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
Origins of Renal Physiology Course: Fellows 2022
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories are delighted to announce that, after a COVID interruption last year, will again be hosting the National Course for Nephrology Fellows. When: August 27– September 3, 2022 Location: MDI Biological Laboratory (travel information)…
Applications for 2022 American Transplant Congress Trainee Travel Grants Due 3/15
The American Transplant Congress (ATC) is the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and will be held June 4 – 8, 2022 in Boston, MA. The AST Trainee and…
The POCUS Journal Kidney Care Edition
It’s been a year and a half since put out the call for cases for a compendium of point of care ultrasound topics for nephrologists in collaboration with The POCUS Journal. We had an overwhelming response from the…
Registration for Virtual KIDNEYcon 2022 is OPEN
When: April 29-30, 2022 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 provide updates in the latest advances in…
The Case of the Missing Casts
A 50 y/o woman presents with symptoms of fatigue and malaise for 1-2 weeks. Medications include ACE, HCTZ, and a multivitamin daily. She had a UTI 6 weeks ago that did not improve after a 5 day course…
Kidney CPC Series: AA Rare Case of Nephrotic Syndrome
Meloney Oliveira, MD1st year fellow Division of Nephrology Rush University Medical Center *The patient history in this post is fictitious, but represents how a patient with these biopsy findings might present Case*: A 40-year-old with a 16-year history of heroin…
Urine Sediment of the Month: Oblique Illumination in Microscopy
Urinary sediment microscopy is a diagnostic technique designed to acquire 2-dimensional images of structures present in a slide. However, 2-dimensional views may lack sufficient contrast to allow for optimal visualization. One way to enhance the images and create…
Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Sami Droubi, MD, Raphael Rosen, MDFellows, New York Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center For decades it has been suspected that a “permeability factor” is present in the serum of patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome but the identity…
Skeleton Key Group Case #25: Falling for Phosphate!
Welcome to the 25th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 50-odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. These are actual cases (without patient identifying information)…
Beyond RNA: How Integration of Single Nucleus Chromatin Accessibility Sequencing Can Help our Understanding of the Kidney
Eryn E. Dixon, PhD Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis The reach of single cell sequencing technologies continues to rapidly expand across tissue and disease models with the introduction of multi-omic approaches. Here, we continue our…