrol. 2023 Apr 1;42(5):151317. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2023.151317. PMID: 37011566.

Shah S, Gupta N, Christianson AL, Meganathan K, Leonard AC, Thakar CV. Sex and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Home Hemodialysis Mortality. Kidney360. 2023 Feb 1;4(2):206-216. doi: 10.34067/KID.0005712022. Epub 2022 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 36821612; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10103461.

Shah S, Verma P. Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury: Do We Know What to Do?. Nephron. 2023;147(1):35-38. doi: 10.1159/000525492. Epub 2022 Jul 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 35793648; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9816347.

Gumber R, Shah S. Reproductive Health in Women with Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Dec;17(12):1716-1718. doi: 10.2215/CJN.12461022. Epub 2022 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 36418039; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9718017.

Salas MAP, Chua E, Rossi A, Shah S, Katz-Greenberg G, Coscia L, Sawinski D, Adey D. Sex and gender disparity in kidney transplantation: Historical and future perspectives. Clin Transplant. 2022 Dec;36(12):e14814. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14814. Epub 2022 Sep 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 36097741; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10069947.

Adejare AA, Duncan HJ, Motz RG, Shah S, Thakar CV, Eckman MH. Implementing a Health Utility Assessment Platform to Acquire Health Utilities in a Hemodialysis Outpatient Setting: Feasibility Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Jul 28;6(7):e33562. doi: 10.2196/33562. PubMed PMID: 35900828; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9377480.

Yadav A, Salas MAP, Coscia L, Basu A, Rossi AP, Sawinski D, Shah S. Acute kidney injury during pregnancy in kidney transplant recipients. Clin Transplant. 2022 May;36(5):e14668. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14668. Epub 2022 Apr 17. Review. PubMed PMID: 35396888; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9285565.

Shah S, Christianson AL, Bumb S, Verma P. Contraceptive use among women with kidney transplants in the United States. J Nephrol. 2022 Mar;35(2):629-638. doi: 10.1007/s40620-021-01181-0. Epub 2021 Nov 13. PubMed PMID: 34773601; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8926989.

Katz-Greenberg G, Shah S. Sex and Gender Differences in Kidney Transplantation. Semin Nephrol. 2022 Mar;42(2):219-229. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2022.04.011. Review. PubMed PMID: 35718368; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10065984.

Taber-Hight E, Shah S. Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2020 Nov;27(6):455-460. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2020.06.002. Review. PubMed PMID: 33328061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7751749.

Shah S. Women's Health and Kidney Disease. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2020 Nov;27(6):447-448. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2020.11.002. PubMed PMID: 33328059.

Shah S, Christianson AL, Thakar CV, Kramer S, Meganathan K, Leonard AC. Contraceptive Use Among Women With End-Stage Kidney Disease on Dialysis in the United States. Kidney Med. 2020 Nov-Dec;2(6):707-715.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.08.010. eCollection 2020 Nov-Dec. PubMed PMID: 33319196; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7729239.

Shah S, Sparks MA. COVID-19 and the Kidney Community: Coalescing in Crisis. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2020 Sep;27(5):362-364. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2020.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 26. PubMed PMID: 33308500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7586923.

Bajpai D, Shah S. COVID-19 Pandemic and Pregnancy in Kidney Disease. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2020 Sep;27(5):397-403. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2020.08.005. Epub 2020 Aug 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 33308505; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7413201.

Shah S, Leonard AC, Harrison K, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Thakar CV. Mortality and Recovery Associated with Kidney Failure due to Acute Kidney Injury. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Jul 1;15(7):995-1006. doi: 10.2215/CJN.11200919. Epub 2020 Jun 17. PubMed PMID: 32554731; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7341787.

Shah S, Chan MR, Lee T. Perspectives in Individualizing Solutions for Dialysis Access. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2020 May;27(3):183-190. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2020.03.004. Review. PubMed PMID: 32891301; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7479637.

Shah S, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Harrison K, Leonard AC, Thakar CV. Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury in the United States: Clinical Outcomes and Health Care Utilization. Am J Nephrol. 2020;51(3):216-226. doi: 10.1159/000505894. Epub 2020 Feb 11. PubMed PMID: 32045905; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7158232.

Shah S, Christianson AL, Meganathan K, Leonard AC, Schauer DP, Thakar CV. Racial Differences and Factors Associated with Pregnancy in ESKD Patients on Dialysis in the United States. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Dec;30(12):2437-2448. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019030234. Epub 2019 Sep 25. PubMed PMID: 31554657; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6900804.

