Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Conferences, Courses, & Grants
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Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Don’t be Alarmed, but Your Kidney has a Clock
Most of us go to sleep and wake up around the same time every day, even on the weekends when we try to sleep in. When we change our schedule to either wake up earlier or because we…
Contrast and AKI: The Plot Thickens
In my intern year while on the wards a patient of mine with normal kidney function on admission developed acute kidney injury (AKI) 48 hours after angiography; I thought I was confident about the diagnosis, it had to…
Can the Nephrology Fellow Shift the Tides in Nephrology Education and Recruitment?
A 2008 research study found that Canadian medical residents were most likely to choose a specialty based on factors such as lifestyle, previous role models, experience of the resident with the specialty, and mentorship. The same study found that procedural…
CMV: Almost Always On The Transplant Patient’s Differential Diagnosis
A 50 year-old presented with a 3 day history of malaise and fatigue 2 months after receiving a deceased donor kidney transplant with T-cell depleting induction therapy. Discharge medications after transplantation included tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, and valganciclovir…
Homelessness and Kidney Disease
Doing my nephrology training in San Francisco, CA has made it clear to me that homelessness is an essential health policy issue. 553,742 people experience homelessness in the United States as of January 2017. While San Francisco has…
What are Survival Rates for Patients on Dialysis?
To determine if a patient receiving hemodialysis newly diagnosed with a malignancy might benefit from aggressive cancer treatment, an oncologist colleague posed the following question to me: “What is the typical survival rate for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD)…
A Nephrology Fellow’s Guide to Billing/Coding
Nephrology fellows – you don’t want to miss the Siegfried & Roy of Billing & Coding @ParinMakadia @drirfanagha at Nephrology Business Leadership 2018 https://t.co/2GtrF6hBCM @NBLUniv @Nephro_Sparks @DiMiRenalMD @DallasRenal pic.twitter.com/XaD2gmuJ1U — Samir Nangia MD CPE (@SamirNangia) January 19, 2018…
Dear Future Independent Investigator in Nephrology…
As part of an effort to organize some materials relevant to career development for budding physician-scientists in my division, I wrote the following letter and deposited it on a shared drive. Since it might be helpful to other…
Edelman is the Root of Almost All Good in Nephrology
Almost all the formulas we use in the management of the disorders of water homeostasis are derived from the Edelman equation. I am presenting where these formulas come from for the math aficionados. Edelman equation · Original…
Spironolactone Revisited
As a renal fellow, I have found myself reaching for spironolactone more and more. It is very helpful when treating the patient with resistant hypertension, but it continues to be under-utilized. Aside from the renal-centric effects of aldosterone,…