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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Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
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Proton Pump Inhibitors: Indigestion for nephrologists!
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are one of the most commonly prescribed medications, mostly because of their efficacy and their favorable safety profile. However, it has been estimated that between 25% and 70% of these prescriptions do not have…
Clinical Kidney Transplantation Course
The Universiteit Leiden and Medical University Medical Center in the Netherlands recently launched an open online course in Clinical Kidney transplantation. This course is endorsed by the European Society of Organ transplantation (ESOT) and it is divided in…
NKF Spring Clinical Meeting Fellow Events
The NKF Spring Clinical Meeting is on in Boston in April. Below is a summary of the events directed at Fellows and Residents this year as provided by the NKF: NKF will be holding its 2016 Spring Clinical…
Kidney Education website for patients translated in 20 languages
The Kidney Education Foundation is a health organization founded by Nephrologist Dr Sanjay Pandya. Its mission is to educate the people at large about kidney care across all boundaries. It is currently engaged in spreading the information by…
Novel hyperkalemia treatments – practical points
I was quite excited to see the development of novel agents to help us manage hyperkalemia in our kidney patients in place of kayexalate, which is extremely unpleasant for patients, is associated with diarrhea and have reported severe…
CKD intercept- A Primary Care Initiative from NKF
Our nation is aging, not always gracefully, and there is a large burden of CKD to manage. 13% of US adults have CKD stages 1-5 with less than 0.5% having stage 4-5 CKD (USRDS 2015 ADR, partially based…
Episode 2 of the Renal Pathology Series
Check out the next installment of Renal Pathology Teaching Series from the Division of Nephrology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Top nephrology-related stories of 2015
What a year 2015 turned out to be. Nephrology social media is beginning to mature with many projects adding to a rich educational experience online. Who needs MOC when you have this! NephJC continues to be one of…
Stop-IgA: Immunosuppression for proteinuric IgA Nephropathy
Despite being the world’s most common form of glomerulonephritis, IgA Nephropathy treatment strategies have hereto been controversial, particularly surrounding the use of immnosuppression on top of traditional RAAS blockade. The long awaited, Intensive Supportive Care plus Immunosuppression in…
Donor smoking and recipient outcomes in kidney transplantation
I evaluated a young kidney donor candidate in clinic a few days ago and although he did not have any obvious medical issues and was an excellent candidate, he has been smoking half-a-pack a day of cigarettes for…