Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Hypovolemia versus Dehydration
It is important to realize the difference between HYPOVOLEMIA and DEHYDRATION, two terms which are often used interchangeably but in fact reflect different things. Read the Up-To-Date entry « Dehydration is not synonymous with hypovolemia » by Burton…
Banff ’07 Criteria Reviewed
Trick question: where was the 9th Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology in 2007 held? Hint: it wasn’t Banff (the beautiful national park in western Canada). Answer: La Coruna, Spain. At this conference a consensus regarding the histopathologic classification…
Hypoparathyroidism
One logical way to classify the different etiologies of hypocalcemia is to break them down into LOW PTH STATES and HIGH PTH STATES. Today I’ll review the HYPOCALCEMIA WITH LOW PH STATES, or in other words, the causes…
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
I remember learning about Lesch-Nyhan and thinking it was fascinating early on during a college course on neurology & behavior: affected children with this X-linked disorder develop the bizarre but highly characteristic behavior of self-mutilation, intentional biting of…
Immunosuppressant Drugs in Pregnancy
Is something missing in your life? Is it the opportunity to take multiple-choice exams? If so, check out this 10-question ASN-sponsored practice test designed to prepare Nephrology Fellows to be ready for the upcoming Nephrology Boards in November….
Stone Disease in ADPKD
Patients with ADPKD are predisposed to nephrolithiasis. The postulated reasons for this increased prevalence of stone disease have ranged from metabolic abnormalities (previous reports have shown an increased tendency for hyperoxaluria, hypercalciuria, hypocitraturia, hyperuricosuria, and distal RTA) to…
Congenital analbuminemia
Plasma oncotic pressure is important to prevent edema, right? And you would think that albumin, which plays a critical role in the binding of multiple plasma proteins and ionized calcium, is essential to life, right? The rare, autosomal…
EMT = epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
The three letter acronym EMT: what should it mean to nephrologists? Not just “emergency medical technician”…but also “epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.” As we all know the nephron is comprised of a long tube of highly-differentiated epithelial cells. These cells…
The Important Stuff
It’s important to teach your kids the important stuff in life…like, for instance, the fact that the kidneys are located in a retroperitoneal location, as demonstrated by my daughter.
Differential Diagnosis of Nodular Glomerulosclerosis
I recently had to look up the differential diagnosis of nodular glomerulosclerosis: we had recently sent a clinic patient to undergo a renal biopsy based on a history of nephrotic-range proteinuria (urine protein to creatinine ratio of about…