Kidney Comics: Kidneys in the Stone Age
By Dr Momen Abbasi
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In Person KIDNEYcon 2023: 1 Full day of Critical Care Nephrology plus 2 Days of Workshops
KIDNEYcon 2023 is back in person in 2023 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Thursday April 20th to Saturday April 22, 2023. This is a must attend for all nephrology fellows, and attendings. This years conference will be focusing on…
The Bidirectional Impact of Climate Change on Kidney Health and Kidney Care
Anoushka Krishnan, MD Department of Nephrology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia “The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced”- Al Gore Climate change is rapidly making its presence felt across the…
Kidney Comics: Membranous Nephropathy
We are proud to announce a new series on RFN called Kidney Comics. This series is is led by Dr Momen Abbasi and will cover various topics in nephology. Let us know if you have any ideas or…
Side Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors
Kavitha Ramaswamy, MDNSMC intern 2022 Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have become the standard of care for primary care, nephrology, cardiology and endocrinology. It is imperative to know how they work and specifically side effects in order…
The Baggage of AV Access: Too Big a Load for an Overburdened Heart?
Maria Angela M. Matabang, MDLincoln Medical Center @AnjMatabang Acknowledgements: This post is part of a collaboration between The Renal Fellow Network and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), whose mission is to provide excellence in…
Skeleton Key Group Case #28: Mysterious Acidosis in Cancer
Welcome to the 28th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 50-odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. These are actual cases (without patient identifying information)…
Making Sense of Make (Major Adverse Kidney Events) After AKI
Sandhya Suresh, MD DrNB@SandyrvsdavNSMC 2022Department of Nephrology, SRIHER, Chennai, India Introduction: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) affects nearly 13.3 million people every year with 85% of the cases occurring in the low and middle-income countries. Several epidemiological studies have…
Does Creation of an AVF Reduce Progression of Kidney Disease?
Sindhuri Prakash-Polet, MD, PhD & Sean Kalloo, MD, MBA, FASDIN Fellow in Interventional Nephrology & Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Radiology), Columbia University Medical Center @sprakashpolet Introduction: Efforts to find therapeutics and interventions that can modify the trajectory…