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
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…
False-positive AKI and the perfectly imperfect biomarker
A small absolute change in serum creatinine level, 0.3 mg/dl, is used by Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) and Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guidelines to define the presence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The base of…
#NephMadness 2016: Ecstasy and Kidney Injury #NSMC
NSMC intern and Pulm Critical Care Attending Kamran Boka produced a great info graphic on the pathophysiology of ecstacy induced kidney injury which has a first round matchup against cocaine toxicity in NephMadness 2016. Check out the entire…
#NephMadness 16: Let’s win it for the Fellows
It’s finally arrived, the fourth annual NephMadness has dropped with 32 new Nephrology concepts battling it out for the month of March to see who will be crowned champion. Fully referenced blog posts on each of the topics…
The evolving role of PET imaging in Nephrology
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging modality that provides functional imaging of structures based on their ability to metabolize glucose and concentrate specific molecules that have been labeled with a positron-emitting radionuclide. Metabolically active cells (e.g,…