Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Nephrology Web Episode – The Kidney Biopsy!
The monthly nephrology webisode from the Wash U Nephrology Series is back with another history lesson. This video focuses on the history of the percutaneous kidney biopsy and its evolution from the 1950s to today. Check it out…
Snake Bites and Kidney Injury
Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of developing countries in tropical regions. Clinical manifestations depends on the dose of venom injected, bite to needle time, potency and adequacy…
An Artificial Implantable Kidney: Basics for Nephrologists and Fellows
Has a patient ever asked you about the artificial kidney? At this point many nephrologists and patients have heard about the latest advances, and it has even reached the mainstream news. A simple Google search for “artificial kidney”…
My Experience with Twitter for Teaching
Teaching should be a fun, sweet, and rewarding process. Perhaps like eating a piece of cake with some kidney on it. I am currently a third year internal medicine resident, and I always pondered on the ideal…
Eliminate the Unnecessary… Less is More
The medical profession is one of the few professions in the world where the person remains a student for life. We are perennially in this stage of learning some more …a bit more…a little more…And not surprisingly this…
Outside my Comfort Zone: The Overlap Between Nephrology and Obstetric Medicine
As a current Nephrology trainee I recently decided to do a side step and rotate through obstetric medicine (looking after medical problems in pregnant women). I was interested in this for a few reasons. Throughout my medical training…
Evolution of PLA2R as biomarker, diagnostic tool and prognostic indicator in Membranous Nephropathy
Membranous nephropathy is among the most common causes of the nephrotic syndrome in non-diabetic adult. It is an immune complex mediated disease which occurs when circulating antibodies permeate the glomerular basement membrane and form immune complexes with epitopes…
Dialysis vascular access in the elderly – The jury is still out
What is the Fistula First Initiative? The Fistula First Initiative (FFI) is a national quality improvement project that was established in 2003 to increase the use of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) for hemodialysis (HD) access in incident and prevalent…
Can You Say the C Word on the Ward? Chronicity, Cure, Care and the History of Hospital Medicine.
‘That was so cool! He looked a thousand times better! And his bloods too!’ Rob, our junior resident, was bounding down the stairs beside me, breathless with the thrill of the last 24 hours. We had met…
A Paisa of Prevention is Cheaper than a Few Rupees of Cure: CKD in India
Raji* was feeling increasingly distraught as she waited at the doctor’s clinic with her 14 yr old daughter. The teenager had not been eating well and was losing weight for the past 6 months. She was always tired…