Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
Want to write a case report? RFN has you covered with a list of journals to choose from
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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
Ultrasound Course for Nephrologists
Continuing our practice of highlighting excellent courses for Nephrologists and Fellows, here is a message from Professor W. Charles O’Neill regarding the annual Ultrasound for Nephrologists Course at Emory University this October. The course brochure and application form…
Hypocalcemia – What’s the Diagnosis?
A 36yr old woman with a history of PCKD was referred for surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism. She had a history of two prior failed kidney transplants following which she had been on dialysis for more than 10 years….
eJournal Club – Session length and weight gain
This month’s eJournal club concerns a paper published by a fellow from our institution that attempts to get to the bottom of an interesting question: in patients with a high interdialytic weight gain (IDWG), is the dialysis session…
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…