Pain management in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is complex. Widely used analgesics like opioids, NSAIDs and gabapentinoids may directly or indirectly result in acute or chronic kidney disease. Many opioids (e.g. morphine) accumulate in the body…
During a night call in my first year of nephrology fellowship, I was asked a question that I had never heard before: ‘What do we do when we see black effluent draining out of the peritoneal dialysis (PD)…
NephMadness has begun! Submit your 2025 NephMadness picks here. We’ll review some NephMadness basics below and leak our picks for this year. What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an educational game played out across social media, modeled after…
