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
FOAMed
Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Pearls for Boards
1) Surreptitious vomiting or diuretic abuse – metabolic alkalosis, Laxative abuse – non-gap metabolic acidosis. 2) Aquaporin 2 – apical membrane of collecting duct, Aquaporins 3 and 4 – basolateral membrane of collecting duct, Aquaporin 1 – proximal tubule….
Lupus Foundation of America Grant
The Lupus Foundation of America is proud to announce its new Career Development Award RFA. The purpose is to facilitate the professional development of nephrology, dermatology, and rheumatology fellows, in the U.S. and Canada, interested in lupus research towards a…
eJournal Club – Hemodiafiltration
A few years ago, a unit that I worked at started using hemodiafiltration (HDF) routinely for the first time. Prior to starting our patients, we visited another unit where they had been using HDF for a few years…
Falsification Analysis
Interesting paper this month in JAMA about post-marketing studies of adverse drug effects. Randomized controlled trials are obviously the gold standard for the detection of common adverse events related to treatment. The problem is that, if an adverse…
A Gel Coating Your Hairy Endothelium
To follow up on one of Nate’s posts from 2010, hair grows not only on your skin. He describes a glomerular capillary to be hairy. Glycocalyx, a hairy structure attached to the glomerular endothelium, is a mixture of…
Image of the Month – 2
A man in his 50s with a history of diabetes, renal stones, gastric bypass surgery and CKD stage III/IV presented to the clinic with fevers, chills and vague abdominal pain. A urine culture was positive for E Coli…
Home Dialysis University
The dates and locations for this year’s Home Dialysis University for Fellows have been released. This is a series of courses on home HD and PD aimed at graduating fellows that is sponsored by the ISPD. You can…
Image of the Month
The renal services were consulted on a man in his late 70s with a distant history of colon cancer, recent pneumonia and NSTEMI, for investigation of worsening renal function. He had sub-nephrotic range proteinuria (2-3 g/24 hours) and…
Diabetic Nephropathy, or not?
A man in his 30s with a history of type 1 DM and chronic hypokalemia was referred to the renal clinic for investigation of CKD. His creatinine was 1.8g mg/dl. His DM was well controlled without any evidence…
Phosphorous Binder Equivalent Dose
Ever encountered this situation? You’re going about your daily business and discover that one of your patients on hemodialysis has an elevated phosphorous. You skim through the list of prerequisites and see that yes, the nutritionist has been…