Orhan EfeNephrology FellowBrigham Womens Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital ProgramHarvard Medical School Background and Basics The goal of transplant evaluation is to identify suitable candidates who would benefit from transplantation. To accomplish this goal, a multidisciplinary team is required. This…
NephMadness has begun! Submit your 2021 NephMadness picks here.We’ll review some NephMadness basics below and leak our picks for this year. What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an educational game played out across social media, modeled after the US college basketball…
Eduardo R Argaiz @ArgaizR, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico It is well known that congestion is the primary reason for hospitalization in patients with acute heart failure and an important target for therapy….
Definition A group of podocytopathies (of varying etiologies) share a common morphologic feature of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), typically with moderate to heavy proteinuria. The term “sclerosis” means healing and it is characterized by accumulation of glomerular collagen…
Drug dosage adjustment can be a challenge in patients who develop acute kidney injury (AKI). It is suggested to adopt “a start low and go slow” approach when there is an uncertainty in drug dosing or pharmacokinetics. The…
In the previous post, we talked about the Doppler effect, color flow and power Doppler modes. Now let us focus on the spectral Doppler. Spectral Doppler enables us to measure the velocity of blood flow as well as…
In 1971, a group of virologists in London first described a novel polyomavirus they discovered in the urine and urothelial cells of a kidney transplant recipient who had developed ureteric stenosis. Named after the patient it was first…
Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is characterized by microvascular endothelial injury and thrombosis, presenting both clinically and histopathologically in two main forms; acute and chronic TMA. Etiology and Clinical Presentation Table 1: Etiologies of TMA classified according to clinical presentation…
The greyscale ultrasound image is derived from the amplitude information in the echoes returning from a structure/organ. Rapidly moving structures such as red blood cells within blood vessels make very low amplitude echoes that cannot be displayed. That…
Renal Fellow Network teams up with the POCUS Journal to bring you: POCUS Case Reports—Kidney Care Edition. Trainees are encouraged to submit interesting or novel cases highlighting the use of clinician-performed ultrasound in any aspect of the care…
