Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Did Mozart Die of Kidney Disease?
What’s a picture of Mozart doing on the Renal Fellow Network? Fellow renal fellow Lisa Cohen gave a presentation on nephrotic syndrome at our Renal Grand Rounds and discussed evidence that Mozart, who died at the young age…
Humanized Mouse Model for Minimal Change Disease
Identifying the “permeability factor” for patients with FSGS or minimal change disease has been one of the “holy grails” of nephrology, and our inability to identify such a factor has not been for any lack of trying. One…
A 3rd ANCA Subtype: LAMP-2
We all know about the p-ANCA and the c-ANCA, which are antibodies against either myeloperoxidase (MPO) or proteinase-3 (PR3), respectively. Now get ready for a 3rd ANCA subtype, an antibody against LAMP-2! In a recent Nature Medicine article…
Urinary Exosomes
Did you know that there are tiny vesicles in your pee? A 2004 PNAS article by Pisitkun et al demonstrates that this is the case; the vesicles are secreted by tubular epithelial cells at the apical surface and…
Proliferation Requirement for Cystogenesis
I’m suffering from information overload after my first day at the 2008 ASN in Philadelphia, PA. I attended a series of great talks and have a whole list of possible blog topics in my notebook. For now, I’ll…
Tacrolimus Drug Interactions
I’m reporting LIVE from the American Society of Nephrology convention in Philadelphia, PA. I’ll be blogging from here as time & internet connectivity permit. The conference starts in earnest tomorrow morning. Until then: common drug interactions for TACROLIMUS…
Waiting Times for Potential Kidney Transplant Recipients With History of Cancer
I saw a patient in the renal transplant clinic today for evaluation to get onto the kidney transplant list, as he is just around the corner to starting dialysis (actually, he may actually start tonight since his routine…
Middle Molecules
The term “Middle Molecules” is a little confusing, in part due to its evolving definition. It was initially used to describe anything not dialyzed off by the older dialyzer membranes of the 1970s, which predominantly filtered out only…
Scleroderma & the Kidney
Scleroderma is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis and hardening of the skin and other organs–occasionally involving the kidney to such an extent that dialysis becomes necessary. There are two main flavors of scleroderma: (1) the CREST…
PAN versus MPA
Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) and Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) are two vasculitides which were previously grouped together. However, they are currently thought of as two separate entities. PAN is a vasculitis of the medium-sized arteries, sparing the smaller vessels and…