Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
CoVID-19 Nephrology Fellow Survey
On behalf of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), thank you for your dedication to leading the fight against kidney diseases in these challenging times. ASN and the kidney community want to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected…
September 25th: (Virtual) Annual Symposium on “Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis”
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Annual Symposium on “Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis” will be held on September 25th, 8 AM – 5 PM ET. Register here ($25 for fellows). Find the agenda below and download…
Pivoting to Virtual / Individualized Learning in the COVID Era
Let’s face it. Everything changed. Despite this, many educators and training programs have heroically attempted to keep structure, didactics, and interactive learning alive in the face of such significant change. Historically, many GME training programs still rely on…
Cardiorenal Tracks: A Trainee Perspective
Over the past decade, as more is revealed about the intricacies between the heart and kidney, their relationship to one another is becoming better defined. Though this paradigm of integrative physiology is being adapted across all of medicine,…
Tenckhoff Catheter Insertion by a Nephrologist
Despite its many benefits, peritoneal dialysis (PD) uptake is quite poor in many countries. For example, in Malaysia, around 12% of all patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are on PD). One barrier to use of this…
St Anthony’s Fire: Ergot and the Kidney
What do migraines, holy fire, witch trials, and kidney failure have in common? That would be ergotamine. Ergotamine is a compound with a wide spectrum of pharmacologic activity produced by fungus in the claviceps species. It has agonist…
The UAB (Live + Virtual) CRRT Academy: November 4th & 5th, 2020
The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) CRRT Academy will be held on November 4th and 5th, 2020 at the Hilton Hotel at UAB, 808 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL, 35205. The preliminary conference program is available here: This year,…
Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Lessons From Basic Science
Casey DerellaPhD CandidateAugusta University Exercise and physical activity of any kind provide a substantial number of health benefits. In fact, the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommend that some exercise is…
Abstract Submission Open: 2020 ASN Kidney Week Digital Basic Research Forum for Trainees and Early Career Scientists
Digital Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists; A Partnership Between ASN and APS Wednesday, October 21st, 20208:45am – 5:40pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4)Virtual – Details TBD Abstract Submission Opens: July 20th, 2020 Abstract Submission Closes: August…
Skeleton Key Group: Electrolyte Case #10
Welcome to the 10th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of twenty -odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying information) that…