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Diabetes and CKD: Pitfalls – Monitoring response to therapy
There are two important issues to remember when assessing glucose control in patients ESRD, one relating to immediate blood sugar measurement, and another relating to longer term diabetes control. The first has previously been mentioned on this blog….
Thromboembolic Prophylaxis in Patients with AFib and CKD: Caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
I often get curb-sided by cardiologists and internists for my opinion on using warfarin or other anticoagulants for thromboembolic risk prophylaxis in CKD +/- Afib patients. A similar conundrum of using anticoagulation for stroke prophylaxis in dialysis patients…
Diabetes and CKD – Pitfalls: Cystatin C
Cystatin C has been proposed as an alternative marker of kidney function and studies have shown that CyC is a better predictor of mortality that serum creatinine. Although, when first introduced, it was thought that CyC was not…
Diabetes and CKD – Pitfalls: Estimating GFR
The routine use of estimating equations for GFR has revolutionized the way that we view renal disease over the last 15 years and although some argue that this has lead to overdiagnosis of CKD, I believe that this…
Don’t Eat the Leaves
Hyperoxaluria is an important risk factor for kidney stones, approximately 80% of which are primarily composed of calcium oxalate. Hyperoxaluria is typically diagnosed by performing a 24 hour urine collection and levels above 45 mg/day are considered abnormal…
Plasma Exchange for Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (AAV)?
There has been lots of new data in the AAV literature of late. We have new nomenclature, including the dropping of Freidrich Wegeners name for the more generic but descriptive granulomatosis plus angiitis (GPA), by the Chapel Hill…
Chloride: Queen of the Electrolytes
In June’s edition of JASN Jacques et al. highlighted the emerging importance of the role of chloride in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Their group developed a mouse model that over expressed the protein pendrin in the aldosterone-sensitive region…
Renal transplant across an ABO barrier
A 24 year-old ESRD patient secondary to IgA nephropathy has been on HD for almost one year. His mother is a potential donor for living related kidney transplant. The condition seemed perfect—zero mismatch on HLA, no PRA, no…
Ten Things Every Primary Care Physician Should Know
An article from a few years ago that might provoke some discussion. Some of the recommendations are a little out of date (I don’t think I would target a Hb of 12 anymore in patients with CKD) but…
Hypocalcemia – What’s the diagnosis – Answer
This was an interesting case. A woman with a previous history of hyperparathyroidism and multiple neck surgeries who developed severe, symptomatic hypocalcemia 3 hours following a parathyroidectomy was thought to have failed because of a persistently elevated PTH…