Welcome to the 30th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 50-odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. These are actual cases (without patient identifying information)…
Welcome to the 29th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 50-odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. Written by: Alessandra Rader Visual Abstract & Infographics:…
Welcome to the 27th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of 50-odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for the Renal Fellow Network. These are actual cases (without patient identifying information)…
From the early physiology courses in Medical School, everyone learns to be wary of rapidly correcting serum sodium in the event of hyponatremia if its duration is chronic or unknown. But was this concern always present? In the…
Welcome to the 12th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of forty+ nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying information) that intrigued…
Welcome to the 11th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of twenty -odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying…
Welcome to the 6th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of twenty odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying information) that…
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by caloric restriction and pathologic behaviors to achieve weight loss, such as excessive exercising, dieting, or purging (e.g. abuse of laxatives or diuretics, surreptitious vomiting). Patients with bulimia nervosa engage in purging behaviors and…
Most of us go to sleep and wake up around the same time every day, even on the weekends when we try to sleep in. When we change our schedule to either wake up earlier or because we…
A recent renal consult I encountered was a Cantonese gentleman with a classical symptomatic history for Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis (HPP). He presented with a serum K of 1.4 mmol/l and profound weakness. Initially beginning in his teenage years,…
