Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
Want to write a case report? RFN has you covered with a list of journals to choose from
Have a Nephrology Question? There Might Be A #Tweetorial For That!
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
From the Front Lines of Hurricane Harvey: A Nephrology Fellow’s Perspective
Interstate 10 at the 610 Intersection in Houston During Hurricane Harvey (2017) As a medical trainee I understand firsthand how vital and yet vulnerable our medical infrastructure is. This was hit home earlier this year when Hurricane Harvey…
Free Online Learning Module: Hemodialysis Kinetics 101 The ‘key’ to KT/V urea
Hemodialysis 101: The “key” to KT/V urea Namrata Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale has hit it out of the park. She has a fantastic online module to understand hemodialysis kinetics. This module is jam packed with…
Fellow Travel Award Opportunity to the Annual Dialysis Conference 2018, Orlando Fl
The Annual Dialysis Conference 2018 that will be held in Orlando, FL March 3-6, 2018. This conference has an excellent opportunity for fellows to present cases, both posters and oral presentation. Fellows can apply for a grant for…
ASN #KidneyWk Tweetup 2017 New Orleans
Before there were Tweetups there were blogger nights. The contributors to RFN and other early blogger formed the very first internet based gatherings in nephrology at Kidney Week. This year NephJC has taken over the reigns and will…
November Nephrology Web Episode – Myeloma Cast Nephropathy
The November 2017 nephrology web episode from Washington University is available for viewing a bit early to avoid conflicts with the upcoming #KidneyWk! This webisode is a short and basic lecture looking at myeloma cast nephropathy. We start…
October Nephrology Web Episode Available!
The monthly Wash U Nephrology Web episode for October is available and is back to basic renal pathology teaching after a couple of esoteric CPC cases. You can check it out below:
Interstitial Nephritis in the Renal Allograft: Rejection, Infection or Both?
In renal transplant recipients with allograft dysfunction, differentiating between a viral infection or acute cellular rejection as the etiology of interstitial nephritis can be difficult – especially as they can commonly occur concurrently. We recently saw a 40-year-old woman who received a…
Nephrology Business Leadership University – A Fellow’s Review.
Small Group Los Angeles Dialyspa NBLU 2017 In any academic fellowship, fellows receive excellent clinical training. However, the business aspect of practice often gets less attention. Before you know it you are scrambling to understand contracts, negotiate for…
From the Nate Hellman Unpublished Archive: Renal Ammonia Handling
Each day the average American creates 1 mEq/kg of acid which needs buffering. Most of the acid comes from protein. Our kidneys normally do all the buffering through 2 main systems – titratable and non-titratable acids Titratable acids…
From the Nate Hellman Unpublished Archive: microRNAs and the Kidney
MicroRNAs: one of the sexiest topics in the science community these days! Pick up a copy of Science, Nature, or Cell and you can usually find something to do with microRNAs within. What do these have to do…