Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Renal Grand Rounds – A Chilling Case of Hyperkalemia
A 62 year old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy (EF 35%) and CKD (baseline Cr ~3 mg/dl) had a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. EMS arrived within 3 minutes. He received CPR and was shocked out of ventricular fibrillation (VF). …
Come to KIDNEYcon April 7-8 2017 for hands on learning
When- April 7-8, 2017 Where- Little Rock, Arkansas Who should attend- Internal Medicine Residents, Pediatric Residents, Adult and Pediatric Fellows, Attending Nephrologists **if you are an adult nephrology fellow and interested in coming please note that you should…
Wash U Web Episode – Kidney Pathology 101, “Welcome to 2017 Edition”
Happy New Year to all RFN visitors! This month’s nephrology web episode coming from Washington University is a primer on kidney histology. Most of us can recognize the silver stain from the trichrome, but how many times have…
Clinical Pearl – Bleeding and Liver Disease
Bleeding is a common complication of liver disease and given that we as nephrologists are sometimes asked to place lines or perform renal biopsies on patients with cirrhosis, it is important to know the physiology behind the reason…
Top nephrology-related stories of 2016
2016 marks the 7th year of the Top Nephrology Stories post on RFN. When this list first started in 2010 it was more challenging to get the stories. Now 7 years later, everything has changed. In my mind…
Renal Grand Rounds: Fevers on Dialysis – Not always an Infection
At renal grand rounds this week, I presented a case of a gentleman who presented with fevers, confusion, and lower extremity pain during dialysis. The patient would spike low grade fevers pre-HD and then fevers up to 105…
The Painless Guide to Mastering Clinical Acid Base
Apologies to Ben for the delay in posting about this. Ben Abelow is an MD in New Haven who has long had an interest in teaching basic acid base physiology. In the late 1990s he published a primer…
Green dialysis: what to do with discarded water used during dialysis?
Global warming is a growing threat to our health. Dialysis, while sustaining the lives of millions worldwide, has a significant environmental impact. Think of your last dialysis order. Perhaps the Kd was 500 ml/min for four hours. That’s…
Top Nephrology- Related Stories of 2016: The Nominees Call
It’s that time of the year. Time to create the Top Nephrology Stories of 2016. These can range from basic to clinical research, and even include news stories. Basically anything that made an impact. Before the voting begins…
Nephrology Web Episode #12 – Understanding the Free Water Deficit
Understanding that serum Na abnormalities almost always imply a problem with water is something that has been hammered into us since pre-clinical med school years. And whenever a nephrology attending asks you what is going on with a…