Dr. Awais Zaka, MD, FACP

03/12/2025

If you have high blood pressure you must check your kidneys!

02/12/2025

Does foamy urine always means proteinuria?

01/12/2025

Many kidney disease patients fail to gain the benefits of these newer drugs because they give in to the myths and fears surrounding these medications. True, these drugs bring some bodily changes in the kidney patients, and lead, occasionally, to serious side effects.

But not using these medicines is hardly the reasonable thing to do. The best course of action instead should be a complete knowledge of these drugs and their adverse effects.

The goal of today's video is to educate you about this medicine, its potential, and its side effects. In addition, I will explain my personal method of using these drugs in my patients.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - How do I use SGLT 2 drugs in my patients?
04:06 - Body changes with SGLT 2 drugs
05:03 - Side effects of SGLT 2 drugs
08:07 - Summary

Many kidney disease patients fail to gain the benefits of these newer drugs because they give in to the myths and fears surrounding these medications. True, ...

28/11/2025

SGLT-2 inhibitors are no less than a miracle medicine for kidney disease. Many kidney patients remain confused about this new class of drugs. Since they were initially marketed as diabetes medicines, this label has stuck in people's minds who believe that these medicines are for diabetes alone.

However, in the last decade, these drugs have been extensively researched for other uses such as heart and kidney disease.

This video explains the history of SGLT-2 inhibitors and the expansion of their use in systemic diseases like heart disease, kidney disease, and gout.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:04 - What are SGLT-2 Inhibitors?
02:09 - Story of SGLT-2 Inhibitors
03:50 - Research on SGLT-2 Inhibitors
06:02 - Uses of SGLT-2 Inhibitors
07:34 - My experience with SGLT-2 Inhibitors

SGLT-2 inhibitors are no less than a miracle medicine for kidney disease. Many kidney patients remain confused about this new class of drugs. Since they were...

25/11/2025

Why is your blood pressure higher in the winter?

22/11/2025

Our charity is not doing good to our healthcare!

21/11/2025

Kidney disease is a life-altering diagnosis. Many patients find it hard to accept that they have kidney disease. Therefore, they repeat the serum creatinine test again and again, hoping that their first elevated creatinine was a lab error. Secondly, creatinine becomes less reliable in some cases, such as in the weak, the muscular, and the elderly.

In all these scenarios, we now have a new test that has proven to be more reliable than creatinine.

This video explains how creatinine and cystatin C differ and in what scenarios each is more useful than the other.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - Creatinine Vs Cystatin C
04:41 - Limitations of Creatinine
06:22 - Uses and limitations of Cystatin C
08:25 - Summary

Kidney disease is a life-altering diagnosis. Many patients find it hard to accept that they have kidney disease. Therefore, they repeat the serum creatinine ...

20/11/2025

Is recovery from dialysis possible?

17/11/2025

Proteinuria is a diverse and complex topic, and patients with kidney disease who have proteinuria constantly come up with more questions as treatment progresses. A crucial question is how long it takes for proteinuria to improve.

Not knowing the answer to this question, many patients abandon treatment.

This video explains, using 6 typical cases, the ins and outs of the proteinuria mechanism and what factors affect the treatment of proteinuria.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:40 - What causes proteinuria?
04:50 - Patient 1
06:00 - Patient 2
06:29 - Patient 3
07:03 - Patient 4
08:09 - Patient 5
09:13 - Patient 6
10:03 - Conclusion

Proteinuria is a diverse and complex topic, and patients with kidney disease who have proteinuria constantly come up with more questions as treatment progres...

14/11/2025

Autosomal domminant polycystic kidney disease roughly affects more than 1 million people in Pakistan. Despite such huge population of patients, we lack local literature on the nature of this disease. Furthermore, patients lean toward traditional dangerous treatments when they learn that modern medicine provides no hope for ADPKD patients.

This risky move makes our ADPKD patients speeds up their diseaes progression more rapidly than the disease naturally does.

This episodes explains the latest guidelines on ADPKD, inviting patients and doctors to embrace the newer diagnostic and therapeutic tools, creating a safe environment for treating such patients using evidence-based guidelines and protecting them, their kidneys, and their families from the hawks.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - What is Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
03:11 - Diagnosis
05:49 - Treatment
08:53 - Prognosis
09:25 - Lifestyle
11:01 - Conclusion

Autosomal domminant polycystic kidney disease roughly affects more than 1 million people in Pakistan. Despite such huge population of patients, we lack local...

13/11/2025

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease updates!

11/11/2025

Proteinuria is usually not due to kidney stones!