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1000th Post
In celebration of our 1000th post, we asked Matt Sparks. a former editor of the Renal Fellow Network who is now a faculty member at Duke University in North Carolina for his perspective on his time with this…
Differentiation Syndrome
I was recently rounding on a gentleman in the ICU with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) who, after starting induction therapy with tretinoin (all-trans retinoic acid), developed fever, hypotension, new pulmonary infiltrates with associated respiratory failure and AKI requiring…
Pearls for Boards
1) Isopropyl alcohol does NOT cause an elevated anion gap acidosis, retinal toxicity (as does methanol), or renal failure (as does ethylene glycol). 2) Fibril diameter of the more common fibrillary diseases – Amyloid, Fibrillary GN, and Immunotactoid GP – is correlated…
Nephrology Boards Study Strategy Post-Mortem
So after many months and a few intensive weeks of study the nephrology boards are now in the record books and I thought I’d examine what worked and didn’t work in my study efforts. If you’re part of…
eJournal Club – Kidney Biopsies
This month’s eJournal Club concerns a paper (with an accompanying editorial) reporting the experience of renal biopsies in Norway. One issue that arises again and again is whether or not patients should undergo outpatient biopsies. The argument against…
Bardoxolone – The final chapter?
Sometimes when something appears too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Last year, a paper was published in the NEJM reporting a preliminary study of bardoxolone for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. At…
Annual Bloggers Night at ASN
Fellows, students, physicians, faculty, patients, nurses, technicians, nutritionists, pharmacists, social workers and interested others… Please join us and the rest of the nephrology blogging world at next month’s ASN meeting for the Annual Bloggers Night! Time: Friday November…
Honey for the Achilles Heel
In the PD literature, peritonitis has been referred to as an Achilles’ heel because it could lead to catheter removal and PD treatment failure. Topical antibiotics have been used for prevention of an exit site infection (ESI) which…
Peripheral Vascular Disease and CKD
Seminars in Dialysis this month have published an excellent review of the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular disease in patients with CKD. This is something that we deal with on a regular basis in the clinic and…
CKD Guidelines
AJKD this month has an extended editorial section on the KDOQI guidelines for CKD. It is now 10 years since these guidelines were introduced and their impact on nephrology has been significant, not least due to the fact…