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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Introducing Women in Nephrology’s Fellow Leadership Institute! This is a one-year program designed for nephrology fellows (or post-doctoral fellows) to learn and practice leadership and career development skills that are typically not taught during fellowship. This is an…
Tazeen Rizvi, MDAdvocate Christ Medical CenterOak Lawn, IL Epidemiology: A Peripherally inserted Central Catheter (PICC) is a 50 to 60 cm long single, double, or triple lumen catheter, which is placed in a peripheral arm vein and terminates…
The influence of urine concentration on the cells we observe during urine microscopy is well known. Concentrated urine specimens with a high urine specific gravity (SG) preserve nucleated cellular morphology the best, however, some cellular structures (e.g.: erythrocytes)…
Dr. Subashri MohanasundaramAssistant ProfessorDepartment of NephrologyGovernment Thoothukudi Medical College & Hospital, India@happiedoc SGLT2 inhibitors: Though much of the limelight of SGLT2 inhibitors is rightly focused on kidney protection and heart protection, there is less focus on the various…
Dr. Subashri Mohanasundaram Assistant Professor Department of Nephrology Government Thoothukudi Medical College & Hospital, India @happiedoc In 1972, Bana et al, first described dialysis-related headaches, which typically occur a few hours after beginning dialysis in patients without a…
