Alimentary Azotemia?
I am currently a clinical fellow, slogging through another consult month. As I am sure many of you have experienced, consult questions often come in batches. At least three times this week we have been called to see…
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I had the opportunity to talk to Nate on several occasions when he would moonlight and I would be burning the midnight oil on call. Our conversations would run the gamut from our families, to life as a…
Revealed: my “covert” project with Nate a.k.a TRP channels in the kidney
Nate Hellman’s bench was three benches down from my lab. Nate and I trained together as clinical fellows. He and I had also brainstormed on research projects involving TRP channels and kidney disease. TRP channels are my research…
Hydrothorax in periteonal dialysis patients
In patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis, hydrothorax is defined as the presence of peritoneal dialysate fluid in the pleural cavity. This PD complication has an incidence of high glucose concentration and a variable cell count. Patients diagnosed with a…
Familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy
I recently saw my first patient formally diagnosed with familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (FJHN), and since I had little prior knowledge about this condition, I decided to read up. Apparently, FJHN is more common than we think, and…
A second look at dilantin
The first time phenytoin was addressed as a blog on this site was on the one year anniversary of the inauguration of the RFN. I’d just like to bring it up again, because a question pertaining to phenytoin…
The differential diagnosis of syndromes involving hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, and hypertension
While there are a number of conditions which can cause the combination of hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis there are a limited number of disease processes which lead to hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, AND hypertension. In order to have hypertension…