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
“Liquid Biopsy” – measuring cell-free circulating donor DNA to predict allograft rejection
Transplant physicians face the challenge to detect allograft rejection using non-sensitive biomarkers and clinical signs/symptoms. For kidney transplant, serum creatinine, urinalysis for proteinuria or hematuria, are so far used for screening for rejection and/or assessment of graft function….
IgM Nephropathy: What You Need to Know
Similar to my recent post on C1q Nephropathy, IgM Nephropathy (IgMN) is a podocytopathy that is often considered a variant of Minimal Change disease (MCD) or FSGS. Like C1QN, it is also a controversial entity with a lack…
POSEIDON Trial for Contrast Induced Nephropathy: The Next #NephJC
The next Nephrology Twitter Journal Club (@NephJC) will discuss the POSEIDON Trial which has been published in The Lancet. Interest in the prevention of Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) is alive and well with several novel approaches/therapies being recently…
Exams Are Coming
This season’s Game of Thrones finished last night and as a nephrology-themed homage, a trainee from Malaysia, Lee Jun, created this poster during downtime while studying for his exams. Enjoy.
C1q Nephropathy: What You Need to Know
I saw a 20 year old African American male in clinic with nephrotic range proteinuria, reduced GFR and no signs or symptoms of a systemic disease. His mother developed ESRD at age 36 and his brother, aged 26,…
Immortality
A few months ago, a paper was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology that caused a sensation in it’s home country – Denmark. Using registry data, and the diagnosis of non-melanomatous skin cancer as a proxy for…
Unusual transplant immunology case
File this under something that we are never likely to see in clinical practice. In 2002 a fascinating case report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine concerning unusual findings during a work-up for a living…
Hyponatremia Guidelines – NephJC
Tomorrow night will be the 4th edition of the Nephrology Journal Club on twitter.The article this week is unusual – it is a clinical practice guideline for the management of hyponatremia that was published in NDT, the European…
Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation 2014
In the USA in June 2013 the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors approved amendments to the OPTN policy for deceased donor kidney allocation. These ideas have been discussed for the last 9 years and Nate wrote about some of…
Bedside Urinalysis – Blood
All to often now doctors in well-resourced hospitals rely on high tech, expensive and sometimes invasive tests to make a diagnosis. One of the most basic and cheapest tools we have at our disposal is the bedside urine…