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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Lama Ghazi, MD PhDPostdoctoral Associate at Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator, Yale University School of Medicine@lama_ghazi I always want to know how the story ends as soon as I start and I always prefer when people lead with…