Shah S, Christianson AL, Verma P, Meganathan K, Leonard AC, Schauer DP, Thakar CV. Racial disparities and factors associated with pregnancy in kidney transplant recipients in the United States. PLoS One. 2019;14(8):e0220916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220916. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31398243; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6688836.

Shah S, Thakar CV. Diabetes/Kidney/Heart Disease. Cardiol Clin. 2019 Aug;37(3):ix-x. doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2019.04.011. Epub 2019 May 15. PubMed PMID: 31279429.

Shah S, Gupta A. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Cardiol Clin. 2019 Aug;37(3):345-354. doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2019.04.008. Epub 2019 May 8. Review. PubMed PMID: 31279428.

Shah S, Leonard AC, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Thakar CV. Temporal Trends in Incident Mortality in Dialysis Patients: Focus on Sex and Racial Disparities. Am J Nephrol. 2019;49(3):241-253. doi: 10.1159/000497446. Epub 2019 Feb 28. PubMed PMID: 30820004.

Shah S, Topf J. Mentorship in the Digital Age: Nephrology Social Media Collective Internship. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Feb 7;14(2):294-296. doi: 10.2215/CJN.09970818. Epub 2019 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 30647092; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6390911.

Shah S, Venkatesan RL, Gupta A, Sanghavi MK, Welge J, Johansen R, Kean EB, Kaur T, Gupta A, Grant TJ, Verma P. Pregnancy outcomes in women with kidney transplant: Metaanalysis and systematic review. BMC Nephrol. 2019 Jan 23;20(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s12882-019-1213-5. PubMed PMID: 30674290; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6345071.

Shah S, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Leonard AC, Thakar CV. Pre-dialysis acute care hospitalizations and clinical outcomes in dialysis patients. PLoS One. 2019;14(1):e0209578. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209578. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 30650094; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6334901

Gupta A, Kuperman M, Shah S. N-methylamphetamine ("Crystal Meth")-Associated Acute Renal Cortical Necrosis. Kidney Int Rep. 2018 Nov;3(6):1473-1476. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2018.07.003. eCollection 2018 Nov. PubMed PMID: 30450474; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6224663.

Shah S, Leonard AC, Meganathan K, Christianson AL, Thakar CV. Gender and Racial Disparities in Initial Hemodialysis Access and Outcomes in Incident End-Stage Renal Disease Patients. Am J Nephrol. 2018;48(1):4-14. doi: 10.1159/000490624. Epub 2018 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 29990994; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6159828.

Lee T, Shah S**, Leonard AC, Parikh P, Thakar CV. Acute Kidney Injury before Dialysis Initiation Predicts Adverse Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients. Am J Nephrol. 2018;47(6):427-434. doi: 10.1159/000489949. Epub 2018 Jun 7. PubMed PMID: 29879718.

**Co-first author

Colbert GB, Topf J, Jhaveri KD, Oates T, Rheault MN, Shah S, Hiremath S, Sparks MA. The Social Media Revolution in Nephrology Education. Kidney Int Rep. 2018 May;3(3):519-529. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2018.02.003. eCollection 2018 May. Review. PubMed PMID: 29854960; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5976821.

Shah S, Leonard AC, Thakar CV. Functional status, pre-dialysis health and clinical outcomes among elderly dialysis patients. BMC Nephrol. 2018 Apr 27;19(1):100. doi: 10.1186/s12882-018-0898-1. PubMed PMID: 29703177; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5924501.

Kamal M, Govil A, Anand M, Abu Jawdeh BG, Shah S. Severe BK polyomavirus-induced hemorrhagic cystitis in a kidney transplant recipient with the absence of renal allograft involvement. Transpl Infect Dis. 2018 Feb;20(1). doi: 10.1111/tid.12814. Epub 2018 Jan 16. PubMed PMID: 29143415.

Shah S, Lankowsky B, Gao T, Zaky Z, Stephany BR, Poggio ED. Postdonation Anemia in Living Kidney Donors. Transplant Proc. 2017 Oct;49(8):1733-1738. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.06.034. PubMed PMID: 28923617.

Shah S. Is pregnancy safe after kidney transplant? Cleve Clin J Med. 2017 Oct;84(10):750-752. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.84a.16047. Review. PubMed PMID: 28985170.

Kamal M, Apewokin S, Anand M, Abu Jawdeh BG, Govil A, Sheikh MM, Shah S. Late-Onset Allograft Aspergillosis in an HIV-Positive Renal Transplant Recipient: A Case Report. Transplant Proc. 2017 Sep;49(7):1570-1573. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.05.003. PubMed PMID: 28838442.

