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
World Kidney Day 2010
Happy World Kidney Day! Celebrated every year in March, World Kidney Day is a day devoted to raising awareness of kidney disease across the globe. This year promised to be a huge success: cities throughout the world, from…
Lack of respect for the beans
I have just learned two very interesting aspects of kidney donation that I would like to share with you. As part of my transplant fellowship, I am required to participate in the decisions about accepting or not a…
Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
This is one that Nate would have liked….I recently saw a case of renal disease in an albino Peurto Rican woman with severe pulmonary fibrosis. She holds the diagnosis of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS).HPS is an autosomal recessive disorder…
Compensation for living organ donation! A taboo no more but….
Talking to Nate always stimulated new ideas and new challenges. Last time I met him, we played soccer in the park with the kids (that was also a challenge but fun and easy to win…). We also talked…
Familial renal glucosuria and a new drug for diabetes mellitus
The kidney contributes to glucose homeostasis by reabsorbing ~180 grams of glucose daily. Two sodium-coupled glucose transporters play an important role in this process, SGLT1 and SGLT2. Of these two, SGLT2 (encoded by the gene SLC5A2 on chromosome…
Alimentary Azotemia?
I am currently a clinical fellow, slogging through another consult month. As I am sure many of you have experienced, consult questions often come in batches. At least three times this week we have been called to see…
I had the opportunity to talk to Nate on several occasions when he would moonlight and I would be burning the midnight oil on call. Our conversations would run the gamut from our families, to life as a…
Creatinine: A Cautionary Tale
In recent months I’ve been seeing a number of referrals for patients with creatinine values in the normal range but eGFR as reported by the lab at below 60ml/min. This is particularly the case in middle aged women….
Revealed: my “covert” project with Nate a.k.a TRP channels in the kidney
Nate Hellman’s bench was three benches down from my lab. Nate and I trained together as clinical fellows. He and I had also brainstormed on research projects involving TRP channels and kidney disease. TRP channels are my research…
New contributors to the Renal Fellow Network
I’d like to welcome the following new contributors to the Renal Fellow Network, who will begin writing this week. Between them, they have a wide range of clinical expertise and research interests. I’m confident that their contributions will…