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
FOAMed
Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Hyponatremia and ESRD
Hyponatremia can be seen in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), often as a consequence of a patient’s increase in free water intake in the setting of the kidneys’ diminished ability to regulate sodium and water homeostasis. I…
February Renal Path Video – Wash U Nephrology Web Episodes!
For anyone wanting to unravel an unusual case and brush up on their renal pathology, check out the February episode of the Wash U Nephrology web series.
Point of Care Ultrasound for the Nephrologist at #SCM2017
Want to up your ultrasound game… Attend the point of care ultrasound for the nephrologist pre-course at the NKF Spring Clinical Meeting in Orlando, FL April 18 2017 click here to register The nephrology consultant needs knowledge of…
Renal Grand Rounds: Correlate Clinically
I recently presented the case of a middle-aged patient with ESRD secondary to Goodpasture syndrome. She presented with AKI 3 months after a kidney transplant. Her creatinine had normalized to 0.9mg/dl post-transplant. However, over the next few months…
Renal Grand Rounds – What Lurks in the Gap
I recently presented the case of a middle-aged man with a history of a remote Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, chronic diarrhea, and colon cancer on chemotherapy who initially presented with progressive fatigue and weakness in the setting of increased…
Nephrology Business Leadership University
See below for details on a very interesting looking course for Renal Fellows: We are excited to introduce a new innovative program available to Nephrology Fellows – Nephrology Business Leadership University (NBLuniv.com) NBLU is a unique week long program…
Renal Grand Rounds – A Chilling Case of Hyperkalemia
A 62 year old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy (EF 35%) and CKD (baseline Cr ~3 mg/dl) had a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. EMS arrived within 3 minutes. He received CPR and was shocked out of ventricular fibrillation (VF). …
Come to KIDNEYcon April 7-8 2017 for hands on learning
When- April 7-8, 2017 Where- Little Rock, Arkansas Who should attend- Internal Medicine Residents, Pediatric Residents, Adult and Pediatric Fellows, Attending Nephrologists **if you are an adult nephrology fellow and interested in coming please note that you should…
Wash U Web Episode – Kidney Pathology 101, “Welcome to 2017 Edition”
Happy New Year to all RFN visitors! This month’s nephrology web episode coming from Washington University is a primer on kidney histology. Most of us can recognize the silver stain from the trichrome, but how many times have…
Clinical Pearl – Bleeding and Liver Disease
Bleeding is a common complication of liver disease and given that we as nephrologists are sometimes asked to place lines or perform renal biopsies on patients with cirrhosis, it is important to know the physiology behind the reason…