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
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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
Dialysis for dementia?
When I first began learning about Nephrology, I came across ‘dialysis dementia’, a progressive and fatal condition described in hemodialysis patients. Several studies in the 1970s implicated aluminium found in phosphorus binders and dialysate water as the cause….
Training in ABPM, the “Renal Biopsy” of Hypertension
24 hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is the gold-standard for diagnosing sustained, white coat, and masked hypertension. It’s a better predictor of cardiovascular events than office readings and carries a Grade A recommendation by the United States…
Glomcon Teaching Tool
Glomerular Disease Case Conferences from GlomCon on Vimeo. I would like to introduce you to a new educational project for Nephrology fellowship programs, the Glomcon Teaching Tool. It has been selected as a finalist in this year’s ongoing ASN…
Treatment of HCV with the new DAAs: Before or After Kidney Transplant?
In the pre-DAA era, the dogma was to treat HCV pre-transplant for two reasons: active HCV increases post-transplant hepatic complications, NODAT, and decreases patient and graft survival and that IFN cannot be used post-transplant because of higher risk…
Treatment of HCV with the new DAAs: Part 1
The Burden of Hepatitis C The estimated global Hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) burden was slashed down to 71 million by the WHO in 2015, from the earlier estimate of 130-150 million, after Rao et all showed that…
New Wash U Webisode – Part 2/2 on Vascular Access
The July 2017 nephrology webisode is part 2 of a series featuring vascular access expert Dr. Dirk Hentschel. In last month’s episode we went to the bedside to examine the access of 2 patients on chronic hemodialysis. This…
An Under Recognised Cause of Metabolic Acidosis
The MUDPALES mnemonic for raised anion gap acidosis was drilled into me from medical school. However recently after working through each category I became stumped when nothing ticked the box to identify the cause. The lady I had…
The evidence behind the use of plasmapheresis in glomerular diseases
Therapeutic plasma exchange (PLEX) is a type of therapy where a patient’s plasma volume is removed over a period of a few hours, through a process of centrifugation of blood with subsequent separation of its constituents, and replaced…
Thirsty Phursty: The Polydipsia Workup
Figure 1 Ms. Phursty is a 66 year old Caucasian woman with a past medical history of Graves’ disease who was referred to nephrology for polydipsia. She endorsed extreme thirst for the last 3-4 months drinking 6 glasses…
ASN Fellows Survey — Last Chance!!
The ASN is conducting a critical FELLOWS SURVEY about your experiences in training and future goals/expectations in nephrology. They need more fellows to participate and represent our field well. The survey is ANONYMOUS and very helpful in developing…