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Saturday, May 18, 2019

In the NEWS: New biomarkers for AIN

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Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) is the cause of over 15% cases of acute loss of kidney function Unlike many other causes of acute loss ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Consult Rounds: Heavy Chain Deposition Disease

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Heavy-chain deposition disease (HCDD) is the least common non-organized monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease (MIDD), with close ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Topic Discussion: Newer Gadolinium agents and risk of NSF? is it extinct?

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Gadolinium is known to have an association with Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis(NSF). The first case of this was described in Yale and pub...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

In the NEWS: Credence, Rise of the Nephron Throne

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A positive light at the end of the tunnel for nephrology, the Credence trial just got published this week in NEJM, put the glucoretics on ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Topic Discussion: Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, inotersen and the kidney

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Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis is caused by pathogenic single-nucleotide variants in the gene encoding transthyretin ( TTR ) that in...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Topic Discussion: Why does OncoNephrology matter?

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Cancer affects the kidney in many ways. Education of the cancer specialists is important. Lately I have felt that the "kidney" h...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Consult Rounds: Cisplatin induced AKI, can we predict?

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Cisplatin is a well known nephrotoxic agent. But here is a scenario. You have a 51 y old man with no history of HTN, baseline serum creati...