See below for details on a very interesting looking course for Renal Fellows: We are excited to introduce a new innovative program available to Nephrology Fellows – Nephrology Business Leadership University (NBLuniv.com) NBLU is a unique week long program…
A 62 year old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy (EF 35%) and CKD (baseline Cr ~3 mg/dl) had a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. EMS arrived within 3 minutes. He received CPR and was shocked out of ventricular fibrillation (VF). …
Bleeding is a common complication of liver disease and given that we as nephrologists are sometimes asked to place lines or perform renal biopsies on patients with cirrhosis, it is important to know the physiology behind the reason…
At renal grand rounds this week, I presented a case of a gentleman who presented with fevers, confusion, and lower extremity pain during dialysis. The patient would spike low grade fevers pre-HD and then fevers up to 105…
Apologies to Ben for the delay in posting about this. Ben Abelow is an MD in New Haven who has long had an interest in teaching basic acid base physiology. In the late 1990s he published a primer…
Nephrology was consulted by the general medicine service for AKI in an elderly man with endocarditis. He had MSSA bacteremia for which he was being treated with oxacillin and rifampin. There was no report of rash or recent…
The American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology (CSN) fellowship program application is open for next year’s cycle. It provides $80,000 per year for clinical research. Many distinguished nephrologists are prior recipients of this award including Gary Curhan,…
Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) has resurfaced as an important cause of kidney injury in the hospitalized patient, particularly because of recent evidence implicating such common medications as proton pump inhibitors. Though most current cases of AIN have been…
The International Society for Hemodialysis’ Hemodialysis University is a two-day course that will be taking place in Chicago Sept 9-10th this year. The course covers many issues current in dialysis and of particular interest are talks on HIF stabilizers for anemia…
As I prepare for my nephrology fellowship, I find that in preparing my didactics as a chief resident, I selfishly (and perhaps subconsciously) include kidney-related teaching wherever I can. During one such moment, I came across a something I…
