Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Applications are Open for the 2021 NSMC Internship
The Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship is a year-long internship where you can gain valuable skills making educational content online. The internship was established in 2015. Over 100 individuals have graduated from the program. Applications are now…
Influence of Circadian Clock on Blood Pressure Control
Ryan Crislip, PhDPostdoctoral FellowUniversity of Florida The circadian field has gained recent notoriety from three distinguished scientists (Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbasch, and Michael Young) being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017 for their isolation…
Lithium and the Kidneys: What Every Nephrologist Should Know
Lithium has been a very efficacious drug in the management of bipolar and other mood disorders. There are several aspects of lithium use that Nephrologists need to be mindful of including its pharmacokinetics, its dosing and target concentrations,…
Basics of Doppler Ultrasound for the Nephrologist- Part 2
In the previous post, we talked about the Doppler effect, color flow and power Doppler modes. Now let us focus on the spectral Doppler. Spectral Doppler enables us to measure the velocity of blood flow as well as…
How to approach a lone low serum bicarbonate: some illustrative cases
Metabolic acidosis is a common condition encountered routinely by Nephrologists. Etiology of this condition is quite varied often requiring detailed history and a battery of tests to tease out the diagnosis. In most of the scenarios, co-existing biochemical…
Dietary Habits as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease
John Henry Dasinger, PhDPostdoctoral FellowAugusta University 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…
Oxalate nephropathy: innocent bystander or primary driver of CKD
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…
Skeleton Key Group Electrolyte Case 14: Salt-Wasting in a Newborn
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…
Kidney Transplantation in Patients with HIV and ESKD
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…
Urine Sediment of the Month: Isolated Lipiduria
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…