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
Mythbusters: Hypertension
It seems like there have been a lot of recent developments in the management of hypertension, and several sacred cows have become burgermeat. I thought I’d summarize a few of these important developments here: 1. Blood pressure targets…
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…