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RFN NephMadness 2021 Champion: HIF Stabilizers
NephMadness has begun! Submit your 2021 NephMadness picks here.We’ll review some NephMadness basics below and leak our picks for this year. What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an educational game played out across social media, modeled after the US college basketball…
Skeleton Key Group Case 16: Blame-o the Vanc-o
Welcome to the 16th 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 patient identifying…
16th Annual 2021 Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Young Investigator’s Forum
The 16th Annual 2021 Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Young Investigator’s Forum will be held on March 24-25 in 2021 virtually. Call for abstracts is now open. The Young Investigator’s Forum serves to stimulate research for fellows in training in Nephrology…
NKF 2021 Kidney & Transplant Symposium (March 2nd) – FREE for trainees
On Tuesday, March 2 from 8am- 6:45pm EST, this exciting virtual conference from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) will highlight recent major advances and best practices in the treatment and care of kidney disease, dialysis, transplantation, and organ…
Registration for Virtual KIDNEYcon 2021 is OPEN
What: Virual KIDNEYcon 2021 When: April 29 – May 1, 2021 Where: Virtual Who Should Attend: Internal Medicine Residents, Pediatric Residents, Adult and Pediatric Nephrology Fellows, Attending Nephrologists KIDNEYcon is an annual conference (started in 2016) designed to…
Nate’s Corner: We Love a Silver Stain, but Your Non-Argyrophilic Casts Do Not
This past weekend, Arkana Laboratories hosted another live pathology session covering part II of all things intratubular casts (now focused on crystalline intratubular casts). Dr. Zeljko Dvanajscak helmed the microscope, taking viewers through the 4 major categories of…
Urine Sediment of the Month: Mixed Cellular Casts
As we have covered before, RBC casts most often signify the presence of glomerulonephritis while WBC casts are indicative of an inflammatory process affecting the glomeruli or interstitium. Sometimes, casts can be seen which contain both red and…
Evolving function of the gut microbiota in kidney disease
Justine Abais-Battad, PhDInstructor, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Over the last decade we have witnessed surging scientific and public interest in the gut microbiota and its relationship to our overall health. German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach said…
Evaluation of Venous Congestion Using Point of Care Ultrasonography
Eduardo R Argaiz @ArgaizR, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico It is well known that congestion is the primary reason for hospitalization in patients with acute heart failure and an important target for therapy….
Kidney Biopsy of the Month: Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Definition A group of podocytopathies (of varying etiologies) share a common morphologic feature of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), typically with moderate to heavy proteinuria. The term “sclerosis” means healing and it is characterized by accumulation of glomerular collagen…