Attention Nephrology Fellows: Compete in the 2nd Annual NephMadness Invitational Tournament at the 2025 NKF Spring Clinical Meeting!
Onconephrology Early Program at ASN , titled “Onconephrology: Cancer, Its Treatments and the Kidneys.”
Leucine Crystals in the Urine – Still enigmatic after more than 150 years
Wanted: RFN Fellow Editor (Application Due 11/1)
Kidney Comics: The Nephron Factory
Skeleton Key Group Case #35: Rhabdo Fiasco
2025 NephSIM Nephrons: Application Due 11/1 (For Medical Students & Residents)
Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis Symposium: 9/27 (In-Person)
Skeleton Key Group Case #34: Adrenal Insufficiency- A Salty Saga
Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel in Patients with Exhausted Vascular Access: Unconventional Sites for Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Access Creation and Catheter Placement
Mohammad Ahsan Sohail, MD Nephrology & Hypertension Fellow PGY-5 Department of Kidney Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Tushar Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACP Chair, Department of Medicine, John D. Dingell Department of VA Medical Center Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, Wayne…
Shared Decision Making in Dialysis Vascular Access
Dr. Avinash Rao Ullur, MD, Clinical Fellow in Nephrology, University of Toronto, Canada avinash.raoullur@uhn.ca Acknowledgements:This post is part of a collaboration between The Renal Fellow Network and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), whose mission…
Arteriovenous Potpourri: Endovascular AVF Creation, Drug-Coated Balloons and Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts
Maria Angela Matabang, MD PGY-2 Medical Resident Lincoln Medical Center Ramani Karthik, MD, MHA, FACP, FASN, FASDIN Medical Director of Interventional Nephrology University of Michigan, FASDIN Acknowledgements: This post is part of a collaboration between The Renal Fellow…
Disrupting Catheter Associated Fibrin Sheath Formation
Brian Rifkin, MD Hattiesburg Clinic Acknowledgements: This post is part of a collaboration between The Renal Fellow Network and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), whose mission is to provide excellence in dialysis access care…
Radial Artery Cardiac Catheterization in Patients with Kidney Disease
Avinash Rao Ullur, MD DrNB (Nephrology), FASN, CHS Clinical Fellow in Onconephrology The University of Toronto, Canada Aisha Shaikh, MD Associate Attending, Renal DivisionDepartment of Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Acknowledgements: This post is part of…
Should Tunneled Dialysis Catheters be Placed at the Bedside in Critically-Ill Patients?
Mohammad Ahsan Sohail, MD Department of Kidney Medicine Nephrology & Hypertension Fellow, PGY-4Cleveland Clinic Tushar Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACPChair, Department of Medicine, John D. Dingell Department of VA Medical CenterVice Chair, Department of Medicine, Wayne State University School Of…
Cannulate No Fistula Before It’s Time: AVF Maturation 101
Sherida Edding MD, IM PGY-3 Lincoln Medical and Mental Health CenterAndrew Kowalski MD, MPH, FASN, Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine/ Macneal Hospital Acknowledgements: This post is part of a collaboration between The…
The Baggage of AV Access: Too Big a Load for an Overburdened Heart?
Maria Angela M. Matabang, MDLincoln Medical Center @AnjMatabang Acknowledgements: This post is part of a collaboration between The Renal Fellow Network and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), whose mission is to provide excellence in…
Does Creation of an AVF Reduce Progression of Kidney Disease?
Sindhuri Prakash-Polet, MD, PhD & Sean Kalloo, MD, MBA, FASDIN Fellow in Interventional Nephrology & Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Radiology), Columbia University Medical Center @sprakashpolet Introduction: Efforts to find therapeutics and interventions that can modify the trajectory…
Why be PICC-Y about Central Lines in Patients with CKD?
Tazeen Rizvi, MDAdvocate Christ Medical CenterOak Lawn, IL Epidemiology: A Peripherally inserted Central Catheter (PICC) is a 50 to 60 cm long single, double, or triple lumen catheter, which is placed in a peripheral arm vein and terminates…