ASN Collaboration with the Home Dialysis University
Origins of Renal Physiology Course: Fellows 2023
Nephmadness 2023!
Skeleton Key Group Case #29: Hyponatremia and Liver Disease: don’t let it bring you down!
Radial Artery Cardiac Catheterization in Patients with Kidney Disease
Trainee Travel Grants Available to Attend 2023 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Comics: Kidneys in the Stone Age
Should Tunneled Dialysis Catheters be Placed at the Bedside in Critically-Ill Patients?
Urine Sediment of the Month: Another Look at Macroscopic Evaluation
Landmark Nephrology Highlights a Common Clinical Conundrum: Steroids for IgA Nephropathy
In an ideal world, patients would present to our clinic with straightforward conditions, allowing us to confidently treat the patient with effective medications which will likely have much more benefit than harm. However, we also commonly encounter patients…
Landmark Trials in Renal Artery Stenosis
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) can lead to a reduction in kidney blood flow with resultant ischemia of the affected kidney. The consequences of this reduction are a decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and activation of the…
Landmark Trials in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Past, Present and To Be Cont’d…
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA) was first described in 1982 in a case of segmental necrotizing glomerulonephritis (Fig. 1). The first international ANCA workshop in 1989 delineated a standard immunofluorescence technique to test for ANCA in kidney biopsy specimen….
Landmark Trials in ADPKD: Close, But No Cigar
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common genetic disease, affecting 1/400 to 1/1000 live births and is the fourth leading cause of end-stage kidney disease in adults. Both types of ADPKD (1 and 2) typically have…
Landmark Trials in Lupus Nephritis: Look How Far We’ve Come!
Lupus nephritis occurs in up to 80% of patients with SLE, and is associated with significantly reduced survival. Interestingly, one of the first studies to describe lupus nephritis was written approximately 50 years ago (Fig. 1) and was…