Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
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Rapamycin for ADPKD?
Another potentially useful drug to prevent cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease comes from the interesting observation that kidney transplant patients with native ADPKD kidneys who were given an immunosuppressant regimen containing the drug rapamycin (sirolimus)…
Sudden cardiac death rates in ESRD patients
The case against Sunday As A Day Of Rest For the Dialysis Unit: this older study (Bleyer et al, Kidney International 1999) looked at sudden death amongst ESRD patients according to days of the week using data from…
PRES
The MRI above depicts a classic example of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), sometimes also called reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy, an increasingly-recognized consequence of malignant hypertension. The whitish areas (“hyper-intense signal”) in the bilateral occipital and parietal lobes represent…
A recession-proof profession?
How many nephrologists does the U.S. need? I recently heard a thought-provoking calculation from MGH’s Dr. David Steele which helps illustrate a likely shortage in the number of American nephrologists. The calculation is admittedly a rough estimate, but…
Why Do U.S. ESRD Patients Do So Poorly?
The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) is an important longitudinal study of ESRD patients in multiple countries, and is the source of much respected epidemiologic data on dialysis patients worldwide. Interestingly, the DOPPS estimated the crude…
Some Cool, Geeky Science-Type Kidney Web Resources
Two very interesting web sites for those involved in the study of mouse as a model organism for the study of kidney disease and kidney development: The first is the Genitourinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) site, which…
Exciting NEJM Membranous Nephropathy Article
A landmark paper on membranous nephropathy was published by Beck et al in the most recent issue of NEJM. Ultimately we will have to see if the finding is reproducible, but based on the data presented this represents…
Nephrology Pearls Courtesy of Hippocrates
A cool article from this month’s AJKD describes several of the Nephrology-related aphorisms originally penned by Hippocrates sometime around 400 BCE. These brief, pithy sayings probably represent the earliest attempts to understand the kidney in health and disease…
Utility of Testing For Eosinophiluria
Testing for the presence of urine eosinophils is often performed when the diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis is suspected. The landmark paper touting the use of this test is a 1986 New England Journal of Medicine article by…
The Acanthocyte
We’re all taught that looking for dysmorphic red blood cells on urinalysis is a useful marker of glomerular hematuria. But how do we define “dysmorphic”? And how was this association originally studied? One landmark paper was this 1991…