Welcome to the 28th 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 18th 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. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying…
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 7th 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…
Welcome to the fifth 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…
Welcome to the first 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 that intrigued the…
As a child growing up in India, I have seen several family members performing ritual fasting. Fasting is a ubiquitous religio-cultural practice that is found, in varying forms, across the world. The month-long Ramadan and Buddhist Lent fasts…
Acute oxalate nephropathy is a rare but well described cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) leading to acute tubular necrosis due to the deposition of calcium oxalate crystals within the tubules. Acute oxalate nephropathy can occur in both…
The MUDPALES mnemonic for raised anion gap acidosis was drilled into me from medical school. However recently after working through each category I became stumped when nothing ticked the box to identify the cause. The lady I had…
The electrolyte bracket contains a mixture of the old staples of nephrology mixed with some new kids on the block trying to muscle in on established territory, Vaptans vs hypertonic saline and ZS-9 vs Kayexalate. Hypertonic saline is…
