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
NKF Spring Clinical Meeting Fellow Events
The NKF Spring Clinical Meeting is on in Boston in April. Below is a summary of the events directed at Fellows and Residents this year as provided by the NKF: NKF will be holding its 2016 Spring Clinical…
Kidney Education website for patients translated in 20 languages
The Kidney Education Foundation is a health organization founded by Nephrologist Dr Sanjay Pandya. Its mission is to educate the people at large about kidney care across all boundaries. It is currently engaged in spreading the information by…
Novel hyperkalemia treatments – practical points
I was quite excited to see the development of novel agents to help us manage hyperkalemia in our kidney patients in place of kayexalate, which is extremely unpleasant for patients, is associated with diarrhea and have reported severe…
CKD intercept- A Primary Care Initiative from NKF
Our nation is aging, not always gracefully, and there is a large burden of CKD to manage. 13% of US adults have CKD stages 1-5 with less than 0.5% having stage 4-5 CKD (USRDS 2015 ADR, partially based…
Episode 2 of the Renal Pathology Series
Check out the next installment of Renal Pathology Teaching Series from the Division of Nephrology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Top nephrology-related stories of 2015
What a year 2015 turned out to be. Nephrology social media is beginning to mature with many projects adding to a rich educational experience online. Who needs MOC when you have this! NephJC continues to be one of…
Stop-IgA: Immunosuppression for proteinuric IgA Nephropathy
Despite being the world’s most common form of glomerulonephritis, IgA Nephropathy treatment strategies have hereto been controversial, particularly surrounding the use of immnosuppression on top of traditional RAAS blockade. The long awaited, Intensive Supportive Care plus Immunosuppression in…
Donor smoking and recipient outcomes in kidney transplantation
I evaluated a young kidney donor candidate in clinic a few days ago and although he did not have any obvious medical issues and was an excellent candidate, he has been smoking half-a-pack a day of cigarettes for…
Lazarus Kidney
For my inaugural RFN post, a special case I saw last year with Dr. David Mount and Young-Soo Song a fellow nephrologist in training at BMC. A 74-year-old man with history of HTN, peripheral artery disease, CKD (baseline…
Renal Pathology Series from WashU
Check out the excellent renal clinico-pathology conference series from Tim Yau from the Washington University in St. Louis Division of Nephrology. Follow Tim on Twitter @Maximal_Change. This is a great addition to the kidney blogosphere.