“It will burn for a few seconds, then become numb…” Sound familiar? That’s how I describe the local infiltration of lidocaine to patients. ...

This weeks Kidney International's Whats your diagnosis section discusses a case of Diethylene glycol poisoning. ( image courtesy on lef...

What is Belatacept and is it going to change the face of transplantation? Its a fusion protein composed of components of  TLA-4, extracellul...

Please see the link from an excellent website tool: Nephrology on Demand. I encourage all to use it. It has latest information and classic n...

After several weeks of ACEI or ARB use, the plasma aldosterone levels return to pretreatment levels in 40% of patient. What is this phenom...

We discussed a review article during our transplant clinic morning session about Luminex technology for HLA antibody detection in organ tra...

Recent issue of JASN talks about this interesting topic. Alas, more classifications to add to our terminology.  This one might be useful. T...