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Image of the Month - 2 by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 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 pa ... Read on »

Home Dialysis University by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 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 ... Read on »

Image of the Month by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 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 func ... Read on »

Diabetic Nephropathy, or not? by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure A man in his 30s with a history of type 1 DM and chronic hypokalemia was referred to the renal clinic for investigation of CKD. His creatinine was 1.8g mg/dl. ... Read on »

Phosphorous Binder Equivalent Dose by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Ever encountered this situation? You're going about your daily business and discover that one of your patients on hemodialysis has an elevated phosphorous. You ... Read on »

Top nephrology-related stories of 2012 by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure It's hard to believe another year has come and gone. 2012 proved to be a year of ups and downs in the nephrology community. Large clinical trials from the failed pha ... Read on »

Who reads the Renal Fellow Network? by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 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 yo ... Read on »

Poll: Top Nephrology-Related Stories of 2012 by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure We would appreciate your vote for the top nephrology-related stories of 2012. Take a second and click any of the answers on the right hand side of the screen that yo ... Read on »

Visitor Poll by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 1) In diabetic glomerular disease you can see linear staining of GBMs with IgG, Kappa and Lambda. 2) The three C3 immunoflourescence patterns of post strep GN 1) ... Read on »

Fruit Flies and Kidney Stones by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Developing accurate animal models of human diseases is a well-established research goal but a recent paper reporting a new animal model of nephrolithiasis caught my atte ... Read on »

Image of the Month - Pathology by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure A 60 year-old woman with a longstanding history of hypertension, scleroderma and MGUS presented to the emergency room with diarrhea, vomiting and AKI (creatinine increas ... Read on »

Mg & K by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure It is well known that hypokalemia does not correct easily if it is accompanied by hypomagnesemia. A medical student I met looked into this topic and found ... Read on »

CNS mass and crystals after kidney transplantation by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure A gentleman with ESRD secondary to polycystic kidney disease comes in with vomiting and headache eight months after kidney transplantation. Brain MRI shows a small s ... Read on »

eJournal Club - Albuminuria and AKI by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure This month’s eJournal club concerns biomarkers of AKI. There has been considerable interest in developing novel biomarkers of AKI and CKD and a lot of effort h ... Read on »

Pearls for Boards by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 1) Icodextrin sometimes causes a desquamating rash on the palms and soles. 2) Sirolimus , five side effects to watch 1) Poor wound healing 2) Lung toxicity 3) H ... Read on »

Aquaretics and PCKD by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure One of the big stories at the ASN this year was the announcement of the results of the TEMPO trial which were simultaneously published in NEJM. It has been kno ... Read on »

Miracle Drug - Part 2 by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure In a previous post , we discussed the dangers of subgroup analyses. Specifically, performing increasing numbers of post-hoc subgroup analyses increases the risk o ... Read on »

Pearls for Boards by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 1) Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease breakdown - 80 to 90% LCDD, 10 to 20% LHCDD, <5% HCDD. 2) Small studies suggest tamoxifen and steroids may be of ... Read on »

Does that taste bad? - Part 2 by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Following on from yesterday's post about turtles who may have a taste of urine in their mouths, here's an interesting historical diversion about doctors who, in th ... Read on »

Does that taste bad? by Matt S. Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Better known as a delicacy in the Far East, the Chinese softshell turtle has generated some interest in the Nephrology world because of its unusual means of urea elimi ... Read on »

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