Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Conferences, Courses, & Grants
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Renal Functional Reserve: Time for a Kidney stress test in clinical practice?
GFR varies under normal physiological conditions and during illnesses. A popular example is a low GFR in vegetarians and a higher GFR in consumers of large quantities of animal protein, even when they have a similar normal renal…
Obesity and CKD: How big is this?
How important is obesity to the field of nephrology? Perhaps obesity is the single strongest risk factor for CKD in the US and most of the developed world. While genetics are certainly important, obesity drives the diabetes epidemic…
Emphysematous Pyelonephritis
I was asked to see 74 year old man with an acute on chronic kidney injury. He had 2 days of generalised lower abdominal pain and vomiting but no urinary symptoms or fever. His past history included advanced…
Introducing Nephropoly
Nephropoly: Urine Trouble, a winner of the inaugural 2015 ASN Innovations in Kidney Education Contest is now available at the link below. You will need to use a desktop to run this program. Below is a quick description…
Washington University Nephrology Web Episode – Bone Mineral Metabolism
The complex interplay of calcium and phosphorus metabolism with intact PTH, vitamin D, and FGF-23 is one of the more difficult things to understand, and also one of the hardest concepts to teach to students, residents, and fellows….
Sweet’s syndrome and the Kidney
This is an interesting case which I have been managing over the last six months. A 50-year-old male, with no previous medical illnesses, presented with fatigue, weight loss and arthralgia for several weeks. Clinical examination was unremarkable. Investigations…
Reminder: Attend the Origins of Renal Physiology Fellows Course 2016
National Course for Renal Fellows: Origins of Renal Physiology Applications are now open for this national renal fellows’ course, which runs from August 27 to September 3, 2016 at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories, near Acadia National…
A Fresh Approach to Understanding Clinical Hypertension
With advances in the field of nephrology broadening our knowledge of transplant medicine, glomerular disease, and the interventional aspects of access, I believe fellowship training in the traditional areas of the specialty such as hypertension have diminished. And…
World repercussion of the NEJM desensitization article – A Brazilian perspective
The recently published paper in the NEJM entitled “Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible LiveDonors” caused a huge impact on Brazil’s media. Our main broadcast TV devoted few minutes explaining it, suggesting as a real breakthrough. Patients…
Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Transplantation: Hopeful to Make #NephMadness ’17. #TransplantRegion
#NephMadness season is here! The #TransplantRegion has very interesting matchups, but one player that was left out of this contest because is relatively new in the game and relatively unknown, is Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs). In the last few years…