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 Function after Off- or On-Pump CABG: CORONARY Trial is next #NephJC
The next Nephrology online journal club (#NephJC) will discuss the results of the CORONARY Trial, presented at the late breaking session at the ASN and published this year in JAMA. The trial compared patients undergoing their first coronary…
Spironolactone Revisited
As a renal fellow, I have found myself reaching for spironolactone more and more. It is very helpful when treating the patient with resistant hypertension, but it continues to be under-utilized. Aside from the renal-centric effects of aldosterone,…
Hyperammonemia – When should we start dialysis?
I would like to discuss a case that I recently saw in renal consult. He was a man in his 60s with history of end stage liver disease who received a liver transplant. His hospital course was complicated…
Tick borne diseases for the nephrologist – Babesiosis
The following few posts are a summary of tick borne illnesses that can cause renal failure and/or electrolyte problems. Babesiosis First identified on Nantucket Island in 1969 and was initially know as Nantucket fever. Endemic areas. CDC map….
The Lone Star Tick
Recently a 65-year-old female was referred to an ED in the state of Missouri complaining of fevers, chills, headache, diarrhea and vomiting occurring over the last week. 3 weeks prior she had received an orthotopic liver transplant. Her…
Courses
A bit of housekeeping here – I noticed that all of our current course announcements were out of date. These have now been updated with the most recent versions of each course including the following courses coming up…
Baclofen in dialysis patients: Just say no!
At our hospital, we started noticing a pattern of admissions among some of our maintenance dialysis patients. In one case, an elderly woman with DM, peripheral arterial disease, and ESRD on thrice weekly hemodialysis was sent to the…
Lithium and the Kidney: Old Observations & New Insights
Lithium is indispensable as an effective treatment for bipolar affective disorder. However, it has a narrow therapeutic index with desired therapeutic levels between 0.6 and 1.2 mEq/L. Lithium is handled by the kidney (responsible for almost all its…
Parvovirus B19 and the Kidney
Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a small, non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus belonging to the Erythrovirus genus, named for their tropism for erythroid precursor cells. It is the only known parvovirus to infect humans. By late adulthood, most people have…
Lessons from the Akita mouse
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of ESRD worldwide. While many attempts have been made to develop reliable animal models that mimic human disease—ob/ob, db/db obese diabetes type 2 diabetes models, NOD1 mice, streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes model…