Important new findings were recently published in relation to proteinuria and FSGS, which are definitely of interest to our community. First, the punch line: There is new evidence for a “circulating factor” in recurrent FSGS in a fascinating…
A young woman presented for altruistic kidney donor evaluation. She had no significant past medical history other than two normal prior pregnancies. Physical examination was unremarkable. A CT angiogram revealed bilateral irregularities of the renal arteries and a…
A few months back I was covering the inpatient consult service when one of our patients on peritoneal dialysis came in for an elective combined aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting. She had recently switched over…
Kenar Jhaveri and colleagues are conducting a survey looking to help further the understanding of the palliative care experience of current US internal medicine subspecialty fellows during their residency and fellowship training. If you’re interested, check it out…
Nate Hellman, the founder of this blog, was a personal friend. We trained together as MGH Renal Fellows. It has been three years since his passing. I often wonder how much he would have achieved by now. For…
The American Kidney Fund’s Calendar Kids Art Contest recognizes kids with kidney disease for their artistic talent and helps to increase awareness of kidney disease. The contest winners have been selected but help is needed to choose the…
The good people at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are doing a survey study of the quantity and quality of nephrology fellows’ end-of-life care education and their readiness to provide that care to the elderly. If…
As a medical student I was taught the CKD hypertension gospel straight from the good book of JNC VII: Thou shalt lower the blood pressure to less than 130/80! This was many years after David Bowe and Freddie…
Interesting article on chain donation in the NYT.
The latest entrant into the blogging community comes to us from CJASN in the form of their new eJournalClub. It’s a neat site, the editors choose an interesting article, put it up with an editorial and then have…
