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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Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Hemodialysis University
The International Society for Hemodialysis’ Hemodialysis University is a two-day course that will be taking place in Chicago Sept 9-10th this year. The course covers many issues current in dialysis and of particular interest are talks on HIF stabilizers for anemia…
2nd Midwest Transplant Symposium
Free accommodation is available for nephrology fellows and residents (IM or Surgery) for Friday night (October 14) at Home 2 Suites (rooms are limited). To apply for free accommodation, please email Laura Kipper lkipper@wustl.edu Go here for registration…
How would you improve dialysis care if you had unlimited resources?
What if we could do more frequent dialysis? Would this improve QOL as potentially seen in the original FHN trial or even improve survival as seen in recent longer-term FHN follow-up? What if we had more resources to…
Potassium Board Review – New Wash U Nephrology Web Episode
Hypokalemia, hypertension, and metabolic alkalosis – this clinical triad can be seen in a variety of interesting disorders that unfortunately are much more common during in-training or board certification exams than in clinical practice. That doesn’t mean you…
Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency: An often overlooked cause of hyponatremia
As I prepare for my nephrology fellowship, I find that in preparing my didactics as a chief resident, I selfishly (and perhaps subconsciously) include kidney-related teaching wherever I can. During one such moment, I came across a something I…
Recurrent kidney stones: causes and management
Patient is a 37-year-old female with cystic fibrosis, recurrent nephrolithiasis who presents to clinic with asymptomatic bilateral kidney stones (8mm on right; 2mm on left) on imaging. What type of stone and why cystic fibrosis (CF) is associated…
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…