Shah S, Stevens TM, Agarwal G. Quiz: Acute Kidney Injury and Pancytopenia 5 Months After Kidney Transplantation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2017 Feb;69(2):A14-A17. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2016.07.038. PubMed PMID: 28115064.

Shah S, Verma P. Overview of Pregnancy in Renal Transplant Patients. Int J Nephrol. 2016;2016:4539342. doi: 10.1155/2016/4539342. Epub 2016 Nov 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 28042483; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5155089.

Shah S, Calle JC. Dietary and medical management of recurrent nephrolithiasis. Cleve Clin J Med. 2016 Jun;83(6):463-71. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.15089. Review. PubMed PMID: 27281259.

Sexton S, Tulowitzki R, Jones CA, Shah S, Hajduczok G, Gross KW, Panesar M. Involvement of the renin-angiotensin system in the development of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis-like lesions in the RenTag mouse model. Clin Exp Nephrol. 2016 Apr;20(2):162-8. doi: 10.1007/s10157-015-1141-z. Epub 2015 Jul 3. PubMed PMID: 26138357; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5497566.

Kohok DD, Shah S, Kumar R, Venuto L, Gudleski G, Venuto R. Interventions to reduce clinical inertia in cardiac risk factor management in renal transplant recipients. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2014 Feb;16(2):127-32. doi: 10.1111/jch.12249. Epub 2014 Jan 17. PubMed PMID: 24433451; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8031565.

Chopra T, Kandukurti K, Shah S, Ahmed R, Panesar M. Understanding nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. Int J Nephrol. 2012;2012:912189. doi: 10.1155/2012/912189. Epub 2012 Nov 4. PubMed PMID: 23193473; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501952.

Shah S, Weber-Shrikant E, Panesar M. Discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy causing progression to end-stage renal disease in an HIV patient diagnosed with immune complex 'lupus-like' glomerulonephritis. Clin Kidney J. 2012 Jun;5(3):276-8. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfs025. Epub 2012 Mar 29. PubMed PMID: 26069785; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4400503

Book Chapters

Gupta M, Verma P, Shah S. The patient with kidney disease and pregnancy. Manual of Nephrology. Book Chapter. Editor: Edgar Lerma (accepted).

Parikh N, Verma P, Shah S. Kidney Transplantation and Pregnancy. Disorders of Kidney in Pregnancy. Book Chapter. Editor: Priti Meena (accepted)

Shankar M, Shah S. Kidney Disease and Hypertension in Pregnancy. Nephrology Secrets. Book Chapter. Editor: Matthew Sparks (accepted).

He L, Parikh N, Shah S, Edens C. Renal disease in the Pregnant Patient with Rheumatic Disease. Interdisciplinary Rheumatology and Nephrology. Book chapter. Editors: Anisha Dua, Karina Torralba, Duvuru Geetha (accepted).

Bajpai D, Anandh U, Shah S. Pregnancy in renal replacement therapy: Dialysis and Transplantation. Current Progress in Nephrology. Book chapter. Editors: Kasi Visvewaran and Claudio Ponticelli. May 2022.

Lucas A, Shah S. Gender disparity and women’s health in nephrology. Psychonephrology. Editor: Ana Hategan. October 2021.

Norouzi S, Yoon J, Pour A, Shah S. Acute kidney disease in pregnancy. Issues in Acute Kidney Injury. Issues in Kidney Disease. Editor: Ahmed Awan. September 2021.

Sharma M, Shah S. Pregnancy and chronic kidney disease. Issues in Kidney Disease- Chronic Kidney Disease. Editors: Samaya Anumudu, Stephen Fadham. September 2021.

Shah S. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. Obstetric and Gynecologic Nephrology: Women’s Health Issues in Patients with Kidney Disease. Editors: Mala Sachdeva, Ilene Miller. October 2019.

Editor (Journals, Books)

Shah S, Luyckx V (guest editors). Issue: Health Disparities in Kidney Disease – A Global Perspective. Advances in Kidney Disease and Health. January 2025.

Shah S, Rangaswami J (guest editors). Issue: Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Disorder. Clinical Cardiology. December 2024.

Shah S (guest editor). Issue: Women’s Health and Kidney Disease. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. November 2020.

Shah S, Sparks M (guest editors). Issue: COVID-19 and Kidney Disease. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. September 2020.

Shah S, Thakar C (guest editors). Issue: Heart and Kidney Connection. Clinical Cardiology. August 2019.