A 36yr old woman with a history of PCKD was referred for surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism. She had a history of two prior failed kidney transplants following which she had been on dialysis for more than 10 years….
This month’s eJournal club concerns a paper published by a fellow from our institution that attempts to get to the bottom of an interesting question: in patients with a high interdialytic weight gain (IDWG), is the dialysis session…
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are organizing a CME event: “Contoversies in Kidney Disease” aimed at attending nephrologists and fellows on September 13th 2013. This course will cover a broad range of topics of interest to…
I recently received an inpatient consultation to see a CKD 5D patient. The reason for consult, as is mostly the case with dialysis patients was that he “needs hemodialysis”. This dialysis patient wasn’t the average bear though. He…
This was an interesting case and all those who responded correctly identified that the patient had bowel pathology. However, only one person figured out that the issue was an ileostomy. This patient had a low urine volume and…
I recently saw an interesting case series published in CJASN where they reported four cases of oliguric AKI associated with synthetic cannabinoids use. Renal biopsy revealed acute tubular injury in three of them and calcium oxalate crystals in…
Currently there is huge variation in the number patients receiving a kidney transplant at the time of their liver transplant across the US; Combined Liver Kidney Transplant (CLK). The rate of good quality (standard criteria) kidneys being transplanted…
A 65yo man was reviewed in the clinic for assessment of kidney stones. He has a history of stones for at least 8 years and has been passing small calculi on a regular basis for the last few…
It’s the time of the year again to start thinking about travel to the ASN annual meeting in Atlanta. Thankfully, in this time of limited travel budgets and sequestration, the ASN offers a number of travel awards that…
A young woman with h/o polysubstance abuse and seizures was admitted to hospital with status epilepticus. She was treated with a propofol infusion at 5mg/kg/hr which was maintained due to perceived continuing seizure activity. On hospital day 5,…
