Urine Sediment of the Month: Waxy Casts
“Let’s Talk About Peritoneal Dialysis” Post 8: EPS, A Feared Complication of PD
Focus on POCUN: Shadows and Twinkling Stones
Landmark Trials in Lupus Nephritis: Look How Far We’ve Come!
Registration for KIDNEYcon 2019 is Open
Kidney Biopsy of the Month: What is Normal?
Conferences
How to Examine a Vascular Access: Part 1 The Basics
Introduction Physical examination is a quick and inexpensive way of diagnosing stenosis and other causes of vascular access dysfunction. Its ability to reliably detect stenotic lesions compared with ultrasound and angiography (the gold standard), has repeatedly been demonstrated….
DNAJB9: Demystifying Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis
Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (GN) is a rare disease which accounts for about 1% of all kidney biopsies. The very first description of the disease was published by Rosenmann and Eliakim in 1977. They described a patient with nephrotic syndrome…
Kidney Biopsy of the Month- The Tubulointerstitium Part 1: The Cortex
The tubulointerstitium of the kidney is broadly divided into the cortex and the medulla. These are extremely important components of the kidney, which can show a broad spectrum of changes ranging from subtle to significant, in both acute…
My Journey from Nicaragua to London to Study CKDu: 5 Lessons Learned
I grew up in León city, Nicaragua. León is known locally as the home of the oldest university in Nicaragua and it is located very close to the Pacific Ocean. The lack of a formal education makes it…
Five Minutes to a Better Diagnosis: What Your Pathologist Needs to Know
One of my mentors, Dr. Fred Silva, frequently reminds us that “the kidney has a limited number of ways to respond to an innumerable number of injuries”. For this reason, studying kidney pathology is challenging and fun. Since…
Landmark Trials in ADPKD: Close, But No Cigar
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common genetic disease, affecting 1/400 to 1/1000 live births and is the fourth leading cause of end-stage kidney disease in adults. Both types of ADPKD (1 and 2) typically have…
UK and Ireland Nephrology SpR Club Spring Meeting-Updates in Nephrology
The UK Renal Association SpR Club and Kidney Research UK are delighted to invite you to their Spring meeting for 2019 – ‘Updates in Nephrology’. This will be held on March 16-17th in the beautiful city of Edinburgh….
What a Nephrologist Should Know about Eating Disorders
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by caloric restriction and pathologic behaviors to achieve weight loss, such as excessive exercising, dieting, or purging (e.g. abuse of laxatives or diuretics, surreptitious vomiting). Patients with bulimia nervosa engage in purging behaviors and…
Still Hyperkalemic…Even After A Kidney Transplant
Hyperkalemia is a common complication after organ transplantation, that resultins from several factors, including medications. Although the exact mechanism is unclear, calcineurin inhibitors (CNI), such as tacrolimus and cyclosporin, have been hypothesized to cause hyperkalemia through inhibitory effects…
ACKD and RCC in ESKD: To Screen or Not to Screen
Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease in the ESKD population Acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) was first described in 1847 by Simon while studying patients with glomerulonephritis (Bright’s Disease). However, it was not until 1977 when ACKD was “rediscovered” by…
