Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Top nephrology-related stories of 2014
Another year has come and gone. 2014 featured some novel therapies for hyperkalemia and the notable failure of the SYMPLICITY-3 trial for renal denervation in resistant hypertension. ASN Kidney Week continues to grow and each year includes more…
Tacrolimus Formulations
Tacrolimus comes in oral, intravenous and topical formulations. Prograf is the most commonly used oral tacrolimus formulation and is dosed twice daily. Prograf pharmacokinetics Absorption: Absorption occurs in the small intestine. Drug levels reach a maximum concentration in…
The future of nephrology training: A fellow’s perspective
Much is being said about the steady and dramatic decline in applications to nephrology training programs. The recent match shows a continuation of this trend: 67.9 percent of offered positions filled, leaving 50% of US programs unfilled on…
Effects of Intensive Low-Salt Diet Education on Albuminuria: CJASN e-Journal Club
This month’s CJASN e-journal club was hosted at the Department of Nephrology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. It discussed a trial designed to investigate the efficacy of an intensive low salt diet intervention (weekly 30 minutes phone feedback…
SHROOM3, Making sense of GWAS risk alleles
In this months edition of JCI a group led by Dr B Murphy from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describe a beautiful set of experiments that explain the mechanism by which the CKD and eGFR risk…
Vote for the Top Nephrology Stories of 2014
This is the 5th year RFN has hosted the Top Nephrology Stories of the year poll. This is an attempt to look at the year in nephrology voted by the readers of RFN. Take a few moments and…
A cause and a cure of hyperkalemia? The next #NephJC
There has been a flurry of publications in the field of hyperkalemia with 3 separate trials of oral potassium binding agents within a week of each other (Sodium Zirconium in JAMA, and NEJM and Patiromer in NEJM) and…
Creatininase
There was a fascinating case published a couple of months ago in the American Journal of Medicine. I have a particular interest in this case as it was my clinic mentor, Julian Seifter, who made the diagnosis and…
Edelman is the Root of Almost All Good in Nephrology
Almost all the formulas we use in the management of the disorders of water homeostasis are derived from the Edelman equation. I am presenting where these formulas come from for the math aficionados. Edelman equation · Original…
SEVERE CHRONIC HYPONATREMIA: A Pathophysiological Rumination.
[This is the final post in the five-part series covering some important and often overlooked (and under-published) issues and concepts in the management of severe hyponatremia. While this is not, by any means, an exhaustive discussion of the…