On Tuesday, March 2 from 8am- 6:45pm EST, this exciting virtual conference from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) will highlight recent major advances and best practices in the treatment and care of kidney disease, dialysis, transplantation, and organ…
Welcome to the 13th 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…
One in every 10 cases of chronic kidney disease (CKD) may be attributable to a single gene mutation. Read that again. One in every 10 cases. Wow. That was a shock to me. It took me a few…
I recently saw a patient in clinic with long-standing hematuria with numerous family members on her mother’s side with hematuria. She now presented with proteinuria but stable renal function. Collagen IVa disease was highly suspected and genetic sequencing…
One of our attendings, Dr. Sylvia Betcher, PhD, MD gave an excellent presentation at our renal conference about genetic testing in renal diseases that she learned about at #KidneyWeek2015. There were so many good things I liked about…
In this months edition of JCI a group led by Dr B Murphy from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describe a beautiful set of experiments that explain the mechanism by which the CKD and eGFR risk…
At this year’s ASN Kidney Week in Philadelphia Andrey Shaw, MD, presented the inaugural Michelle P Winn Endowed Lectureship. Dr Shaw was not only a longtime collaborator of Michelle’s but also a very close personal friend making him…
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of ESRD worldwide. While many attempts have been made to develop reliable animal models that mimic human disease—ob/ob, db/db obese diabetes type 2 diabetes models, NOD1 mice, streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes model…
It is fair to say that unless you a nephrologist practicing in Cyprus you are unlikely to ever see a case of CFHR5 (Complement factor H related protein 5) nephropathy. It does however give an insight into the…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are large population based collaborative studies seeking genetic patterns that would explain common complex phenotypes. These large studies have given us much insight into the genetic risk profile of patients with diseases such as…
