eJournal Club
This month’s eJournal club concerns early initiation and withdrawal from dialysis in Canada. Over the last 20 years, there has been a move towards starting people on dialysis earlier, at least when this is defined in terms of…
International Update on Glomerular Disease
On April 27th 2013, a course on glomerular disease will take place at the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. This course is being organized by Dr Kenar Jhaveri who is well known to the blogging…
Keeping up with the Neighbours
These days, the proliferation of medical journals makes it difficult to keep up with all the changes in our field. There are a number of means that people employ to manage their reading. I personally use google reader…
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…
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…
Who reads the Renal Fellow Network?
Thanks to everyone who responded to our readership poll. We have seen a large increase in traffic to the site over the last year and it is important to know who your audience is. It was interesting to…
Visitor Poll
Every once in a while we like to get an idea of who our audience is. As a result, we have started a poll which will remain open for the next 7 days. The website was originally started…