Oxalate nephropathy: innocent bystander or primary driver of CKD
Skeleton Key Group Electrolyte Case 14: Salt-Wasting in a Newborn
Kidney Transplantation in Patients with HIV and ESKD
Urine Sediment of the Month: Isolated Lipiduria
Renal Fellow Network Readership Survey
NKF’s 52nd Annual Medical Symposium – Kidney Care: 2020 and Beyond – 13th November (FREE for fellows)
Kidney Biopsy of the Month: BK virus nephropathy
Who is afraid of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome? Severe hyponatremia – its limits, goals and clamps
Water Treatment for Hemodialysis
Dietary Habits as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner, said it best, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food“ George Bernard Shaw In the current coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many of us may…
Oxalate nephropathy: innocent bystander or primary driver of CKD
Oxalate is a terminal metabolite in humans. Glyoxylate becomes glycine and pyruvate via alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) action, and excess glyoxylate gets converted to oxalate by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and glycolate oxidase. Besides being derived endogenously through metabolism, oxalate…
Skeleton Key Group Electrolyte Case 14: Salt-Wasting in a Newborn
Welcome to the 14th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 40 – odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without…
Kidney Transplantation in Patients with HIV and ESKD
Antiretroviral therapy has had a significant impact on improving the survival of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with their survival now being similar to patients not infected with HIV. With improved long-term survival, the prevalence of…
Urine Sediment of the Month: Isolated Lipiduria
What is “isolated lipiduria”? The detection of urinary lipid droplets with a typical Maltese cross appearance in the absence of proteinuria or albuminuria. There are no reports or systematic analyses of this phenomenon, so this post reflects anecdotal…
Renal Fellow Network Readership Survey
Are you a medical professional who’s enjoyed the content on Renal Fellow Network? Which series have you most engaged with? What can RFN do differently? The Renal Fellow Network’s editors and faculty leads want to hear from you!…
NKF’s 52nd Annual Medical Symposium – Kidney Care: 2020 and Beyond – 13th November (FREE for fellows)
The 52nd Annual Medical Symposium, a bay area nephrology community tradition, is a day-long program that provides healthcare professionals with timely updates on CKD guidelines & standards, treatments, research and co-morbidities, so they may better care for and…
Kidney Biopsy of the Month: BK virus nephropathy
In 1971, a group of virologists in London first described a novel polyomavirus they discovered in the urine and urothelial cells of a kidney transplant recipient who had developed ureteric stenosis. Named after the patient it was first…
Who is afraid of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome? Severe hyponatremia – its limits, goals and clamps
From the early physiology courses in Medical School, everyone learns to be wary of rapidly correcting serum sodium in the event of hyponatremia if its duration is chronic or unknown. But was this concern always present? In the…
Water Treatment for Hemodialysis
I am often startled by the fact that patients are exposed to 120-200 L of dialysis solution during each dialysis treatment! Unsurprisingly then, patients on hemodialysis are particularly vulnerable to small molecular weight contaminants in the water used…