George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner, said it best, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food“ George Bernard Shaw In the current coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many of us may…
Oxalate is a terminal metabolite in humans. Glyoxylate becomes glycine and pyruvate via alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) action, and excess glyoxylate gets converted to oxalate by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and glycolate oxidase. Besides being derived endogenously through metabolism, oxalate…
Welcome to the 14th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 40 – odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without…
Antiretroviral therapy has had a significant impact on improving the survival of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with their survival now being similar to patients not infected with HIV. With improved long-term survival, the prevalence of…
What is “isolated lipiduria”? The detection of urinary lipid droplets with a typical Maltese cross appearance in the absence of proteinuria or albuminuria. There are no reports or systematic analyses of this phenomenon, so this post reflects anecdotal…
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The 52nd Annual Medical Symposium, a bay area nephrology community tradition, is a day-long program that provides healthcare professionals with timely updates on CKD guidelines & standards, treatments, research and co-morbidities, so they may better care for and…
In 1971, a group of virologists in London first described a novel polyomavirus they discovered in the urine and urothelial cells of a kidney transplant recipient who had developed ureteric stenosis. Named after the patient it was first…
From the early physiology courses in Medical School, everyone learns to be wary of rapidly correcting serum sodium in the event of hyponatremia if its duration is chronic or unknown. But was this concern always present? In the…
I am often startled by the fact that patients are exposed to 120-200 L of dialysis solution during each dialysis treatment! Unsurprisingly then, patients on hemodialysis are particularly vulnerable to small molecular weight contaminants in the water used…