While making rounds, I was paged to the dialysis unit to evaluate a patient on hemodialysis via a tunneled dialysis catheter, who began having chills and hypotension during a session. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon situation and…
It is not often you see components of a basic metabolic panel (BMP) as a headline in the news. However, in one corner of the world, “creatinine” has become a term that commonly used by the public. It…
Most of us go to sleep and wake up around the same time every day, even on the weekends when we try to sleep in. When we change our schedule to either wake up earlier or because we…
With Kidney Week just around the corner, the American Society of Nephrology (@ASNkidney) has released a new podcast featuring a conversation between ASN Communications Associate, Sara Leeds, and two of the youngest Kidney Week attendees who have ever…
In my intern year while on the wards a patient of mine with normal kidney function on admission developed acute kidney injury (AKI) 48 hours after angiography; I thought I was confident about the diagnosis, it had to…
Every year since 2012, ASN has hosted the FIT bowl at Kidney Week to inspire fellows to compete and learn nephrology in a fun and competitive way. In previous years, there had been 2 teams of fellows from…
If you are interested in learning more about the ins-and-outs of dialysis consider attending the Annual Dialysis Conference: the largest multidisciplinary dialysis conference founded in 1980 by the Division of Nephrology at the University of Missouri. Who Can…
A 2008 research study found that Canadian medical residents were most likely to choose a specialty based on factors such as lifestyle, previous role models, experience of the resident with the specialty, and mentorship. The same study found that procedural…
A 50 year-old presented with a 3 day history of malaise and fatigue 2 months after receiving a deceased donor kidney transplant with T-cell depleting induction therapy. Discharge medications after transplantation included tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, and valganciclovir…
The American Society of Nephrology (@ASNKidney) has released a new podcast featuring a conversation between nephrology fellows Samira Farouk, MD, MS (@ssfarouk) and Devika Nair, MD (@devimol) and ASN Communications Associate Sara Leeds on fellows’ perspectives and experiences….