The ASN has out together this video announcing a new initiative to attract trainees to nephrology early in their careers. This would involve sponsoring medical students to attend the week-long origins of renal physiology course in Bar Harbor,…
It’s an important anniversary for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and as a result there are events planned in all departments of the hospital over the next year. Not to be left out, the Renal Division invited some…
The American Journal of Kidney Diseases published a fascinating letter this month from Jochen Reiser’s group concerning the transmission of the suPAR from a mother to her newborn infant. The patient in question had a history of primary…
Yet another manuscript evaluating fluids for IV replacement was published in JAMA this week underscoring the importance and controversial nature of the topic. A large meta-analysis involving 10,868 patients from 38 trials showed that hydroxyethyl starch (HES) was…
This month’s eJournal club concerns early initiation and withdrawal from dialysis in Canada. Over the last 20 years, there has been a move towards starting people on dialysis earlier, at least when this is defined in terms of…
On April 27th 2013, a course on glomerular disease will take place at the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. This course is being organized by Dr Kenar Jhaveri who is well known to the blogging…
These days, the proliferation of medical journals makes it difficult to keep up with all the changes in our field. There are a number of means that people employ to manage their reading. I personally use google reader…
A few years ago, a unit that I worked at started using hemodiafiltration (HDF) routinely for the first time. Prior to starting our patients, we visited another unit where they had been using HDF for a few years…
Interesting paper this month in JAMA about post-marketing studies of adverse drug effects. Randomized controlled trials are obviously the gold standard for the detection of common adverse events related to treatment. The problem is that, if an adverse…
To follow up on one of Nate’s posts from 2010, hair grows not only on your skin. He describes a glomerular capillary to be hairy. Glycocalyx, a hairy structure attached to the glomerular endothelium, is a mixture of…
