Skeleton Key Group Case #33: Atrocious Acidosis
Origins of Renal Physiology Course: Fellows 2024
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
Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
Cancer-associated hypercalcemia is the #1 cause for hypercalcemia in the inpatient setting (in the outpatient setting, the main cause is primary hyperparathyroidism). In general, hypercalcemia of malignancy portends a poor prognosis, and there are three main mechanisms by…
Favorite Renal Consult Topics
Poll results: the most appealing Nephrology Consult scenario chosen, perhaps not surprisingly, was workup of new-onset glomerulonephritis (44%). I would contend that many individuals choose Nephrology because they are interested in issues such as glomerulonephritis, interesting electrolyte and…
Differential Diagnosis of Hypomagnesemia
Why do we care about hypomagnesemia? And why are cardiologists so eager to replete the serum magnesium above 2.0 mg/dL? Very low serum Mg can result in serious cardiovascular and CNS effects. Specifically, hypomagnesemia can cause QRS widening…
Basics of PD prescription writing
Concerning the basics of PD prescription writing–and only the basics, since there’s lots to say about this interesting topic–the minimum prescription should specify the following: 1. What kind of PD does the patient use: for the most part,…
History of Cystoscopy
I stumbled across a bit of Nephrology/Urology history the other day while strolling around a hospital in Paris: this plaque commemorating one of the key steps in the invention of ureteroscopy and cystoscopy. The plaque can be found…
New Year’s Eve Poll Results
Happy New Year’s Eve! I found the results of last week’s poll to be surprising…well, I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked to see that Nephrology Fellows won the “hardest working fellow in show business” award, being that…
Complications of EPO Use
Well, I had hoped to be more of an active blogger during my holiday vacation this year, but my internet access has been much spottier than desired way out in the boondocks of Western France (not that I…
Mount Rushmore of Nephrology Announced
The readers have spoken and it is time to announce the results of the hypothetical “Mount Rushmore of Nephrology”: the four Nephrology Pioneers whose contributions have mattered most, and deserve to have their imagery preserved forever on a…
Angiojet as a Cause of AKI??
The Angiojet Rheolytic Thrombectomy System is a medical device currently used to re-establish blood flow in a variety of settings. Briefly, a catheter is introduced into an area of thrombosis and a saline stream is directed towards the thrombus of…
Differential Diagnosis of Red Urine
Red urine: it’s not always hematuria. The first step in evaluating the patient who complains of grossly red urine is to perform a standard urinalysis, focusing on (a) whether or not the dipstick turns heme-positive, and (b) whether…