Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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The potential danger in treating Hypothermia-induced Hypokalemia
The post from Veeraish earlier this week reminded me of this patient who demonstrated an important learning point regarding hypokalemia in hypothermic patients. A 75 year old woman was found unconscious in her unheated home with overnight temperatures…
Renal Jeopardy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are organizing a CME event: “Contoversies in Kidney Disease” aimed at attending nephrologists and fellows on September 13th 2013. This course will cover a broad range of topics of interest to…
Hypothermia Protocol and Dialysis
I recently received an inpatient consultation to see a CKD 5D patient. The reason for consult, as is mostly the case with dialysis patients was that he “needs hemodialysis”. This dialysis patient wasn’t the average bear though. He…
Kidney Stones – What’s the diagnosis? – Answer
This was an interesting case and all those who responded correctly identified that the patient had bowel pathology. However, only one person figured out that the issue was an ileostomy. This patient had a low urine volume and…
Extended High Cut-Off (HCO) Hemodialysis for Myeloma Cast Nephropathy
There has been much recent interest in novel extra-corporeal treatments for removal of nephrotoxic free light chains (FLC) in myeloma cast nephropathy. HCO dialyzers employ high flux membranes with particularly large pores (up to 50kDa Vs 15kDa for…
What are you smoking?
I recently saw an interesting case series published in CJASN where they reported four cases of oliguric AKI associated with synthetic cannabinoids use. Renal biopsy revealed acute tubular injury in three of them and calcium oxalate crystals in…
When should a Liver Transplant Recipient get a Combined Liver Kidney Transplant?
Currently there is huge variation in the number patients receiving a kidney transplant at the time of their liver transplant across the US; Combined Liver Kidney Transplant (CLK). The rate of good quality (standard criteria) kidneys being transplanted…
Kidney Stones – What’s the diagnosis?
A 65yo man was reviewed in the clinic for assessment of kidney stones. He has a history of stones for at least 8 years and has been passing small calculi on a regular basis for the last few…
ASN Annual Meeting Travel Support Opportunities
It’s the time of the year again to start thinking about travel to the ASN annual meeting in Atlanta. Thankfully, in this time of limited travel budgets and sequestration, the ASN offers a number of travel awards that…
Renal Grand Rounds – Case of the month
A young woman with h/o polysubstance abuse and seizures was admitted to hospital with status epilepticus. She was treated with a propofol infusion at 5mg/kg/hr which was maintained due to perceived continuing seizure activity. On hospital day 5,…