2024 NephMadness Tournament Challenge: Bracket Submissions Due March 31st!
Continuous renal replacement therapy Education Module
Applications open for the WIN Fellow School for Leadership Education
American Transplant Congress 2024: Medical Student & Resident Travel Grant Applications Due 3/11
High Output Cardiac Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension in Kidney Transplant Recipients
The first annual NephMadness Invitation Tournament (NIT) is coming to the National Kidney Foundation 2024 Spring Clinical Meeting (SCM) in Long Beach, CA!
Skeleton Key Group Case #32: Hitting the Reset Button on Hyponatremia
2024 NephSIM Nephrons: Applications Due 11/15
Skeleton Key Case #31: Paralyzing Potassium
Pathology of COVID-19 in the Kidney
Patrick VostersMedical Student, Medical College of Wisconsin – Green Bay The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic constitutes one of the most disruptive events in recent history. Amidst the pathological, political, and social turmoil, the kidney was not spared….
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…
Headaches During Dialysis: A Brief Review
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…
The POCUS Journal Kidney Care Edition
It’s been a year and a half since put out the call for cases for a compendium of point of care ultrasound topics for nephrologists in collaboration with The POCUS Journal. We had an overwhelming response from the…
Point of Care Ultrasound for Nephrologists: Establishing Use Cases and Building the Evidence for Tomorrow
Check out an entire issue of Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease devoted to “Point-of-Care Ultrasound.” This issue was inspired by the growing body of young nephrologists who have become interested in using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to improve outcomes…
DKA in Patients on Dialysis and Anuria: Pathophysiology, Pearls, and Pitfalls
Simon Smith, MDInternQueen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK Jamie Willows, MDRenal fellowFreeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a well recognised complication of diabetes when insulin supply cannot meet demand. To briefly recap the familiar pathophysiology:…
Pickle Juice for Dialysis-related Muscle Cramps: Fact or Myth?
Shweta Shah, MDAssistant ProfessorRenal Section, Department of PediatricsTexas Children’s Hospital@nefron1310 I recently came across a tweet about the use of mustard for dialysis cramps. I had never heard of my patients using this remedy for their muscle cramps…
Body Fluid Regulation from Microgravity to Gravity – Is Aestivation the Key Player?
Mythri Shankar, MD, DNBAssistant Professor of NephrologyInstitute of Nephrourology, Bengaluru, India@nephromythri Yuri Gagarin was the first human to leave earth in the year 1961. Since then over 500 astronauts and cosmonauts have visited space. During the initial days,…
Flight Delayed: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Shaped Me as a Resident Physician
Sai Santhoshini Achi, MDInternal Medicine Resident at Harlem Hospital Center, New York @SaiAchi1 “This is to notify you that your flight is going to be delayed,” blared the airport announcement. It was around March 2020, and I was traveling…
Starting at Home and Staying at Home for Dialysis
Brian Rifkin, MDInterventional and General Nephrology Hattiesburg ClinicHattiesburg, MS@brian_rifkin The push to have more patients dialyzed in the home setting is gaining momentum in the United States (US) under programs like the ETC (ESRD Treatment Choices), in which…